Computer Corner
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009Fraudulent Antivirus programs alert.
Recently there have been some evolving antivirus programs that trap you into buying their shoddy services and report inaccurately that you have a virus on your system. The primary of these is Antivirus 2009 aka; Antivirus XP, Antivirus 2008 and Antivirus 2010. Please be very cautious about installing anything that does not look trustworthy on your system.
Good Free Antivirus Programs.
AVG antivirus is a nice small antivirus to run to keep your system protected. It can be downloaded from free.grisoft.com.
Avast antivirus is another. It can be downloaded from www.avast.com.
A nice open source package is Spyware Terminator. This bundle includes Clam antivirus which was designed for use on Linux machines and is very capable on windows machines. Plus since it is open source it is okay to license on your business computers. Download from www.spywareterminator.com.