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I am a soldier in the U.S. Army, and I noticed that you

recommended the soldier download and install AVG Antivirus and

ZoneAlarm. However, something that many soldiers don't seem to

realize (and I hope you'll help make them aware of this), is

that the U.S. Army has a contract with both Norton/Symantec,

McAfee, and Trend Micro, which allows soldiers to download and

install Norton/Symantec, McAfee, and Trend Micro Antivirus,

Firewalls, and other system security software that they sell

to corporations. These are not just your standard consumer

versions, but the full corporate versions of their software,

such as Symantec Anti-Virus Corporate edition version 9.02,

Symantec Client Security, and McAfee Virus scan Enterprise.

This software is available to soldiers completely free,

provided they have access to their Army Web account.

All a soldier has to do, is log on to the web, (which I

understand is hard to do over in Iraq due to limited

bandwidth/systems available), go to their AKO (Army Knowledge

Online; http://www.us.army.mil/ ) account, log in, and click

on Antivirus Services (on the left of the Army Website Portal

for AKO). This then takes them to the links where they can

download the appropriate software that they want).

I hope you find this information useful! Marc Wayman SFC, USA

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I am a soldier in the U.S. Army, and I noticed that you

recommended the soldier download and install AVG Antivirus and

ZoneAlarm. However, something that many soldiers don't seem to

realize (and I hope you'll help make them aware of this), is

that the U.S. Army has a contract with both Norton/Symantec,

McAfee, and Trend Micro, which allows soldiers to download and

install Norton/Symantec, McAfee, and Trend Micro Antivirus,

Firewalls, and other system security software that they sell

to corporations. These are not just your standard consumer

versions, but the full corporate versions of their software,

such as Symantec Anti-Virus Corporate edition version 9.02,

Symantec Client Security, and McAfee Virus scan Enterprise.

This software is available to soldiers completely free,

provided they have access to their Army Web account.

All a soldier has to do, is log on to the web, (which I

understand is hard to do over in Iraq due to limited

bandwidth/systems available), go to their AKO (Army Knowledge

Online; http://www.us.army.mil/ ) account, log in, and click

on Antivirus Services (on the left of the Army Website Portal

for AKO). This then takes them to the links where they can

download the appropriate software that they want).

I hope you find this information useful! Marc Wayman SFC, USA

Marc - thanks for the information. I am sure some of our military folks did not know this and your post will help them with their computer security needs.

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Thanx Marc ! :)

Question.. is this Army specific or does any branch of the service qualify.. Navy, ie. ?

Let me know.. and thanx again.

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In truth folks I don't know & I am not the guy writing the letter *blushing now* I found this article sent in somewhere in something I was reading & thought, hey I will post that in the military section & maybe someone can make use of it. Sorry but I was having trouble figuring out how to use the quote option of the board so I just posted it as it was copied. :imbar :imbar :imbar

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