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diyAudio Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: The Netherlands
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I am using Antivir from www.free-av.com for quite some time now and it is a good program. To my astonishment I had 3 worms on my pc that weren't detected by Norton Antivirus 2003 ( yes, I updated it that day ). It also doesn't slow down the machine the way Norton does. I installed Antivir on several machines from friends, good practice when MSBlaster was roaming the web. I still can't understand people having broadband internet and no virus-protection 
Straight and simple, what else do you want ? One might argue about the GUI but I don't ( still that NT 4 heritage ). No need for filling in name and adress and so on, no registration required.
You do need to configure it however, something one tends to forget. Tests showed criticism towards the config pages. Antivir has 2 configuration pages that can have different settings. Rightclick on the icon in the taskbar for configuring the On-access part of the scanner ( the one that monitors reading and writing of files ) and choose Action-Wipe infected file. Now open the program itself and click Options-Configuration-Repair-Delete without prompt ( is the most effective one and it will not ask for confirmation which comes handy it the machine is infected with more than 1 virus ). Please check all available options, you'll like the possibility of scanning for dialers and /or Possible Malicious Software ( i.e. spyware ). With the options checked as described new infections won't have a chance for touching your precious files 
Another good free one is Avast from www.avast.com.
For removing spyware in an effective way ( with a nice GUI and more features ) there is Adaware from www.lavasoft.de. Of course they can be installed both.
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