John, that's an excellent page you've developed. Cannot imagine the amount of time and effort you had to put into it, though. A most valuable resource!!!
I do like your summary/conclusion about free antivirus software:
The above quoted passage was taken from John's excellent webpage...here!!!
Gotta agree with your conclusions. While I've been using the pay-for version of Kaspersky for quite a while now, I cannot imagine why anyone would want to use AntiVir, Avast!, or AVG when the AOL AVS is just as capable.....and free.
For the "bloatware" complaint about KAV, while running it does take about 10-12MB of memory, I'd think that's about average for a decent AV program.......and this complaint surfaces over and over, esp. when the same people use Firefox, as I do too. Firefox is very well known to expand its memory usage to well over 100-200MB.
Personally, right now I have two Firefox 2 browser windows open, one with 5 tabs open and one with 2 tabs open, and it's using over 140MB of memory. So, while one can complain about KAV using 10MB or so of memory, I think it's rather disingenuous to complain about that when Firefox 2 has such a large memory hit while running.
Keep up the good work, John. I just wish others would actually bother to read what you've spent so much time and effort to produce.
PS......for those of you having trouble getting the activation codes for the AOL AVS, try a bunch of different email addresses. You can put one after another in on the page before the download page to try different portals/etc. I found one that AOL sends the activation code almost immediately to, so just went back over and over to the "put your email in" page and received several activation codes almost as fast as the download page loaded. Worth a try.
I did this because some of my family members have had trouble getting the codes sent to various email addresses, esp. on Yahoo, MSN, gmail, etc. I used one that AOL seemed to like, got several activation codes and sent each one a different code. Now all have a decent AVS client.
I do like your summary/conclusion about free antivirus software:
The above quoted passage was taken from John's excellent webpage...here!!!
Gotta agree with your conclusions. While I've been using the pay-for version of Kaspersky for quite a while now, I cannot imagine why anyone would want to use AntiVir, Avast!, or AVG when the AOL AVS is just as capable.....and free.
For the "bloatware" complaint about KAV, while running it does take about 10-12MB of memory, I'd think that's about average for a decent AV program.......and this complaint surfaces over and over, esp. when the same people use Firefox, as I do too. Firefox is very well known to expand its memory usage to well over 100-200MB.
Personally, right now I have two Firefox 2 browser windows open, one with 5 tabs open and one with 2 tabs open, and it's using over 140MB of memory. So, while one can complain about KAV using 10MB or so of memory, I think it's rather disingenuous to complain about that when Firefox 2 has such a large memory hit while running.
Keep up the good work, John. I just wish others would actually bother to read what you've spent so much time and effort to produce.
PS......for those of you having trouble getting the activation codes for the AOL AVS, try a bunch of different email addresses. You can put one after another in on the page before the download page to try different portals/etc. I found one that AOL sends the activation code almost immediately to, so just went back over and over to the "put your email in" page and received several activation codes almost as fast as the download page loaded. Worth a try.
I did this because some of my family members have had trouble getting the codes sent to various email addresses, esp. on Yahoo, MSN, gmail, etc. I used one that AOL seemed to like, got several activation codes and sent each one a different code. Now all have a decent AVS client.