my Toshiba portégé came with mc afee preinstalled so it is a good thing my ISP offers complimentary mc afee or I'd have to worry about how to do a /full/ uninstall - thing i hate most about antivirus is how deeply it lodges itself in my system
2011/2/28 Paul Stenquist <[email protected]>: > > On Feb 27, 2011, at 7:06 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: > >> Paul, >> My internet service provider was SBC and now AT&T. >> They provide free McAfee downloading. >> Check your provider. >> They don't offer it up easily. >> Regards, Bob S. > > I have comcast. I don't know if they will provide virus protection. In any > case, I followed Matt's suggestion and downloaded the Microsoft software. It > was easy. That's a good thing: > > Paul >> >> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Bob W <[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 >>> >>> I've been using the free version of Avast! for several years and am >>> perfectly satisfied with it. >>> >>> B >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > > > -- > 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.
