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1. ragu August 13th, 2007 at 1:37 pm 1

   McAfee® VirusScan Plus – Special edition from AOL , how i can download from
   AOL.IN, B´coz i couldn’t get account from AOL.COM

2. Raymond August 13th, 2007 at 3:35 pm 2

   ragu, you can just sign up for an AOL.com email for free.

3. The Malaysian Blogosphere » Blog Archive » Raymond.CC: AOL Active Virus Shield is replaced with McAfee Virus Scan Plus August 13th, 2007 at 6:26 pm 3

   [...] 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. (more…) [...]

4. Liliput August 13th, 2007 at 9:04 pm 4

   I thk AOL is meant for US residents only.

5. Raymond August 13th, 2007 at 9:43 pm 5

   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!

6. ragu August 14th, 2007 at 11:56 pm 6

   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

7. Raymond August 15th, 2007 at 8:12 am 7

   ragu, you can enter a fake telephone number. Something like 888-888-8888

8. GT August 15th, 2007 at 12:26 pm 8

   Ay Raymond What’s The Best Anti-Virus & Anti-Spyware Program Out Right Now. Thanks In Advance

9. ragu August 16th, 2007 at 1:52 pm 9

   Dear Raymond,

   -:)) I got it!!!!,AOL McAfee Virus Scan Plus

   Thanxs ,

   Keep In Touch.

10. webcadre August 17th, 2007 at 12:02 am 10

    howcome i can`t get it??? the server is down

    how did you got it ragu?

11. probo August 17th, 2007 at 7:27 am 11

    raymond do you think norton is good for a 850 mhz PC

12. ragu August 17th, 2007 at 1:24 pm 12

    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 .

13. cezarion August 19th, 2007 at 11:48 pm 13

    hi dear raymond
    I try many times to sign up for AOL.com email
    but it said wrong tel number .zip code
    wrong pasword

14. claive07 August 23rd, 2007 at 8:51 pm 14

    Raymond,

    Your outdated! I am greater than you! Email me your questions,

    claive07@yahoo.com

    claive07

15. Raymond August 23rd, 2007 at 9:28 pm 15

    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?

16. claive07 is a peice os shit August 31st, 2007 at 7:05 am 16

    claive07 you are a shit

17. probo August 31st, 2007 at 7:10 am 17

    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

18. Hackman September 3rd, 2007 at 3:59 pm 18

    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.

19. krzysmir September 3rd, 2007 at 10:05 pm 19

    Hackman, thx for an info It’s works again !!! greets from Poland

20. Hackman September 7th, 2007 at 12:49 am 20

    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

    http://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.

21. Raymond September 7th, 2007 at 10:53 am 21

    Great tip Hackman. Cheers!

22. Fred September 7th, 2007 at 2:57 pm 22

    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
    http://www.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.

23. Raymond September 7th, 2007 at 5:07 pm 23

    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!

24. Karisma September 25th, 2007 at 9:41 pm 24

    I try many times to sign up for AOL.com email
    but it said wrong zip code
    and the password also wrong
    why?

25. Jaime Lopez October 19th, 2007 at 10:35 am 25

    Gracias por permitir proteger nuestras computadoras.

    Jaime Lopez

26. Spencer October 19th, 2007 at 10:32 pm 26

    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:

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28. Enrique December 4th, 2007 at 5:43 pm 28

    Since AOL AVS has been discontinued, use Solo Antivirus instead.

    http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Solo-Antivirus-Software.shtml

    http://www.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

29. ABBY December 9th, 2007 at 11:13 am 29

    i oso get stuck in th phone num..although i enter a fake num..but..its useless..

30. Rudy January 2nd, 2008 at 10:28 am 30

    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)

31. webcadre January 24th, 2008 at 4:59 am 31

    the download link for free aol mcafee avp is not dowloadable at the moment,

    do you why ray?

    thanks

32. Roberto March 18th, 2008 at 6:39 pm 32

    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

33. Skillz May 1st, 2008 at 6:46 am 33

    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.

34. chita June 18th, 2008 at 11:52 pm 34

    Snoop Dogg feat. The Doors – Riders on The Storm!