Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: felix_unger Newsgroups: aus.computers Subject: Re: anti-virus Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:25:02 +1100 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net G7rb7JDJirn4Tm72z2LIIAJUFRncIvSXC3KNmPE+QMElgUAoNT Cancel-Lock: sha1:IB3hNJc+1vb1nqrD/hZ4aK9yOk4= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com aus.computers:48615 On 29-October-2015 5:45 AM, Rod Speed wrote: > felix_unger wrote >> Is Avast better than AVG? (both free versions) > > Nope. > The only real downside with AVG is that its VERY > aggressive about installing the trial. Even if you > keep telling it to install the free one, it still installs > the trial and then when you uninstall trial because > its installed it ignoring what you told it to install, > it then offers to convert it to the free one. > That means that its not ideal to recommend to the average naive user > for that reason. that's all wrong. you can just download and install the free one and keep using it, as I've always done -- rgds, Pete ------- "When tolerance becomes a one-way street it leads to cultural suicide" -Col. Allen West http://thereligionofpeace.com http://pamelageller.com/ http://ausnet.info/islam/lakemba.html "No need for concern. Only 5-10% of muslims are extremists. In 1940 only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How did that turn out?" "ISIS's actions represent no faith, least of all the Muslim faith" -Barack Obama, idiotic President of the USA