[RESOLVED] What Anti-Virus can I use that is free?

[Medianox]

I heard Norton 2001 antivirus does not work.
Any free stuff I can use?

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[ad3p4]

You heard wrong.

Symantec (http://www.symantec.com/), Trend Micro (http://www.antivirus.com/), McAfee (http://www.mcafee.com/), Sophos (http://www.sophos.com/) and Kaspersky Labs (http://www.kaspersky.com/) offer online scanning for or trial versions. I would recommend them in the order that they appear here, but that is a personal choice.

These companies spend a lot of time tweaking their products. Most are excellent, none are bad. Give them a try, but plan on buying one soon - consider it insurance http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum1/noncgi/cwmsmilies/cwm1.gif

As for free products, I found this link: WebAttack (http://www.webattack.com/Freeware/security/fwvirus.shtml),

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[Darren Wilson]

<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva" size="2">Originally posted by Medianox:
I heard Norton 2001 antivirus does not work.
Any free stuff I can use?

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I have posted this a few times now Norton 2001 DOES work if you download & install the latest SYMEVNT.EXE (ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/symevnt/sevinst.exe) from Symantec. I was using it myself ubder XP Pro OEM until recently when I upgraded it to 2002 (for free as if I had to buy the upgrade I would have stuck with 2001).

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[Cobra]

NAV 2002 does work and it works quite nicely. I'd recommend it over 2001 any day.

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[Pendragon]

AVG-Free works with XP Pro, download the latest version from www.grisoft.com (http://www.grisoft.com) XP will complain about compatability problems but if you have the latest version it's OK, I know this because I contacted AVG about the XP warning and they emailed me to say that AVG-Free "IS" compatable with XP... And as the name suggests it is free to the private user.

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Regards Steve Morrish...

you gotta be crazy, you gotta have a real need....

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[Dj_Xtasy]

Get Morpheus and search for Norton Antivirus 2001.. you will get someone that has it for free..

[Vette2000]

Like ad3p4 said thise seem to be the best free trial programs out there(in pretty good order I might add!). If you ever get in a jam with a virus that disables your antivirus or stops you from accessing these sites, or your on site and the customer has not updated their antivirus since 1883, try
http://housecall.antivirus.com it's helped me MANY times and it's a lot faster than updating their stuff for them!.....
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