When I give speeches I usually begin with telling my audience that nothing is free.
Well it turns out that almost nothing is free.
My wife’s computer needed a tuneup and she asked a geek friend to come over and check out the problems. The first thing he did was to strip out the Norton program, which she had paid $35 a year for, and installed Avast.
Its free for home use, but if you are a business you have to pay for it.
He explained that Avast is better than the for sale programs and is less intrusive.
I too installed Avast on my PC and love it.
This is what CNET (you can download at the site) had in part to say about it: Avast Free 5, an A-list freeware antivirus app, provides the same steadfast protection of well-known, pricier antivirus programs. Avast is remarkable for both its effectiveness and arguably providing the most complete free antivirus on the market.
“Avast Free 5, formerly known as the Home Edition, protects you with multiple guards. The antivirus, antispyware, and heuristics engines form a security core that also includes multiple real-time shields. The adjustable mail and file system shields join the pre-existing behavior, network, instant messaging, peer-to-peer, and Web shields.”
