[geeks] Is there still a free anti-virus package for WinXP?

[Sheldon T. Hall]

James Fogg said ...
[somebody said...]
> > Isn't AVG 8.0 still free? I know they stopped updating 7.5 
> > today, but that was to make people upgrade to the new 
> >edition maybe?
> 
> Yes, AVG is free, and I had to upgrade to V8.0, which is much 
> nicer. It
> even has hooks into Outlook/Outlook express, FireFox, IE and probably
> other things that I don't use. Its FireFox web filter is incredibly
> good, it saved me from a few malicious sites.

As it turns out, I misread the announcements from AVG; they seemed to
indicate that the free version of 8.0 would have substantially fewer
capabilities than 7.5, but now I see that this isn't the case.

I've updated, and all is well.

Thanks, everyone.

-Shel