[Ham-Computers] Antivirus Software Comments

[Ed - K9EW]

I'm not using anything else for antivirus (except the protection that
Mozilla Firefox, Google email and Yahoo email use for their own
protection).

But I do use Zone Alarm to keep incoming and outgoing connections
under control (my firewall).

I recently did a check using Shields Up online testing
(https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2) to test the security of my PC,
and it did very well.  The website was one recommended by my Windows
Secrets e-magazine.

I think this covers the basics pretty well without bringing my 1.8 GHz
PC to a grinding halt.

73 - ed, k9ew

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:55 AM,  <WA5CAB at cs.com> wrote:
> 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
> wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
> MVPA 9480
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