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Generally most "good" anti virus programs are free for a period then the updating stops after some period. In order for it to be really effective you need to update the list often.
If you just have a single compter I suggest you get something like Mcafee or one of the others and get a multi year subscription. It is cheap when you figure how much time you will waste fixing a problem caused by a virus.
On a similar matter...I have 6-10 machines at home and have a dedicated server machine that handles proxy, firwall, virus, email, spyware and content filtering (for my kids). All thru a slick software solution running on the server, which updates itself every couple hours and sends me an email whenever one of the kids attempt to go to a off limits site or gets a virus, it works better than I could ever hoped for and that fact that it is current and fully automatic has been great. All machines inside don't need to run any virus stuff. It cost me about 150/year and is worth every penny as it protects everything inside the firewall and the outside world only sees 1 IP address. However, while it has worked great now for nealy 10 years the company got bought out now by BlueCoat and is ending this service in July 08 . They make hardware applainces (read plural) that do the same thing for a LOT more money, so now I am in the market to find a entirelly new product. I was wondering what JohnR would suggest for an all-in -one solution?
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