Tag: GRISOFT

Avira has released AntiVir Personal 8.1, a free antivirus appliation. Like popular free antivirus applications from Grisoft and Avast!, Avira offers a free basic security suite in the hopes of convincing some users to spring for a commercial version. The main difference between Avira and the competition, as far as we're concerned, is that Avira AntiVir will occasionally pop up nagware asking you ...

"With its growing popularity, it is only a matter of time before the Linux operating system becomes more widely targeted by virus and malware writers." That's how the press release from Grisoft announcing AVG Free for Linux starts. While perhaps a bit premature, it's free and probably welcome protection for the most paranoid sysadmins. ...