[Ham-Computers] Antivirus Software Comments

[Mike]

Dump both McAfee and please don't install Norton.

Avast and AVG are both very good, and both have free editions.
Just be sure when downloading either you're getting the free antivirus 
program, not the paid one or one of the snake-oil registry ruiners, the 
download pages can easily lead you astray.

73, Mike NF4L

WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> 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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