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Microsoft Security Essentials
Thursday, October 01st, 2009 | Author:

I’ve recommended other free anti-virus programs in the past but here’s the new one from Microsoft, and it’s about time in my opinion. Like Microsoft products or not, you must admit that something that they’re the right ones to write an essential tool that needs to integrate directly into the OS. I’ve been using the beta for a while now and it’s now out in a final version for everyone. So, tired of paying for AV? Looking for something that does both AV and anti-malware? Give Microsoft Security Essentials a try.

MSE

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Finally, free anti-virus for libraries
Monday, May 18th, 2009 | Author:

I’ve been playing for the last week with Panda Cloud Antivirus and so far I’m impressed. It works differently than your standard AV program as it relies on the cloud for continuing updates and has a very small memory footprint. Additionally, and maybe more importantly, I can find nothing on the Web site that indicates that a library would be breaking a license agreement for using it. (As happens with many other AV programs with both free and pay-for versions.) Check out this video from Panda for a more complete description and they try ditching that expensive AV subscription.

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Additional notes: Panda Cloud Antivirus will not install on 64-bit versions of Windows. Also, be sure to uninstall any other AV programs before installing this one. (In fact, on my computers this installation even uninstalled my old AV program for me, but you should make sure first.) Lastly, be sure to subscribe to the blog after you become a user.

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