Notes and resources for virus protection in Windows and Linux. (Don't relax your guard, viruses, worms, etc. can be written for Linux, but there is much less chance of them being able to infect your machine or do any damage. It is not uncommon to set up virus protection on a Linux server to offer some protection to Windows (mail) clients using the server.

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Virus Protection for Windows

Free (no cost)

• TheFreeSite.com: Anti-Virus Programs -- a listing of (some) free anti-virus programs (not sure it is complete or kept up-to-date)
• AntiVir Guard Personal Edition -- what I started using around 5 Jul 2002 -- so far so good
• AVG AntiVirus -- follow the links to register and download -- note:
  • AVG Anti-Virus Automatic Download Page -- IIRC, when I tried to download AVG I could never get to this page, despite filling out the forms and so forth -- finally wrote to their support site and they sent me this URL.
  • Aside: This site uses what I think are session cookies -- here's a URL from one of my sessions: http://www.grisoft.com/html/us_dwnl2.htm?session=84e20139bb5899a2fd535fb9804d58b2

Not Free

• Can't remember the name of the product I was using -- it was free, but they started charging for updates and I switched (to AntiVir Guard Personal Edition). (IIRC, it was from CA (Computer Associates).)

Virus Protection for Windows, on Linux

Virus Protection for Linux

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Resources

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