[Elecraft] Legitimate software vs. antivirus (was: Spectrogram)

[Don Wilhelm]

  For Windows, there is yet another choice that is both good and free of 
cost - Microsoft Securities Essentials.
It seems to work in the background and so far has produced no false 
positives, nor has it let any viruses into my computers.  It does want 
to do a scan occasionally, and updates daily with no interruption to my 
normal activities.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 12/30/2010 4:50 PM, Erik Basilier wrote:
> It occurred to me that AVG might be overzealous, and from the comments about
> Spectrogram I am reminded about it.
>
> Another observation is that that computer has become very prone to slowness
> for several minutes after startup.
>
> The workaround seems to be to leave it on. I guess AVG updates itself more
> than Norton.
>
> I also had to configure it not to do scans all the time.
>
> Another computer, a new and fast one running Win 7, recently came up with a
> message from AVG saying that the registry was messed up. I was offered to
> get it fixed one time free, and to pay for it in the future. I declined,
> deciding to use other methods to clean up the registry. I am used to getting
> registry cleanup offers from highly suspect sources, and I always decline.
> Now it seems like the nice price of AVG is only bait so they can hook you.
> Hmmm. maybe even Norton included free registry fixes; I don't remember.
>
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