I’ve seen many corporate and education facilities using AVG Anti-Virus free edition. Although it is said to be free, but it is only meant for Home users. It only gives basic protection and no technical support. The corporate company might get into trouble and being heavily fined if they use the AVG Anti-Virus free edition on the office computer. AVG website did state very clearly that:
One of the REALLY free antivirus I found last year was AOL Active Virus Shield. It is powered by Kaspersky and I’ve recommended it to many many people. Unfortunately, it is no longer available and it has been replaced with McAfee VirusScan Plus.
I’ve searched everywhere on McAfee VirusScan Plus – Special edition from AOL website and can’t find anything that state you can’t use it on corporate and commercial computers. So, it will still be free IF you sign up for a free AOL email address. It takes only a few minutes to sign up for an AOL email address, and then you’ll be given the link to download the McAfee VirusScan Plus – Special edition.
McAfee VirusScan Plus – Special edition from AOL gives you the most comprehensive free set of safety tools available. AOL have partnered with a leading name in Internet security to deliver the essential protection you need. Since it’s automatically on-guard and up-to-date, it helps protect you against today’s attacks and tomorrow’s threats, too.
* Virus protection guards your whole PC
* Spyware Protection blocks potentially unwanted programs
* Firewall helps keep hackers out
McAfee VirusScan Plus – Special Edition is better than Active Virus Shield because it has spyware protection and firewall. As for Active Virus Shield, it only provides protection against virus. I’ve never used McAfee products before and not sure how good it is in detecting virus compared to Kaspersky. But hey, it’s totally FREE to use it anywhere!
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je veux telecharger Mcafee gratuit avec la licence de un an,mais je ne sais comment m’y prendre
Snoop Dogg feat. The Doors – Riders on The Storm!
McAfee is good at detecting “in the wild” viruses. It has almost as many VB100 awards as Kaspersky (Kaspersky has 42 awards and McAfee has 35) and it’s spyware protection seems to be better than Kaspersky as well.
Io uso McAfee by AOL da 2 mesi e va davvero bene.
Nessun problema per creare un account per AOL.com dal mio paese.
Ero abituato a NOD 32 e…..ora tutto va un poco più piano ma, la differenza è minima.
Per passare i test di PcFlank mattere la spunta del Firevwall su \”Current Level STEALTH\”
Finche dura la licenza….APPROFITTIAMONE
the download link for free aol mcafee avp is not dowloadable at the moment,
do you why ray?
thanks
After installing the new virus protection – Virus Scan Plus; I cannot sign on to AOL. Just gets hung up on password screen.
Is it not compatible with AOL? ( have version 9.0)
i oso get stuck in th phone num..although i enter a fake num..but..its useless..
Since AOL AVS has been discontinued, use Solo Antivirus instead.
softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Solo-Antivirus-Software.shtml
crackdb.org/Solo.antivirus.2007.v5.1.build.5.7.3-icu.torrent/get_107218_Solo.antivirus.2007.v5.1.build.5.7.3-icu_crack.html
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Would like to confirm:
1. My folder path for the xml file is at “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AOL\AVP6\Data”. It should be the same right?
2. The “first two lines” as mentioned, does it mean this:
Gracias por permitir proteger nuestras computadoras.
Jaime Lopez
I try many times to sign up for AOL.com email
but it said wrong zip code
and the password also wrong
why?
Thanks for appreciating Fred.
Also, thanks for sharing the link which we can request for 180 days of free Kaspersky Internet Security. That’s half a year of free great antivirus!
Thank you Raymond I don’t know how you get the time to keep up this blog but mere mortals like myself really appreciate it.
It is a pity AOL stopped using KAV engine which rocks and switched to McAfee which is fat, slow, hard/impossible to configure (to my liking), did not detect my test virus after I zipped it but did keep quarantining almost everything in my cracks directory. To its credit it did say ‘malware’ not ‘ Virus ‘ or ‘Trojan’ etc but it seemed impossible to exclude these files from this awesome detection feature. (Before anyone asks their just cracks no pathology in them). OK its free and Joe.Aol will probably be happy but I doubt their are many Joe.Aol’s reading this Blog and many of us would like to go back to Kaspersky. Well we can for 180 days for free. You get Kaspersky internet security 7 with a full commercial license and tech support the whole works.
Point your browser to
kaspersky-labs.co.uk/safeonline/
Its for UK residents only so use a proxy. It took me around 3 days for them to send an activation code but its fully functional for a month anyway without any activation code.
Great tip Hackman. Cheers!
You’re welcome krzysmir.
After updating, install the latest version (with more options like trusted zone and Vista compatible, you don’t have to uninstall, the upgrade works perfect) from
download.nullsoft.com/avs/AVS_v25.exe
or from Softpedia, if you don’t trust the link.
If in the future maybe update again doesn’t work, just delete the aol lines again and make the file read only, or change NTFS permissions to read only.
Hackman, thx for an info :) It’s works again !!! greets from Poland :)
Just keep AVS, don’t use McAfee, it’s bloated and detects less.
All you have to do is delete the first 2 lines in “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AVP6\Data\aol-updcfg.xml”:
and update works again!
Fuck AOL, fuck McAfee.
Raymond ,Is there a direct link for that download where we do not have to sign up.
I get stuck with the telefone number and things coz I im in the south pacific .It will be great if you can provide the link.Thankx
claive07 you are a shit
All hail claive07! Hope that you’ll be multi millionaire for being greater than me. Bah! Like I care… And also, how can you be great when you post your email so publicly for spammers to get your email and spam the crap outta you?
Raymond,
Your outdated! I am greater than you! Email me your questions,
claive07@yahoo.com
claive07
hi dear raymond
I try many times to sign up for AOL.com email
but it said wrong tel number .zip code
wrong pasword
Hi Webcadre,
-:) I got it in evening around 7:30PM (GMT+5:30)
-:( i try couple of times in Morning (GMT5:30) for me also didn’t get .
raymond do you think norton is good for a 850 mhz PC
howcome i can`t get it??? the server is down
how did you got it ragu?
Dear Raymond,
-:)) I got it!!!!,AOL McAfee Virus Scan Plus
Thanxs ,
Keep In Touch.
Ay Raymond What’s The Best Anti-Virus & Anti-Spyware Program Out Right Now. Thanks In Advance
ragu, you can enter a fake telephone number. Something like 888-888-8888
Hi Dear Raymond
Thank you very much for your reply,
My problem is i don’t have any telephone number in US,
B’coz i live rest of US!!
i try many times, but AOL.COM need US telephone number!!!
-:) Please let me know any other way to i get McAfee® VirusScan Plus – Special edition from AOL
-:) i am eagerly waiting for your replay
-;) Keep In Touch
AOL is a US internet service provider but then it stated “but with an aol.com email address, you can receive this comprehensive set of safety tools free”
So all you need to do is to create a free AOL email address, then you’re set to download the McAfee VirusScan Plus – Special edition from AOL.
AOL email address signup is FREE!
I thk AOL is meant for US residents only.
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ragu, you can just sign up for an AOL.com email for free.
McAfee® VirusScan Plus – Special edition from AOL , how i can download from
AOL.IN, B´coz i couldn’t get account from AOL.COM