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Active Virus Shield Rode Off into the Sunset

15.Aug.07 | 6 Comments

Don’t you just hate it when you find something that you like and have been recommending has been quietly discontinued?
While on vacation, I noticed the computer that my folks have was a bit out of date with antivirus — to the point where it wasn’t updating signature files anymore. Unfortunately, I ran out of time [...]

Active Virus Shield

01.Jun.07 | 9 Comments

Over the past couple years, I’ve mentioned a few different free antivirus options. We’ve talked about Avast, AVG and Antivir. All have their pros and cons.
For family and friends I typically go with the Free AVG if they don’t have it on more than one machine at home. If you do, you [...]

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