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From: Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 2 May 2010 17:26 Stephen Wolstenholme wrote: > Try Microsoft Security Essentials I read this somewhere important... "Why would you trust a security application that was written by the same people whose operating system *requires* one (or more)?" -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul
From: Stephen Wolstenholme on 2 May 2010 17:39 On Sun, 2 May 2010 15:18:00 -0400, "jch" <jch(a)nospam.com> wrote: >Stephen Wolstenholme wrote: >> On Sun, 02 May 2010 09:23:03 -0400, touch wrote: >> >>> I can not get the new avast to run. Error says " Failed to start, >>> side by side configeration is incorrect" >>> I removed Avast 4 using their unstall program. >>> Can anyone recomend a free anti-virus program that I can try ? >>> Thanks for any and all help. >> >> Try Microsoft Security Essentials >> >> Steve > >I wouldn't advise MSE. I tried it and it bogged down my system to the point >of being unusable. YMMV but for me it was awful. I removed it after a day >and went with AVG9. My XP Pro XP3 system with a 1.6GHz CPU and 1G RAM went >back to its happy quick self immediately. > After testing MSE on a XP PC for a few month I installed it on many other PC's varying from XP to W7 and have never had a problem. In fact it works better than every other anti-virus application that I have ever used and I have used most. Steve -- Neural Planner Software Ltd www.NPSL1.com EasyNN-plus. Neural Networks plus. www.easynn.com SwingNN. Forecast with Neural Networks. www.swingnn.com JustNN. Just Neural Networks. www.justnn.com
From: David H. Lipman on 2 May 2010 17:50 From: "Stephen Wolstenholme" <steve(a)tropheus.demon.co.uk> | On Sun, 2 May 2010 15:18:00 -0400, "jch" <jch(a)nospam.com> wrote: >>Stephen Wolstenholme wrote: >>> On Sun, 02 May 2010 09:23:03 -0400, touch wrote: >>>> I can not get the new avast to run. Error says " Failed to start, >>>> side by side configeration is incorrect" >>>> I removed Avast 4 using their unstall program. >>>> Can anyone recomend a free anti-virus program that I can try ? >>>> Thanks for any and all help. >>> Try Microsoft Security Essentials >>> Steve >>I wouldn't advise MSE. I tried it and it bogged down my system to the point >>of being unusable. YMMV but for me it was awful. I removed it after a day >>and went with AVG9. My XP Pro XP3 system with a 1.6GHz CPU and 1G RAM went >>back to its happy quick self immediately. | After testing MSE on a XP PC for a few month I installed it on many | other PC's varying from XP to W7 and have never had a problem. In fact | it works better than every other anti-virus application that I have | ever used and I have used most. "...better than every other anti-virus application..." Based upon what criteria ? -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 2 May 2010 18:47 ASCII wrote: > Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >> "Why would you trust a security application that was written by the >> same people whose operating system *requires* one (or more)?" > > (easy answer) > Because those authors best know their own operating system and can > most likely best address the malevolent attempts of others to thwart > or corrupt it. <LOL!> -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul
From: gufus on 2 May 2010 20:24
Hello, Stephen! You wrote on Sun, 02 May 2010 22:39:54 +0100: >> after a day and went with AVG9. My XP Pro XP3 system with a 1.6GHz CPU >> and 1G RAM went back to its happy quick self immediately. >> | | After testing MSE on a XP PC for a few month I installed it on many XP... the "Swiss cheese " of OS's IMHO -- With best regards, gufus. E-mail: stop.nospam.gbbsg(a)shaw.ca |