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Hummer
October 14th, 2003, 04:35 AM
I currently use Nod32. From browsing around it seems BitDefender is a respected freeware program for backup A/V use. I'm just wondering if anyone knows of spyware in it. Hard to image a decent freeware A/V without some form of money in it for em.

Am I missing any other 'respected' freeware A/V's. I only need on-demand scanning as a backup.

TIA!
Pieter_Arntz
October 14th, 2003, 04:56 AM
Hi Hummer,

To my knowledge there is only one AV that is reputedly spyware: EAntology's StopSign:
http://www.pestpatrol.com/PestInfo/S/StopSign.asp
http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/DownloadReceiver.html
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.downreceive.html

Regards,

Pieter
JayK
October 14th, 2003, 09:31 AM
Well how about Vcatch?
Pieter_Arntz
October 14th, 2003, 10:03 AM
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Well how about Vcatch?
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Good one, JayK. Must be one of those I'm trying to forget:
http://www.pestpatrol.com/PestInfo/v/vcatch_3_0.asp

Regards,

Pieter
minacross
October 14th, 2003, 10:04 AM
-{ Quote: " quoting: JayK link=board=24;threadid=14922;start=0#msg93591 date=1066138288]
Well how about Vcatch?
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previous versions contained spyware components.
do not know about the current version..