[Ham-Computers] Antivirus Software Comments

[Loren Moline WA7SKT]

Robert,

I use AVG and have for years! Never had a virus propagate on my machines.

 
Loren   WA7SKT

 
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> From: WA5CAB at cs.com
> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:52:17 -0400
> To: Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Ham-Computers] Antivirus Software Comments
> 
> 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
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