Comments on: AOL offers free antivirus software

Active Virus Shield software is likely to become the highest-profile alternative to for-pay security software.

[delder]

Not really free

Headline is incorrect. Ad supported software is adware, not freeware.

[Tanjore]

AOL does not say it is freeware

AOL does not say it is freeware!!!

Ofcourse it is adware just like

AOL instant messenger, windows live messenger, yahoo messenger etc, google desktop/side bar etc.

[Squashman2]

What the.....

Could they be anymore wrong with this statement, "Active Virus Shield is not the only free antivirus product available, but it is likely to become the highest-profile alternative to for-pay products from vendors such as Symantec, McAfee and Microsoft. Other no-cost antivirus options are Grisoft's AVG Anti-Virus and ClamWin, which is based on the open-source Clam AntiVirus engine."

Did Joris Evers get a kick back from AOL to say that. What about Avast. I visit many technology forums and when people talk about Free AntiVirus, there is usually only two versions they are talking about.....AVG or Avast.

[JorisEvers]

Oops, forgot about Avast

Okay, it must have been a black out or something, but I completely forgot about Avast in my list of free antivirus products. Mea Culpa. I will update the story.

Still though, with the weight of AOL and Kaspersky behind it, I think Active Virus Shield will be a higher profile product than any of the current free AV offerings.

Joris, CNET

[KTWinATL]

Use Avast

Avast.com has really free anti-virus software with no adds for home use.

[wbenton]

Nothing with AOL is free.

Anything offered as free has strings attached... and with AOL... consider there to be more strings than usual.

Walt

[clee123]

A true face ...

It's amazing how they were able to put their words together to sound like as if they're some sort of a caring will-do-anything-to-make-the-world-safe pro-community kind of company, while their true face is about invading people's privacy, and make money out of it.

[antivirus-software]

I already have my virus protection

[,aru campbell]

thank you