Hey everyone! I finally made it. Yep, “Charlie” does exist. Since I have been receiving quite a bit of crap from everyone else at Sector 930, I figured I’d better get to posting before they kick me out.
And what better topic to start with than that of antivirus solutions?
Like some of my comrades here, I am essentially a life-long Mac user. I started using the Mac OS back in the good-ole-days of System 7. Although my MacBook equipped with OS 10.5 is still my computing platform of choice, I still use/operate several other systems including Windows XP and FreeBSD.
And that, of course, is where antivirus comes into play.
It’s another Saturday night in nerdville…
I’m sitting in my basement, basking in the glow of 5 LCD screens, typing away on one of two IBM Model-M keyboards at my workstation. After installing VMware server on my quad-core PC, along with a new Windows 2000 virtual machine, I’m ready to download a high quality, free antivirus app for my new VM. Immediately my brain says, “Duh! To http://free.grisoft.com!” … And then I remember that AVG 8 is upon us. Woe is me.
I’ve always used AVG (free) for my Windows-based antivirus needs. Up through version 7.5, it has been a great solution. But Grisoft really blew it on version 8. Besides the Firefox browser plugin plauged with incompatibilities, and the option for an annoying toolbar, the interface is sluggish, ugly, and bloated. Sure, you can jump through a bunch of hoops to remove all the extra crap, but you’re still left with something that sucks more than its predecessor.
avast! to the rescue?
In a desperate search to find some kind of decent, free, and efficient antivirus solution, I’m biting the bullet and giving avast! antivirus a try. Beyond AVG and Norton/Symantec (barf), I am pretty much completely inexperienced when it comes to all the other AV apps on the market these days.
At this point, all I have done is install avast!, so I’m not quite ready to make any comments or dole out any criticism. We’ll save that for the next post. Until then,
73!
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