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Old 2nd Nov 2008, 18:23
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stickyb
 
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Originally Posted by BOAC
As I posted, I am using Avira at the moment so I am taking a 'rain check' on AVG TFN. I may return. So far Avira looks good if anyone else would like to comment?
I have been a fan and user of avira since win98 days. Only problem have had is a few (about 2) false positives, which were very quickly fixed when i queried them.

One thing I like about avira is that you can now "lock it down" and specifiy a default action to be taken when a virus is detected that does not invlove prompting the user. Recently had an experience with a friend when their (paid for) anti virus popped up a message saying "xxxxx detected, allow?" and the default button was "ok, allow" which meant the trojan got installed. Quite a "Duh" moment.

So far, though, avira has proved foolproof on kids machines.
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