A Good Free Anti-Virus Program

I was using NOD32 which seemed to work well-enough but wasn't very user
friendly for less than advanced users. When my year expired, I decided to
try one of the free programs instead of renewing NOD32 for close to $30. I
downloaded Avast. It seems to work OK and even found a few viruses in the
Archive files that NOD missed or wasn't configured to catch. My problem
with Avast is that I'm using a dial-up ISP and, with Avast, browsing the
Internet, opening web sites, downloading, etc., is very slow. My system is
somewhat slow to begin with and, with Avast, it has become even slower.
Is there any other free virus program that's fairly user friendly and
doesn't slow down Internet browsing or downloading very much? Would
appreciate any advice?
Al

'Al' wrote, in part:
| Is there any other free virus program that's fairly user friendly and
| doesn't slow down Internet browsing or downloading very much? Would
| appreciate any advice?
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Since you are using Outlook Express as your newsreader, use the 'Find'
function to locate messages posted to this newsgroup. Click on the 'Find'
button and enter [ free ] (without the brackets) in the subject line and
click on the 'Find Now' button. There have been over three hundred messages
posted here in the last year and more than 100 in the last 30 days; almost
all related to free antivirus applications.

That is a good start toward finding answers to your question. Or you can
just wait for people to repeat themselves.

By the way, I would guess that there are NO well known antivirus
applications that noticeably slow down Internet browsing.

Phil Weldon

"Al" <albertr RemoveThis @joimail.com> wrote in message
news:f367h.7486$L6.2982@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
|I was using NOD32 which seemed to work well-enough but wasn't very user
| friendly for less than advanced users. When my year expired, I decided to
| try one of the free programs instead of renewing NOD32 for close to $30.
I
| downloaded Avast. It seems to work OK and even found a few viruses in the
| Archive files that NOD missed or wasn't configured to catch. My problem
| with Avast is that I'm using a dial-up ISP and, with Avast, browsing the
| Internet, opening web sites, downloading, etc., is very slow. My system
is
| somewhat slow to begin with and, with Avast, it has become even slower.
| Is there any other free virus program that's fairly user friendly and
| doesn't slow down Internet browsing or downloading very much? Would
| appreciate any advice?
| Al
|
|