Anti Virus

[Sam Spade]

Just purchased Dell computer Windows 7 Home (64) and with it came McAfee.
Thought Windows 7 had anti virus but evidently not. Any feedback on McAfee?
Sam

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Sam Spade" <sloopokespam@opto.net>

| Just purchased Dell computer Windows 7 Home (64) and with it came McAfee.
| Thought Windows 7 had anti virus but evidently not. Any feedback on McAfee?
| Sam


Replace it with Avira AntiVir.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

[JD]

David H. Lipman wrote:
> From: "Sam Spade"<sloopokespam@opto.net>
>
> | Just purchased Dell computer Windows 7 Home (64) and with it came McAfee.
> | Thought Windows 7 had anti virus but evidently not. Any feedback on McAfee?
> | Sam
>
>
> Replace it with Avira AntiVir.
>

Any reason you didn't post a link?

http://www.free-av.com/

How much better is this than my free Avast antivirus? Remember, JD is
curious. 8-)


--
JD..

[David H. Lipman]

From: "JD" <JD@example.invalid>

| David H. Lipman wrote:
>> From: "Sam Spade"<sloopokespam@opto.net>

>> | Just purchased Dell computer Windows 7 Home (64) and with it came McAfee.
>> | Thought Windows 7 had anti virus but evidently not. Any feedback on McAfee?
>> | Sam


>> Replace it with Avira AntiVir.


| Any reason you didn't post a link?

| http://www.free-av.com/

| How much better is this than my free Avast antivirus? Remember, JD is
| curious. 8-)


I just didn't post a URL.

One thing is support. Their's is not great. I remember the VBS:Zulu False Positive that
took ~60 days to be corrected.


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

[M.L.]

>| Just purchased Dell computer Windows 7 Home (64) and with it came McAfee.
>| Thought Windows 7 had anti virus but evidently not. Any feedback on McAfee?

Replace it with the free Microsoft Security Essentials.

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/?mkt=en-us

[Lil' Abner]

M.L. <me@privacy.invalid> wrote in
news:gv1s36541hveplssafs3oc6n4dv83vve49@4ax.com:

>
>
>>| Just purchased Dell computer Windows 7 Home (64) and with it came
>>| McAfee. Thought Windows 7 had anti virus but evidently not. Any
>>| feedback on McAfee?
>
> Replace it with the free Microsoft Security Essentials.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/?mkt=en-us

And watch your computer slow down.

--
--- Everybody has a right to my opinion. ---

[Daave]

Lil' Abner wrote:
> M.L. <me@privacy.invalid> wrote in
> news:gv1s36541hveplssafs3oc6n4dv83vve49@4ax.com:
>
>>
>>
>>>> Just purchased Dell computer Windows 7 Home (64) and with it came
>>>> McAfee. Thought Windows 7 had anti virus but evidently not. Any
>>>> feedback on McAfee?
>>
>> Replace it with the free Microsoft Security Essentials.
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/?mkt=en-us
>
> And watch your computer slow down.

I'd like to know the experiences of others. Is MSE really that bad?

[Lil' Abner]

"Daave" <daave@example.com> wrote in news:i1nks9$ani$1@news.eternal-
september.org:

> Lil' Abner wrote:
>> M.L. <me@privacy.invalid> wrote in
>> news:gv1s36541hveplssafs3oc6n4dv83vve49@4ax.com:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Just purchased Dell computer Windows 7 Home (64) and with it came
>>>>> McAfee. Thought Windows 7 had anti virus but evidently not. Any
>>>>> feedback on McAfee?
>>>
>>> Replace it with the free Microsoft Security Essentials.
>>>
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/?mkt=en-us
>>
>> And watch your computer slow down.
>
> I'd like to know the experiences of others. Is MSE really that bad?

Well, you can Google and find out for yourself. I ditched it for 6 months
or so and then I put it back, thinking maybe they'd ironed the problem out.
They hadn't, so I'm back to the free version of Avira again.
There was one process, ms???eng.exe (can't recall the exact name now) that
would eat up processor power for over a minute at a time. Office documents
were delayed 3 or 4 seconds in opening.
It's free, so I suggest you install it and judge it for yourself. I know
there's people out there who swear by it. I'm just not one of them. :-)

--
--- Everybody has a right to my opinion. ---

[M.L.]

>>>>> Just purchased Dell computer Windows 7 Home (64) and with it came
>>>>> McAfee. Thought Windows 7 had anti virus but evidently not. Any
>>>>> feedback on McAfee?
>>>
>>> Replace it with the free Microsoft Security Essentials.
>>>
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/?mkt=en-us
>>
>> And watch your computer slow down.
>
>I'd like to know the experiences of others. Is MSE really that bad?

No problems with MSSE on my Vista system.

[David Kaye]

"Lil' Abner" <blvstk@dogpatch.com> wrote:

>And watch your computer slow down.
>

I've installed MSSE on several dozen computers. It only slowed down one. It
was running a Pentium 3. I put in Avast instead and that works fine. Other
computers have had no problem. I'm not sure why MSSE bogged down on the one
computer, though.