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From: Lil' Abner on 16 Jul 2010 09:40 Ron <BigELilE05(a)msn.com> wrote in news:8eb0640f-e4bf-4719-8220-29da97f19970(a)g19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com: > On Jul 13, 9:54�pm, "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nosp...(a)Verizon.Net> > wrote: >> From: "Sam Spade" <sloopokes...(a)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: David H. Lipman on 16 Jul 2010 15:59 From: "Lil' Abner" <blvstk(a)dogpatch.com> | James Morrow <jamesemorrow(a)email.com> wrote in | news:MPG.26a8152c965dff6698975f(a)extreme.x-privat.org: >> In article <Xns9DB5468D52166somewhere(a)69.16.185.250>, >> whoever(a)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
From: David Kaye on 19 Jul 2010 16:50 "Sam Spade" <sloopokespam(a)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.
From: David Kaye on 19 Jul 2010 16:53 "Lil' Abner" <blvstk(a)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.
From: Bit Twister on 19 Jul 2010 19:25
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:19:32 +0200, FredW wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:55:47 -0500, M.L. <me(a)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. |