Inoculan AntiVirus Client 4.1 Complete package

Advantages: Cheap and efficient. Regularly updated
Disadvantages: No longer totally free

~ ~ One thing you have to be very sure of these days is that your files and programmes are adequately protected against all the various computer viruses that are doing the rounds, especially if you are in the habit of downloading frequently from lots of different sources on the Internet. (as most of us do) A computer virus can be fairly innocuous, but on the other hand, if you get infected by a malicious one, it can quite literally wipe out your ...
...that may have taken years to achieve and accumulate. If this happens, and you haven’t backed up your files, then it can mean you having to format your hard drive in order to get rid of it, and having to start from scratch all over again. ~ ~ One way of ensuring that this nightmare scenario is not inflicted upon you is to use a good anti-virus checker. One of the best on the market is Norton Anti-Virus, but this will cost you money, and there ... Read review

Advantages: Free virus protection, small download, free updates, uses very little system resources
Disadvantages: I can't find any

When you have a child it is important to have them vaccinated against major diseases, so why do so many people still not have a decent anti-virus package for their PC's? Because the two major Anti-virus vendors (Symantecs Norton Antivirus and McAfee Virusscan) cost money. Not just once either. You have to pay for virus updates via subscription, much like when you visit the doctor and are given a precription. People don't like paying and it seems ...
...amongst novice computer users. Having had and used a PC for over two years, and been connected to the net for eighteen months I have used both of the retail packages, until their subscriptions ran out. Loath to pay out for another anti-virus package, I ran the risk (bit like having sex without a condom. You still have the pleasure of surfing the net, but the danger is ever present.) Then I picked up my copy of PCPlus from the newsagent and on the ... Read review

Advantages: Totally FREE and easy to use
Disadvantages: None

After using the internet for about a year , totally oblivious to the fact that there was millions of different viruses out there (to be honest I didnt even know what a virus was!!) , my computer started to act a bit strange on me. I e-mailed my dad and he then phoned me back to thank me for infecting his computer with a KAK-worm virus!!!! A WHAT????? Fortunatley for my dad he had got a free disc with a magazine the month previuos with a FREE computer ...
...on this virus as it entered his computer through Outlook Express. So....where could I get a copy of this FREE program? http://antivirus.ca.com I was sent the link through my e-mail from my dad and got to work downloading the virus scanner. It took about 10 minutes to download and was almost working straight away. The KaKworm virus that had infected my computer was still there but had been rendered inactive,and after trying various "fixes" for ... Read review

Advantages: Free, easy to update.
Disadvantages: needs a net connection

I have used InoculateIT Personal Edition for just under two years now, ever since I started having internet access on my own computer at, and it has proven to be very useful, especially with the number of friends whose computers have been down due to viruses during that time. Some have proved more terminal than others. Last Christmas, a friend of mine unwittingly sent me a virus, which was quickly eliminated by InoculateIT personal edition, and in ...
...a virus check, at which point he replied, that they had no virus-checker installed, as he thought that InoculateIT was cluttering up the desktop, and the systray. I managed to save his father's latest manuscript (no backup of it either!) before stabilising the system, and flushing out a pretty nasty critter. I am online a lot, and know how easy it is to transmit a virus, whether deliberately or unwittingly. In February, friends lost all access to ... Read review

Advantages: Free! Free updates! Efficient, virtually transparent (only puts up messages when it actually finds a virus), very fast scanner.
Disadvantages: Update definitions are big, but small in comparision to NAV. Not as feature packed as other products.

In the Virus Scanning world, there are two types of scanners: Those you pay for to scan and those that scan without the paying part. InoculateIT falls into the latter category and it should stay there. A 3.03Mb download gets you a fully featured Anti-Virus scanner that in all essence, looks exactly like VET, the only difference that you have to pay to update the definitions in VET, whereas you don't pay with InoculateIT. And why pay when you can ...
...nothing? So how does it get on in a typical environment? Well, you download it, run it and it sets itself up and runs you through its wizard in which you specify how you want the thing to operate. Since most users at this point will just keeping Next, the default settings work well. All it then needs is a reboot of the system and InoculateIT begins working. Total setup and working program in less than three minutes and none of that "configuring ... Read review