Free antivirus

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Everyone's heard of the Melissa e-mail virus by now ( 4/6/99 ). There's also the mutations of
Melissa - present and Future versions - plus the CIH virus (which can wipe out your hard drive) and hundreds of other viruses, trojan horses and worms...
I've found some FREE help listed below.

InoculateIT Personal Edition - Free for personal use, catches and kills such viruses as boot sector and file viruses plus the macro viruses (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). Free registration at http://antivirus.cai.com (Computer Associates) gets you free updates and tech support.

AVG Anti-Virus - Also Free. A strong anti-virus program with good documentation. It can run constantly in the background or can be scheduled to scan at intervals of your choosing. It has heuristic analysis to detect unknown viruses, worms, and Trojan horses as well as online updates.

F-Prot Anti-Virus - Free for personal use, F-PROT detects and cleans viruses from a variety of operating systems. Documentation is included.

Virus scanner/killer - FREEWARE from Norton (Symantec). I have Norton AntiVirus version 4.0 so I haven't tried the freeware version which I stumbled upon recently while searching for information on CIH...

Housecall - is a FREE online service available to all Web users. They will scan your PC and destroy any viruses. There's nothing to download or install.

Attention: the CIH virus, which is dormant till the 26th of any month, must be contained before it can be removed - this can be done with a special download. The instructions are included on the same page as the file.

If you are looking for a list of recent viruses and information on current viruses click here.

Sometimes I get email from people I know warning me about viruses. Sometimes these warnings are about viruses that don't exist. For info on virus hoaxes click here.

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