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[Pierre Sahores]

Richmond,

I use the full free and GPL ClamWin antivirus on all my windows boxes without any sad event for years. If you did'nt try it before, have an eye on this interesting solution ;-)

<http://www.clamwin.com/>

Best, Pierre


Le 10 juil. 2010 à 21:17, Richmond a écrit :

> On 07/10/2010 07:10 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote:
>> Hello Richmond,
>> 
>> Try VirtualBox instead. A great tool !
>> 
>> <http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads>
>>   
> 
> Thank you Pierre for your suggestion.
> 
> I have, previously, played around with VirtualBox.
> 
> However; the very, very few Windows programs I 'need' to use
> work extremely well with WINE (currently Appleworks 6
> and Axalias Icon Studio).
> 
> VirtualBox is unable to run Windows software without the
> end-user owning an install disc for whichever variant of
> Windows they wish to use.
> 
> I was hoping that WINE could run the Windows version
> of my FREE Devawriter as a way of empowering people
> who don't have the wherewithall to buy a Windows disk.
> 
> AND, if one has a Windows disk one might just as well
> run my software on a Windows partition of the computer;
> which rather sidesteps the whole problem.
> 
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> 
> Having seen how Windows (apart from the initial purchase
> of an install disk) continues to 'cost' in terms of monthly
> payments for anti-virus software, and in terms of time
> lost owing to virus problems, I would not recommend
> anyone use Windows anyway.
> 
> Friends and colleagues over here who are compelled to
> use Windows (as professional software they require is
> only available for Windows) estimate that each machine costs
> $50 a month in terms of anti-virus stuff, as well as about
> 1-3 man hours per week because of associated problems.
> 
> Those who use Linux reckon a machine costs about $5
> a month with no man-hours lost.
> 
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