Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] good free virus protection for Win XP?

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 09:39:08 -0600 (CST), Mike Miller
<EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Jonathan King wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> >
> >> My wife needs virus protection for her Win XP laptop.  Is there a good
> >> free product that does updates and doesn't prompt all the time?
> >
> > Well, you could always sell the XP Laptop, buy a tricked out iBook and
> > get an OS that is essentially virus-free and puts out free feature and
> > security updates on a very regular basis.
> 
> Not always.  The laptop was supplied by her employer!

"I have saved you $300 in virus removal and data recovery charges by
buying this iBook to replace my unusably slow adware-encrusted
notebook with this notebook.  Oh yeah, and here's the extra money I
got from the trade-in."

No, I don't think that would actually happen in very many cases right
now, but at some point really soon this might be seen as a reasonable
plan for a whole department.  The amount of money spent on junk like
this really *has* become completely mind-boggling.

jking
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