[pchelpers] Article:INQ Guide to free anti-virus software

Windows for Doughnuts Free anti-virus
By Liam Proven:  Wednesday, 03 October 2007, 5:25 PM

THIS IS ONE of the most critical components of the setup of any PC
today. A machine doesn't need to be on the Web to be at risk; there are
decades-old viruses that can still spread by disk transfer, and new ones
that can infect USB thumbdrives.

Direct infection across local-area networks is also a common problem;
someone takes a laptop outside the company LAN, picks up something nasty
in an Internet Café, later on reconnects in the office and the bug is on
the rampage.

Companies such as Symantec and McAfee make good money selling anti-virus
solutions, both to big businesses and to home users. If you buy a new PC
from one of the big vendors, it's quite likely to come with some kind of
anti-virus preloaded, but all too often, it's only a trial or
demonstration version, and after a month or three it will stop working.
Generally, the program still runs but it no longer gets updated
definitions.

A common misconception is that an anti-virus program will protect
against spyware too. Most do not. We'll look at anti-spyware in a later
article.

More here:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/03/free-anti-virus-programs-tested

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John Durham
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