>>>>> 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.
In article <Xns9DB5468D52166somewhere@69.16.185.250>,
whoever@wherever.invalid says...
<snip>
> For what it's worth, Avira's Anti-Vir or Avast are the two I recommend if
> you are looking for a free AV program. Antivir is the more effective of the
> two, but Avast is more user friendly for newbies to deal with.
>
>
>
<snip>
Microsoft updates every eight hours, Avast! updates every four hours
and it is FREE. Avira's Anti-Vir has excellent detection but the update
server is generally known to be slow.
--
James E. Morrow
Email to: jamesemorrow@email.com
On Jul 13, 9:54*pm, "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nosp...@Verizon.Net>
wrote:
> From: "Sam Spade" <sloopokes...@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.
Reformatted this computer with W7 back in February and Avira 10
wouldn't auto update. Tried it again last month and it still wouldn't
update. So, I'm still using Avira 9.
James Morrow <jamesemorrow@email.com> wrote in
news:MPG.26a8152c965dff6698975f@extreme.x-privat.org:
> In article <Xns9DB5468D52166somewhere@69.16.185.250>,
> whoever@wherever.invalid says...
><snip>
>
>> For what it's worth, Avira's Anti-Vir or Avast are the two I
>> recommend if you are looking for a free AV program. Antivir is the
>> more effective of the two, but Avast is more user friendly for
>> newbies to deal with.
>>
>>
>>
><snip>
>
> Microsoft updates every eight hours, Avast! updates every four hours
> and it is FREE. Avira's Anti-Vir has excellent detection but the
> update server is generally known to be slow.
There were problems there for a while, But I've had no problem with slow
updates for months now.
--
--- Everybody has a right to my opinion. ---
Ron <BigELilE05@msn.com> wrote in
news:8eb0640f-e4bf-4719-8220-29da97f19970@g19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com:
> On Jul 13, 9:54*pm, "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nosp...@Verizon.Net>
> wrote:
>> From: "Sam Spade" <sloopokes...@opto.net>
>>
>> | Just purchased Dell computer Windows 7 Home (64) and with it came
>> | McAfe
> e.
>> | Thought Windows 7 had anti virus but evidently not. Any feedback on
>> | McA
> fee?
>> | Sam
>>
>> Replace it with Avira AntiVir.
>
> Reformatted this computer with W7 back in February and Avira 10
> wouldn't auto update. Tried it again last month and it still wouldn't
> update. So, I'm still using Avira 9.
I dual boot Windows XP and Windows 7 and have Avira 10 in both installs. I
use XP most all the time, but the few times I go into Windows 7, Avira
updates itself during the first few minutes.
Windows 7 has Vista all beat to hell, but I still have software and
hardware issues. My computer is Windows 7 compatible but *I'm* not quite
yet... :-)
--
--- Everybody has a right to my opinion. ---
From: "Lil' Abner" <blvstk@dogpatch.com>
| James Morrow <jamesemorrow@email.com> wrote in
| news:MPG.26a8152c965dff6698975f@extreme.x-privat.org:
>> In article <Xns9DB5468D52166somewhere@69.16.185.250>,
>> whoever@wherever.invalid says...
>><snip>
>>> For what it's worth, Avira's Anti-Vir or Avast are the two I
>>> recommend if you are looking for a free AV program. Antivir is the
>>> more effective of the two, but Avast is more user friendly for
>>> newbies to deal with.
>><snip>
>> Microsoft updates every eight hours, Avast! updates every four hours
>> and it is FREE. Avira's Anti-Vir has excellent detection but the
>> update server is generally known to be slow.
| There were problems there for a while, But I've had no problem with slow
| updates for months now.
Same here...
--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
"Sam Spade" <sloopokespam@opto.net> wrote:
>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
Ditch it.
Go to the Microsoft website and download Security Essentials instead.
FredW <fredw@blackholespam.net> wrote:
>I just read that Microsoft considers an update every 8 hours sufficient.
>(but you must switch WindowsUpdate to automatic.)
I think it's ludicrous to update that frequently, but MS has taken so much
crap from people that they probably feel forced to do it.
>I have one av-application updating every hour
>and one av-application updating every two hours.
That's just plain stupid. STOOPID. All it does is tax an already taxed
Internet infrastructure.
"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.
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:19:32 +0200, FredW wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:55:47 -0500, M.L. <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
>>>| 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
>
> I just read that Microsoft considers an update every 8 hours sufficient.
Heheheh, what do you expect from a company who does not work on known
exploits until it is in the wild.
> I have one av-application updating every hour
> and one av-application updating every two hours.
>
> Silly guys at Microsoft.
> ;-)
With a new malware generated every 20 seconds, you are getting behind
as you read this reply. Not to mention the 1 to 6 weeks it takes AV
vendors to catch the new malware for analysis, coding, testing, and
roll out to the masses.
Read about the latest malware fire drill here.
http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=9190
Hard to believe this one spreads from one company network to another by just
usb drives.
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