Re: Anti-virus Software

From: Moon (Moon_at_noretreathome.com)
Date: 10/22/03 

Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 02:21:34 -0500

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:55:46 +0100, "Paladin"
<sirgruffil@NOSPAM.yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>I know it's an old chestnut, but what are people's thoughts on the best
>anti-virus solution? I've tried Norton and McAfee, but don't like the way
>they try to take over your whole machine. Is AVG (Grisoft) any good?

I have been using Panda, I would recommend it to anyone. Uses very
little system resources, and updates itself twice daily. Moon

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