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On 09/01/07, Ben Butterfield <Ben.Butterfield at elanit.co.uk> wrote:
> I switched to AVG a couple of years ago and haven't seen any evidence of any
> viruses (virii?) on any of my PCs. They do a paid version if you need the
> extra features.

It's viruses, not viri, virii or anything else [1].

+1 for AVG, too. Stay away from Norton. How Symantec is still in
business is a mystery. Actually, it's not. They've managed to make
Norton the default AV of "choice" for PC World buyers in the UK and
probably BestBuy, CompUSA etc, in the US.

If PC World salespeople had half a brain (I know: a big ask), they'd
say "don't buy Norton! It's a pile of steaming resource-hogging crap!"

But d'oh! It's all a conspiracy to sell people a faster machine when
theirs "mysteriously" slows down after installing NAV.

Tim

[1] "Those confused souls who write virii are tacitly positing the
existence of the non-word virius, and declining it as though it were
like filius. It's true that l/r are both linguals that sometimes get
interchanged, and that f/v are just a change in voicing, but that's
just reaching. Virii is still completely silly, so don't do that;
otherwise, everyone will know you're just a blathering script kiddie."
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html