On Feb 27, 2011, at 5:13 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:52 +1100, "Peter McIntosh" <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 28 February 2011 08:44, 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. >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any help on this. >>> >>> Paul >>> -- >> >> Paul, >> >> I've been using the free, home version Avira anti-virus on up to 7 >> machines at home for years with minimal issues. It's worked a treat >> for me. You can get it here: >> >> http://www.avira.com/en/for-home >> > > > > In a similar vein, I've used the free AVG and Avast on various PCs for > years and both work fine. So far, both programs have caught the odd > virus-infected file that might have caused problems and (to the best of > my knowledge) my PCs have remained uninfected. > > Thanks Brian. Much appreciated. Paul > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > -- > > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and > love email again > > > -- > 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.
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