Having dealt with Kaspersky professionally (I helped integrate their OEM stuff into my former company's security products, and I dealt with Mr Kaspersky himself), I would recommend that _very_ highly. Super responsive to changing threats and less intrusive than many products.
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:40 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > > We have recebtly accquired a new PC for use at home. > > For the last heaven knows how many years we've used AVG > Internet Security on all our home systems, but I'm less > than happy with trying to get AVG up and running on this > new system. HP, in their infinite wisdom, installed a > trial version of McAfee's competing product on the machine, > and AVG fails when it tries to install itself in place of > the McAfee product. AVG support seems to be unresponsive, > and the advice from their forums is for me to remove McAfee > before trying to install AVG. I might be prepared to do > this, were it not for two issues: 1) several people who have > tried this report that it still doesn't work, and 2) since > AVG installs via a network download (rather than allowing me > to create a standalone install package first, then disconnect > from the internet) I'd have to have an unprotected machine > with a live internet connection during the install, with no > guarantee that I'd end up with a successful installation. > Given that, and the lack of response from AVG support, > I'm looking for an alternative solution. > > I've asked a few people I know for recommendations, and I've > been pointed to either Kaspersky or Avast as good products. > Nobody, however, seemed to think that relying on the McAfee > product was a particularly good idea. > > Would anyone care to weigh in on the subject, and let me know > what they would recommend for someone in my situation? > > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
