[Ham-Computers] Antivirus Software Comments

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Group.

We have three machines on line here and for the past couple of years have 
been running McAfee because (a) it's free to us from our 
ISP (Comcast) and (b) two of the machines were still running Windows 2000 
which Norton quit supporting.  I tried a couple of other brands but found 
them very intrusive.  

Comcast suddenly decided to switch to Norton.  For unrelated reasons I 
decided to convert the two W2K machines to XP.  Then I had to replace one of the 
machines (which apropos of nothing related to this message I bought from 
the guy I bought my first Commodore 64 from) and the replacement came with 
Microsoft Security_Essentials installed.  Although with all the machines 
running XP I could just download Norton, the guy I bought the new machine from 
strongly recommended the MS product instead.

Any comments one way or the other?  

Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480