antivirus help

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miker wrote:

> a desktop and two laptops networked together running xp.belonging to
> university students. what is the best way to protect without costing
> my first born son??many many thanks from concerned dad

You can use free antivirus on each machine such as AVG or Avast. I use
F-Prot AV on my Windows machines - $30 for single-user license (yearly)
and you can put it on 4 machines.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

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I use Trend on all my machines, it's a little more expensive than free, but
has never let me down, has a very nice firewall and is supported. They sell
3 copies on their site for $89, www.trendmicro.com

"miker" <miker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>a desktop and two laptops networked together running xp.belonging to
> university students. what is the best way to protect without costing my
> first
> born son??many many thanks from concerned dad

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From: "miker" <miker@discussions.microsoft.com>

| a desktop and two laptops networked together running xp.belonging to
| university students. what is the best way to protect without costing my first
| born son??many many thanks from concerned dad


AVAST -
http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1016.html - FREE

AntiVir -
http://www.free-av.com/ - FREE

AVG -
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 - FREE

CA eTrust -
http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/index.cfm - FREE for one year.
{ Free offer extended indefinitely }


CA eTrust is the best of the above and you can get the complete security suite (actually
bundled software), Anti Virus, FireWall and Anti Spyware.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

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"Malke" <invalid@not-real.com> wrote in message
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> miker wrote:
>
> > a desktop and two laptops networked together running xp.belonging to
> > university students. what is the best way to protect without costing
> > my first born son??many many thanks from concerned dad
>
> You can use free antivirus on each machine such as AVG or Avast. I use
> F-Prot AV on my Windows machines - $30 for single-user license (yearly)
> and you can put it on 4 machines.
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Actually, it covers 5 computers for the home version ($29)
http://www.f-prot.com/products/prices/price_win_persona...

or you can get the corp. version for $49 that covers 10 and will
scan network drives as well. (I just got the corp version since
Malke seemed to like it so well and their tech support actually
responds to questions !!! )

mikey