[Eug-lug] AVG virus protection software

[Allen Brown]

My Linux computers have been running without any virus protection
since RH5.2.  How long is that, 10 years?  I don't know.

As far as I know I have never had an infection.

I can't comment on Windoze.  At least without using profanity...
-- 
Allen Brown  abrown at peak.org  http://69.59.200.90/~abrown/
   Everything is sweetened by risk. --- Alexander Smith [1830-1867]

Brian Gallagher wrote:
> 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 with no virus protection, then to keep working with windows and outdated 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