If you are sick and tired of paying $30 to $50 a year for antivirus software, go here to download AVG Free Antivirus (free only for home users).
Go to this page – http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 and scroll to the bottom, and you’ll see the link to
AVG Free for Windows installation files.
*update – as of 1/1/2007 AVG is no longer free…sorry!
update 1:45 pm Jan 3, 2005 –
the site below is down, and has been all day since everyone in the world linked to it!
Use the solution from New Years Eve if it’s not up when you try it…
Since my previous post, Ilfak Guilfanov has a better option for fixing this dangerous flaw.
My computer store, Cyber Exchange, changed it’s name to MPH Computing, and moved to 119th and Halsey in NE Portland.
Now, that same location is being used for the largest nightly poker tournaments anywhere in the state!
This article is four days old, and I meant to post on it right away. All versions of Windows are affeceted, regardless of whether you’re updated with Windows patches.
One of my customers got infected already, and there was nothing I could do to fix it. By the time I got my hands on the computer, I took the hard drive out, stuck it in another machine, and could not even read the Windows directory anymore.
