[Ham-Computers] Antivirus Software Comments

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Ed,

Thanks.  Considering Microsoft's performance over the past few years 
(Millennium, Vista, etc) it seemed to fall under "if it seems too good to be 
true...".  But someone else had recently mentioned it here in favorable terms.  
And the guy whom I bought Susie's replacement machine from has been in the 
computer business continuously since the 80's and it is now what they put on 
all machines they sell.

Are you running anything else in addition?  

In a message dated 3/25/2010 7:15:48 AM Central Daylight Time, 
k9ew57 at gmail.com writes: 
> I subscribe to an online "Windows Secrets" magazine, and they speak
> highly of it.  It's quite small, very inconspicuous, doesn't take over
> your PC, and I've been using it for about a month with no problems on
> my two XP machines.
> 
> I know we're always suspicious of a Microsoft product, but this one
> looks like a keeper.
> 
> 73,
> ed - k9ew
> 
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:52 PM,  <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
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