All Free Anti Virus

By admin • 2006

Free Online Virus Scan . . .
. . Free IF You Are An SBC Yahoo! DSL User

The Dashboard

Note: Sbc Yahoo! Online Protection is becoming more widely known as AT&T Yahoo! Online Protection . . . . see footnote.

You will observe from the above “Dashboard” graphic that SBC Yahoo! Online Protection is a whole suite of online security software, covering –

• Anti-Spyware;
  
• Anti-Virus;
  
• Pop-up Blocker;
  
• Parental Controls;
  
• SBC Yahoo! Mail Protection.

We will only concern ourselves here with the Anti-Virus, which was supplied to SBC Yahoo! by Computer Associates.

Using the Dashboard you can set the Anti-Virus, as you would expect, to –

• continually scan incoming files;
  
• turn the Anti-Virus on or off;
  
• initiate a deep file scan at scheduled times;
  
• initiate a deep file scan manually;
  
• scan only a section of your files

Because we (allfreeantivirus.com) are not yet users of AT&T DSL ( = SBC DSL ) we are not in a position to personally investigate the Anti-Virus.
As with all such programs it has those who claim it is the answer to everything, right through the spectrum to those who decry it.

Footnote. Brief History of AT&T

1984. To comply with Federal directives AT&T was divided resulting in the formation of SBC Labs.
1996. AT&T Corp and SBC Communications Inc joined to form AT&T Inc.
Later AT&T form a partnership with Yahoo!
2005. SBC Yahoo! DSL release their Online Protection suite.
Today (early 2006) AT&T Inc. is the no. 1 U.S. provider of broadband DSL - 7.4 million lines in service.

TRADEMARKS. ‘AT&T’, ‘AT&T Inc.’,  ‘SBC’, ’Yahoo!’, ‘Computer Associates’ are not associated with allfreeantivirus.com but pertain to, or are owned by their respective companies.
created 2006
21jan08 - transferred to new format