I just installed the new Microsoft Security Essentials. It is much better than Norton or McAfee. Much lighter. Much more well-integrated. Easier to use and configure. It gets its updates dynamically, and practically instaneously after they're available.
I have Norton installed on both my desktop and laptop. My Norton subscription for my laptop ends in 8 days. Right I'm thinking of getting a 1 year subscription to AVG Internet Security.
I have the Free Avast, I had the Free AVG before, but it kept crashing and a virus got through once when it crashed and I was having issues with my computer. Downloaded Avast and it got rid of the virus and then I got rid of AVG.
We've used Norton in the past, but it messed up one of our computers real bad. So it's been McAfee for the past 4 or 5 years, but boy, does it ever slow down the computer! I've learned not to do anything when the virus scan is running, but that takes 2 hours. And if I'm in the middle of something when McAfee decides to update itself, forget it.
I'm curious to see what others use and how they like it.
I just installed the new Microsoft Security Essentials. It is much better than Norton or McAfee. Much lighter. Much more well-integrated. Easier to use and configure. It gets its updates dynamically, and practically instaneously after they're available.
We use free Avast, too, after I finally put my foot down on Kasperky's renewal fee. Knock wood, but so far nothing has gotten through, and our pc runs much faster than it did with Kaspersky.
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