{"id":45,"date":"2007-10-20T11:48:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T11:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/20\/looking-for-free-anti-virus-software\/"},"modified":"2012-02-15T21:13:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T21:13:21","slug":"looking-for-free-anti-virus-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/20\/looking-for-free-anti-virus-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Free Anti-Virus Software?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like no one is willing to pay for anti-virus software (including myself) and are looking for alternatives to buying the name brand software like Norton or McAfee.  Most of the name brand software comes with huge mail-in rebates that require you to wait 2 months for you to cash in on a deal.  I recommend looking for alternative solutions.  I&#8217;ve personally been using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avast.com\">Avast Home Edition<\/a> for the last 6 months and have little to worry about.  Most companies selling anti-virus products are beginning to give away home editions for free.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some recommended programs:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avast.com\">Avast Home Edition<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/free.grisoft.com\/\">AVG from Grisoft<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like no one is willing to pay for anti-virus software (including myself) and are looking for alternatives to buying the name brand software like Norton or McAfee. Most of the name brand software comes with huge mail-in rebates that require you to wait 2 months for you to cash in on a deal. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/20\/looking-for-free-anti-virus-software\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Looking for Free Anti-Virus Software?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kulvir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}