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..

[siljaline]

Sam Spade 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?

ESET NOD32 V4
<http://www.eset.com/home/nod32-antivirus>

I use it, many I know in the security community use it, I support it.

Silj


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- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

[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

[Whoever]

"Sam Spade" <sloopokespam@opto.net> wrote in
news:4c3d10a2$0$5010$607ed4bc@cv.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


Of all of the systems I've cleaned up over the last year or so, roughly
40% of them were running McAfee when they became infected. Not that any AV
solution is 100% perfect, but McAfee seems to be less effective than even
some of the free AV programs.

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.

For my own systems, I recommend ESET's NOD32 to my commercial customers
and/or those looking for a "pay" AV solution. It's also what I have on my
own systems.


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[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.

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[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. :-)

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