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1yr Free retail License CA Antivirus

RugbyPete
RugbyPete Posts: 53 Forumite
in Techie Stuff
This may be of interest to some of you. Throw away your free scanners and get your hands on a full retail product with one years full usage of Computer Associates Antivirus

http://home3.ca.com/SubscriptCenter/MSTrialRegistration.aspx?cid=573

Comments

  • RugbyPete
    RugbyPete Posts: 53 Forumite
    Confirmed, it works great, license shows valid until december 2009 :beer:

    CA was the first to catch the virus exploiting KB958644 recently, that caused me 50+ hours overtime
  • ukclarkkent
    ukclarkkent Posts: 155 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    hiya,

    thanks for this. my current licenced version of avg expires end of january so this might be really great.

    before i install it, can you schedule scans? automatic updates?

    thanks for posting!!!
  • digp
    digp Posts: 2,013 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    What does it mean by "Free scan versions are limited to scan only."?

    Can you recommend a firewall too?

    Is this CA better than Nod32?
  • gaming_guy
    gaming_guy Posts: 6,128 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    digp wrote: »
    Is this CA better than Nod32?

    probably not

    for the firewall, i use comodo and its brilliant
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