When you go to the security essentials homepage you can also be one of the first to try the IE9 beta (banner) ;)
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Chris Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: > Microsoft Security Essentials works fine. > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Greg Keogh > *Sent:* Friday, 18 March 2011 9:29 AM > *To:* 'ozDotNet' > *Subject:* [OT] Anti-Virus replacement for AVG > > > > Folks, after much web browsing, discussion and head-scratching about a year > ago I picked AVG free edition over the dozens of choices. It seemed to have > a good reputation and it didn't seem too intrusive. > > > > Since then, one friend with AVG free has had a machine infected 3 times, > another friend had 2 infections, and my wife's work machine got one hit. In > most cases I could go into safe mode, disable the infection registry entries > and then AVG would detect and clean the virus. One machine was so utterly > screwed twice that it had to be formatted each time. In all cases AVG was > disabled or deleted by the infection. > > > > AVG seems to be worse than useless, so I'm wondering what AV product people > here recommend for home PC use and satisfies the following specs: > > > > 1. It actually stops viruses (no kidding?!?) > > 2. It's not too intrusive in the UI (banners, popups, tray icons, context > menus, etc) > > 3. It doesn't have side-effects (degrades performance, conflicts with other > apps, etc) > > > > I reckon that asking for all of these things together is too much, but I > might find a compromise. > > > > Cheers, > > Greg >
