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Do you have a friend, relative or acquaintance that has a high-speed connection that can down load a copy, put it on CD and mail it to you?
Most commercial products have a 30 or 60 day trial and you might as well make lemonade out of lemons and try some other vendors, comparing:
-features / interface
-speed, accuracy, ability to deal with threats
-resource conservation (i.e. not a memory/cpu hog)
-e-mail, live chat and/or phone support
If you don’t like a particular product, move on with no regrets.
The industry ‘leaders’ like Norton have fouled the nest with their resource hog bloatware.
I have used ESET (http://eset.com) for several years and it is fast, solid and trouble-free.
Buy the DVD or CD..
Switch AV applications. Eset Smart Security is the best money can buy IMO, and you can also get the AV component separately under the name NOD32. Free options include Microsoft Security Essentials (which is actually very good despite being a Microsoft product), Avira AntiVir, and AVG.
What is this “dial up” of which you speak?
So you're the one. Dump it or pony up the dough to buy a damn disc.
Using dial up to do today's online work is akin to pulling up a Pentium 133Mhz with 50 MB of RAM and trying to install Windows 7 on it. In other words - LMFAO!
IMHO...
Have a unix techie help you download and install CentOS.
Close all ports.
OpenOffice replaces the basic m$oft cr@pware.
Evolution email, Mozilla Firefox browser.
Cost = $0.00, you’ll have no viruses and never look back :>!)
Oh, instead of Dialup, use Verizon Wireless.
Works anywhere a Verizon cell phone does. They have the largest, best “footprint”, i.e., cover the country the best.
Fast enough for nice browsing. Can download reasonably well (far better than dialup).
They do have a monthly cap on data tranfer, used to be 2G for $40 (ok unless you’re crazy surfing / watching a lot of video) or 5G for maybe twice that (ok unless your watching a lot of video).
They stopped selling unlimited access.
If you never ever leave the house and can get cable-based internet, it’s alot faster and you should be fine downloading anything and watching video, for about the same price.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security_essentials/default.aspx
fast download, easy to use, free.
you could always put it on a flash drive when you go to the big city, lol... library pcs, etc.
if you have a laptop or netbook, you can park outside the library and get it...
Maybe you can do the download at a library. Can’t hurt to ask.