[ale] [OT] good FREE windisease anti-virus software

[Richard Bronosky]

If she uses Comcast she has free access to McAffee.

On 2/12/10, m-aaron-r <aaron at pd.org> wrote:
> My friend Lili called me yesterday, desperately seeking
> technical advice on reviving her dysfunctional windisease
> Xcrement Pile EEE netbook.
>
> The machine was hanging in the middle of the OS startup, so I
> calmed her frazzled nerves by assuring her it was most likely a
> windisease corruption that could be fixed with [ram]disk wipe
> and a system re-iinstall.  While my happy perpetual mantra is
> "I don't do windows",  I was able to connect her with my friend
> Sukru at the Stargate Computer repair shop near Emory (North
> Decatur and Clairmont). He found, as I suspected, that her
> windisease system had been infected by more viruses than
> a CDC lab building, and that the bugs had throughly corrupted
> her machine. He is in process of getting her system cleaned
> off, re-installed and limping along again, but she is now
> acutely aware of needing better anti virus software, which
> Sukru understandably offered to sell her.
>
> Given that Mafia$oft has turned the virus vulnerabilities of their
> incompetent OS designs into a terror driven, self perpetuating,
> 100% profit point protection racket bonanza for windisease
> computer retailers and repair services, I strongly discourage
> people from spending any money on windisease anti-virus
> software. Even at Sukru's very fair prices, I find it totally
> obscene that my friend is having to pay for data recovery
> and re-install services in the first place, so I promised to
> help her track down a free anti-virus solution for windisease
> XP -- just something to keep her out of the tech hospital
> until I can get her fully cured with an upgrade to Linux,
> something which she is now intensely interested in doing.
>
> Again, "I don't do windows",  but I know there are folks on the
> list who do so regularly, so I'm looking for recommendations
> on good, FREE (preferably also Open Source) anti-virus
> software for windisease XP, keeping in mind that this is
> for a netbook which won't have a lot of system resources
> to waste.
>
> Google shows up strong on ClamWin, and AVG shows up
> as a "free" closed source offering, but I'd be happy to be
> educated on the strengths of either as well as any other
> options out there.
>
> Lili and I thank you in advance for any and all suggestions!
>
> peace
> aaron
>
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