On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote:
> My wife has a PC, because I didn't want to spend the money to get her a > Mac:-). Seriously, all she does is e-mail and a bit of web surfing, and her > Acer laptop works fine. It came with McAfee virus protection, but it has > expired and they want $40 a year to continue. Sounds like a lot. Is there a > better option? Something inexpensive that I won't have to set up? Something > that will install itself if I go to the website and click on it? I have no > idea how one installs software on a PC, although I suspect it's not very hard. I use Microsoft Security Essentials on all of our home computers. It's free and reasonably unobtrusive. It's tricky to test antimalware software, but in the "round up reviews" I've seen, it usually does quite well. Once it's installed, it will update automatically via Windows Update, which should already be running. http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ I used to use AVG Free, which also tends to do well in the reviews, but I got tired of playing "find the hidden link to the free version and then parse the quadruple negatives to avoid installing crapware with it" every time they released a new major version. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
