On Feb 27, 2011, at 5:11 PM, Matthew Hunt wrote: > 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/
Thanks Matt. Installed and running. That was painless. Paul > > 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. -- 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.
