Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 17th Oct 2006 01:51 UTC
Softpedia posted today a small review of three anti-virus software that are free to use, complete with screenshots. Consider using Microsoft's or Adaware's anti-spyware utilities too to keep your XP healthy.
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RE[3]: Anti-virus testing
by bytecoder on Tue 17th Oct 2006 21:00
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Virus scanners are not just signature scanners -- they also use heuristic algorithms to try and detect suspicious patterns of instructions.
That means they sometimes CAN detect unknown virus or trojan code. :-)