Mind of Tim

There are so many people out there who do one of the following with their computer:

1) Go out and spend $50+ on a packaged version of antivirus (normally Norton or McAffee)
2) Go without anti-virus because they can’t be bothered to pay $50+ on security
OR
3) Just too damn lazy to install an anti-virus

For people in catagory 3 get off your lazy asses! And for the people in the first two catagories, listen up because i have some good news! You DON’T have to spend money on anti-virus. You can get anti-virus for FREE. It’s even GOOD anti-virus. Some may argue that its BETTER anti-virus than the packages you spend $50+ dollars on! So I am here to enlighten the masses (or at the very least the 3 people that actually read this blog) to a couple options for FREE anti-virus.

Option #1: AVG Anti-Virus
This is the software that i’ve sworn by for my computer for the last couple years. It’s never let me down yet. This is my #1 horse. Oh and they even have a version for you linux users out there (although i don’t know that you actually need anti-virus on your linux box).

Option #2: avast! Free
This one I just discovered. I don’t know how long they’ve offered a free version, and quite honestly I’ve never used it, so I can’t speak to the quality of its scanner. However this has to be better than using NOTHING (and avast has been around for a while now, so I’m sure its all good).

So go get yourself some free anti-virus. If you’ve been suckered into paying for Norton or McAffee or something similar, by all means stick with it until your subscription runs out. But when that does happen. Give one of these a shot and save yourself 50 bucks. And if you don’t like them. You can always go back out buy the package you liked better.

Remember kids, to always practice safe computing.