Looking for the Right Antivirus
Looking for the Right Antivirus, Part V | Best Antivirus of 2006!
The series has reached the end of the road. I've made my decision about the Best Antivirus Product of 2006.
For those of you coming late to this party, over the last six months or so the newsletter has pursued an ongoing series on alternative antivirus packages. Back in December 2005 I wrote that I'd given up on Norton Antivirus and had been testing alternativeantivirus utilities since the summer of 2005.
During the last year of testing, I've examined a wide range of antivirus product, and I've explored the features and options of many others. Products tested during this period include Avast 4.6 free and 4.7 Pro, AVG 7.1 Pro and Network Editions, BitDefender 9 Standard and 10 RC1, CA EZ Antivirus and eTrust Antivirus r8, F-Secure Anti-Virus 2006 and Internet Security 2006, Kaspersky 5 and 6, Nod32 2.5, Panda Titanium 2006 and Platinum 2006, and ZoneAlarm Antivirus. I've considered the features and specs of at least a dozen other products and rejected them because something didn't meet my ideal antivirus criteria.
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Scot's Newsletter written by Scot Finnie who describes it thusly:
Scot’s Newsletter covers Windows, broadband, do-it-yourself networking, Microsoft, and the Internet. You'll get insights, analysis, hardware and software reviews, explanations, tips, and straight-shooting advice about desktop computing issues today, and tomorrow. It's information about Windows and broadband you can really use.
The focus of Scot's article is finding the right antivirus app for your computer. Talk to ten different people and you'll get ten different answers why they're using any antivirus app - see what Scot has to say and find out what he runs on his 2.0GHz Centrino Lenovo ThinkPad.
He's looking pretty smug in the photo above - maybe he's right. Dunno, I'm going to continue using Grisoft's Free AVG for a few reasons. It seems to do the job effectively. They've updated the gui to make it easier to run. And being tight with my money, I like that it is freeware.
