I'm confused again - I already have a virus program that I love, and when it
cancelled the free version I bought the annual subscription because it
served me so well as a free version.  Viruses aren't my concern, especially
with web pages.  I'm talking about the pages with dancing ladies (or
whatever) that have virtually no clothes on (or whatever) that you get when
you type in an address with a typo or a wrong ending (.com, .org, etc)
accidentally, or an address that seems innocent but is very cleverly
disguised and is nasty.

I will look into Sven's suggestions.  But are you saying that avast! does
more than block viruses now, or that you're only concerned with embedded
viruses in webpages?

Laurie Hand

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I use avast! anti-virus, and recently, with an update, they said they now
download webpages through a proxy and if they are "dirty" and they can't
clean them, then they block them.  So you don't have to decide what to
block, avast! supposedly checks the page before you get it and you only get
it if it is okay.  The version of avast! I use is free and it auto-updated
with virus signatures daily.

Anna Summers

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