From: cory@right.here.com

I'm giving up on paid AV products because of their ridiculous prices.
I have 5 computers, and the cost each year for an AV product has
become too much.

I'm using XP SP 3.  I initially tried the Free AVG.  It never would
load on boot.  I had to manually load it each time.  I uninstalled it
after a few days. I then tried Kaspersky Free.  Kaspersky was too
annoying with it's pop ups regarding Web page certificates, plus my
newsreader Agent wouldn't download bodies unless I turned off
Kaspersky.

I got rid of Kaspersky and tried AVG again.  Same problem as the first
time.  It had to be manually loaded after a boot.  Which, I think,
leaves my machine unprotected during boot.  Right?

Is anyone else using XP having such problems?  AVG is supposed to be
able to work with XP.  Kaspersky isn't, but I thought I'd try it since
that is the one I've always subscribed to.  On top of all this, from
what I read in Amazon reviews, lots of people are having all kinds of
problems even with the ones they spent money for.

Any XP users have a suggestion about a freebie AV that works with XP?
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