Seem to be doing a bit of ‘family Windows PC’ support at the moment. Have dished out copies of AVG Anti-Virus to people, plus running spyware checks. One of these was my little brother, who has been running a non-virus-protected PC for some time and it has “started doing strange things”: I’ve given him a CD with AVG, Adaware, Spybot etc. on it. I also included Firefox and OpenOffice, for good measure. If you’re listening, have you cleaned your system yet, AJE?
Also upgraded AVG for the in-laws. Their PC was completely clean, albeit old and ridiculously slow (Cyrix 120MHz processor, 48MB RAM etc.). Oh, and dial-up networking. Doesn’t that feel slow when you’ve been away from it for a while!
2005 Resolution: Must try to promote free software more this year.
Before Christmas I got an email from someone who is using my colordiff program: he talks about it on his web site, which makes it feel like a ‘real’ program. Which of course, it is, but it’s nice to hear. With the release of Debian’s new stable release, Sarge, some time this year, colordiff will be included in the default package repository, which will be good.
I’ve stopped promoting AVG in favour of ClamWin these days – it’s open source as well as free, and has good scheduling for scans and updates, although it doesn’t do ‘realtime’ scanning… yet.
I made the change mainly because AVG won’t let Non-Profit Organisations use their free version, and I needed a free solution.
PermalinkI had the same thought re free and Free, but the requirement for real-time scanning swung it in the end. This is personal use, so the licensing isn’t an issue here. However, once Clam has the required features, a switch will be in order 🙂
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