Internet Tips: Free Antivirus: Finally Ready for Prime Time

By Scott Spanbauer, PCW Print Nov 25, 2003 1:00 AM

Gratis Antivirus

Alwil Avast 4 Home Edition: VB100 and ICSA certified, on-access and on-demand scanning, e-mail scanning for Outlook and POP3/SMTP, automatic updates, e-mail technical support, 7.1MB.

Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus System: VB100 and ICSA certified, on-access and on-demand scanning, e-mail scanning for Outlook and Outlook Express, automatic updates, 5.7MB.

H+BEDV Datentechnik AntiVir Personal Edition: ICSA certified, on-access and on-demand scanning but no e-mail scanning, automatic updates (after fairly significant configuration effort), 3.8MB.

Softwin BitDefender Free Edition Version 7: Uses same scanning engine as the VB100- and ICSA-certified Standard Edition, on-access and on-demand scanning but no e-mail scanning, automatic updates, 8.8MB.

Send your questions and tips to nettips@spanbauer.com. We pay $50 for published items. You'll find more Internet Tips here. Scott Spanbauer is a contributing editor for PC World.

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