Re: UAC prevents Norton installation

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:37:03 -0400, "JamesJ"
<jjy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is there free Anti-Virus Software?


There are several free anti-virus programs. The best of them, in my
view, is Avast, which you can get at http://www.avast.com/

But I completely disagree with the statement in this thread that said
"if you haven`t paid for it , don`t install it ; it will take over
your computer . ( Free programs are much better ) ." Although many of
the commercial anti-virus programs are very poor (Norton and McAfee,
for example), not all of them are. In my view, the best anti-virus
program is NOD32, which is *not* free.

Avast is a good product, and there aren't many that are better than
it. But NOD32 is.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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