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Re: [LUG] bbc on open source

 

Julian Hall wrote:
> 
> AVG was fine while it was free, but not if competing 
> with the commercial antivirus products.

Most of the antivirus systems have pretty poor coverage for the genuine
threats.

I think they are all but pointless these days.

The situation might be slightly different on Windows XP home, or other
OSes with limited in built security, but the solution to that isn't
along the antivirus software model.

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