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From: n o s p a m p l e a s e on 8 Jan 2010 17:23
What free antivirus would you like to install?
From: William R. Walsh on 8 Jan 2010 17:28
If those are the only two choices, Microsoft Security Essentials would
be it.

It seems to work extremely well on a 1.7GHz OptiPlex GX400.

I tried Avira once on a lesser machine, and while its performance was
fine, I did not like the forced advertising that showed up (once per
day as I remember). Also, their download server seemed to be
perpetually out of breath and bandwidth for the initial download and
subsequent updates.

William
From: powrwrap on 8 Jan 2010 18:28
> On Jan 8, 4:28 pm, "William R. Walsh" <wm_wa...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> If those are the only two choices, Microsoft Security Essentials would
> be it.

I just made the switch from AVG Free to Microsoft Security Essentials.
So far, I'm pleased with it.

Rating of free anti-virus programs here:

http://lifehacker.com/5433229/microsoft-security-essentials-ranks-as-best+performing-free-antivirus



From: GrtArtiste on 8 Jan 2010 19:05
On Jan 8, 5:28 pm, "William R. Walsh" <wm_wa...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> I tried Avira once on a lesser machine, and while its performance was
> fine, I did not like the forced advertising that showed up (once per
> day as I remember). Also, their download server seemed to be
> perpetually out of breath and bandwidth for the initial download and
> subsequent updates.

If their download server is occasionally slow...it's only an
indication of how popular Avira is. As for the ad **yawn** it
disappears with one click. Small price to pay if you can't be bothered
to Google on how to disable it.

GrtArtiste
From: Rick on 8 Jan 2010 19:50
If you look at Avira's website you learn that the way to get quicker updates
is to upgrade to one of their their non-free versions.


"GrtArtiste" <grtartiste(a)aol.com> wrote in message
news:e9d8e338-a443-4607-9868-45c03d2cad2c(a)c34g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
On Jan 8, 5:28 pm, "William R. Walsh" <wm_wa...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> I tried Avira once on a lesser machine, and while its performance was
> fine, I did not like the forced advertising that showed up (once per
> day as I remember). Also, their download server seemed to be
> perpetually out of breath and bandwidth for the initial download and
> subsequent updates.

If their download server is occasionally slow...it's only an
indication of how popular Avira is. As for the ad **yawn** it
disappears with one click. Small price to pay if you can't be bothered
to Google on how to disable it.

GrtArtiste


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