[Eug-lug] AVG virus protection software

[Brian Gallagher]

It looks like AVG will not be free any more after January 15th.  Now I 
am looking for suggestions for a replacement.

Some Background:  I use a wireless share for my connection for my web 
access.  I pay my house mate to be part of his network, so this is not 
road warring!  I am on the edge of the wireless router range, so the 
signal is weak to begin with and drops out frequently complicating my 
wireless technical development.  I have setup a test station that is 
much closer to the router, but its cold in the garage, if you know what 
I mean!

Given that I don't know much about wireless accept what I have learned 
from trial and error, it has been rough to get to a Linux implementation 
of wireless networking.  At present I am still using windows.  Frankly, 
I just kept giving up too easily and never really tried to get things 
running, as other work has take priority.

Here is my question: should I stop worrying about virus protection and 
make implementing Linux wireless my top priority, because virus threats 
are low under Linux; Therefore, would I be better off running Linux, 
with no virus protection, then to keep working with windows and outdated 
AVG software?

Brian