Comments on: How I Saved $300 On Software This Year http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/05/how-i-saved-300-on-software-this-year/ Financial talk for the rest of us Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:14:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jihan http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/05/how-i-saved-300-on-software-this-year/#comment-504451 Jihan Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:26:49 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/05/how-i-saved-300-on-software-this-year/#comment-504451 I agree with Louis M. I have not used ClamWin but I heard it was not very good for reasons such as no realtime scanning. I also recommend Avast! or AVG AntiVirus. They are both great.

]]> By: Louis M http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/05/how-i-saved-300-on-software-this-year/#comment-102744 Louis M Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:44:31 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/05/how-i-saved-300-on-software-this-year/#comment-102744 You all should try Avast anti virus.
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html The ‘home’ edition has all of the features of the commercial version, including real time scanning, automatic updates, many scanning options, and is absolutely free.

]]> By: Trent http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/05/how-i-saved-300-on-software-this-year/#comment-3522 Trent Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:11:02 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/05/how-i-saved-300-on-software-this-year/#comment-3522 I have ClamWin set as an automatic task to scan my whole hard drive regularly. This way I don’t maintain trojans and such. I prefer this to on-demand scanning because then I don’t have to deal with much slower system responses when I actually want to do stuff.

]]> By: Troy http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/05/how-i-saved-300-on-software-this-year/#comment-3509 Troy Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:51:03 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/05/how-i-saved-300-on-software-this-year/#comment-3509 Hi I just had to comment on your choice of Clam Win. I use it myself and really like it. Just keep in mind that it does not scan your files on a real time basis.

From the site:
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Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.
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It means that an executable can be started up with out it being scanned. I would recommend taking a look at winpooch (http://winpooch.sourceforge.net/). It can combine with clam win and scan files as they are being accessed. As a bonus it will warn you if files try to write/access parts of your computer that spyware would access.

]]> By: Dee http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/05/how-i-saved-300-on-software-this-year/#comment-743 Dee Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:44:58 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/05/how-i-saved-300-on-software-this-year/#comment-743 Thanks for sharing your research with us.

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