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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While on vacation, I noticed the computer that my folks have was a bit out of date with antivirus — to the point where it wasn’t updating signature files anymore.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 [...]
OneCare Tanks Test
03.Mar.07 | Leave a Comment
PC World has an article up titled, “Microsoft OneCare Last in Anti-Virus Tests.” It would seem that OneCare fell way behind the other 16 competitors in recent AV-Comparatives testing (source of the report in PDF format).
I bought a license for OneCare two weeks ago — got the beta testers deal. Covers 3 computers [...]
I have a dream…
19.Aug.06 | 1 Comment
Ok, here’s what I’m looking for. I’m sure it must exist, please feel free to leave comments!
Prelude
From time to time I take on side jobs that aren’t development related at all. Instead, they are the kind of job best described as “OMG our PC runs really really slow please make it better!” [...]
AVG Free, What the heck is this?
18.Aug.06 | 4 Comments
My beta of Microsoft Windows Live OneCare recently expired. In general, I liked it. Did what it needed to do and didn’t seem very intrusive. The backup stuff and what-not was quite nice as well. Even the pricing was nice. But I’m cheap, so I let it expire and switched [...]
