August 8, 200817 yr I was just about to buy some new antivirus protection for my PC when I discovered that my bank (who I will not name because frankly they are wankers) are giving away free Kaspersky antivirus if you use online banking with them. I was wondering if any other companies are giving away free antivirus and what they get out of it. "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp.
August 8, 200817 yr You can run Kaspersky for free on-line, takes a while though. "Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity." Marshall McLuhan
August 8, 200817 yr You can scan yes, but it will not offer live-protection if you use the on-line version. "Geez. It's like we lost some sort of bet and ended up saddled with a bunch of terrible new posters on this forum." -Hurlshot
August 8, 200817 yr How come this doesn't belong in Skeeter's? Anyway a lot of companies give away anti virus for free. Mostly it's ISP:s, but I can see how others would do it as well. What they get out of it? It's a marketing tool. Simple as that. If the OPs question is if there are free antivirus programs as a viable alternative to buying them, then yes, there are. AVG Free comes to mind for instance.
August 8, 200817 yr The cable company I use, Comcast, provides free lifetime McAfee's AV just for being a member. Its nice and you can install it on as many PC's as you like. Just log into the site from the PC you want it on and d/l away!
August 8, 200817 yr The University I work for gives away free symantec anti-virus to anyone who connects to their network (students, faculty, staff, alumni, etc.). I think they're just trying to keep infected computers off the network. Anybody here catch that? All I understood was 'very'.
August 8, 200817 yr I was just about to buy some new antivirus protection for my PC when I discovered that my bank (who I will not name because frankly they are wankers) are giving away free Kaspersky antivirus if you use online banking with them. I was wondering if any other companies are giving away free antivirus and what they get out of it. yeah, i got a year's free anti-virus from my bank too. maybe we have the same bank? send me your account details plus passwords and i'll verify to make sure. dumber than a bag of hammers
August 9, 200817 yr Author I was just about to buy some new antivirus protection for my PC when I discovered that my bank (who I will not name because frankly they are wankers) are giving away free Kaspersky antivirus if you use online banking with them. I was wondering if any other companies are giving away free antivirus and what they get out of it. yeah, i got a year's free anti-virus from my bank too. maybe we have the same bank? send me your account details plus passwords and i'll verify to make sure. I thought I had put this in Skeeters. So this stupid thing isn't live? "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp.
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