What was your first Anti-Virus/Antispyware program you can remember?

BoraMurdar

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Mine was GIANT-AntiSpyware :D
It looks like some rogue Antivirus but it was one of the better GUI's in those days :) Windows Defender was initially based on it
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Jaspion

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Oh, great thread! Maybe you'll help me identify an old AV I used, probably back in the Win 95 days. All I remember is a nice GUI, which kind of looked like AVG's interface when it still had the thug virus graphics (anyone remember that?), and the name is shadier in my memory, maybe I'll recognize it if I see it (I could say it might have been an old version of Ikarus, but I could be way off).

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This AVG and PC-Cillin came some time later, but were also some of my fist AVs. And McAfee & Norton too, came with a lot of PCs those days.
 
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BoraMurdar

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Oh, great thread! Maybe you'll help me identify an old AV I used, probably back in the Win 95 days. All I remember is a nice GUI, which kind of looked like AVG's interface when it still had the thug virus graphics (anyone remember that?), and the name is shadier in my memory, maybe I'll recognize it if I see it (I could say it might have been an old version of Ikarus, but I could be way off).

avg-eicar.PNG


This AVG and PC-Cillin came some time later, but were also some of my fist AVs. And McAfee & Norton too, came with a lot of PCs those days.
eScan or Fprot had a similar GUI, maybe?
 

BoraMurdar

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Norton then Mcafee when i did not know better and then my first free av RAV (Reliable Antivirus) from GECAD Software which
Microsoft purchased in 2003 to make Windows Live OneCare and i have not paid for AV since

:)

James
yeeees, I totally forgot about RAV :D , If you didn't mentioned it, it would probably never come across my mind again
 

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