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Ten free security utilities you should be using

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Published: 31 Jul 2007 13:06 BST

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Active Virus Shield
America Online's Active Virus Shield, powered by Kaspersky Lab, is one of the better free antivirus packages available for Windows users. The program installs smoothly, pulls down hourly virus definition signatures from Kaspersky Lab and features real-time protection (including email scanning).

 

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