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Re:McAfee quarantines svchost.exe on millions of WinXP machi... by kentosi on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @07:36PM (#1283545)
"- There are plenty of good products available, some of them are free, ..."

Care to list some please? I don't use Windows, but I'm sick of my dad's PC being infected by the "Windows Security" scam application every 4 months. Not to mention the set of other viruses I find when trying to clean it up...

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Re:McAfee quarantines svchost.exe on millions of WinXP machi... by xpaulbettsx on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @09:16PM (#1283761)
Microsoft Security Essentials. It's free and it's the fastest and most thorough AV solution.

http://www.cnet.com.au/microsoft-security-essentials-3392988...

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Re:McAfee quarantines svchost.exe on millions of WinXP machi... by noonespecial on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @08:52PM (#1283713)
AVG is good

http://free.avg.com/ww-en/free-antivirus-download

ClamAV for windows is ok too:

http://www.clamwin.com/

Hell, just running housecall once in a while manually can do wonders:

http://housecall.trendmicro.com

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