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Re: Viruses



McAfee offers a 30 day free-trial. The software doesn't expire after 30
days, but you get nagged constantly after the 30 about removing or buying.
On the other hand, within 30 days they almost always come out with yet
another beta version and you can download that and try for 30 days, ad
infinitum. {I actually broke down and paid them a month ago, even though I
have a copy on my home machine that came with the computer, I decided I had
been using it enough at the office that they deserved some renumeration.}
Once you pay you get 'free' updates of the program for a year (although it
seems their year runs looong), and free update files forever. All of this
is for the PC version. It doesn't look like the Mac version gets updated
very often, but it is also a lot cheaper than the PC version if you buy.

Rick
-----Original Message-----
From: James Mclean <jmclean@chem.ucsd.edu>
To: phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu <phys-l@atlantis.uwf.edu>
Date: Wednesday, February 04, 1998 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: Viruses


Paul Camp says:
.... You can download McAfee from the web. It
cleans most anything.


I just went to look at the McAfee web site, and as far as I can tell there
was no free-ware available. Is that correct? Or is there freeware burried
in there somewhere, just hard to find because they'd rather get your money.

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--James McLean
jmclean@chem.ucsd.edu
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UC San Diego, Chemistry