Hi Mike, from this link: http://superuser.com/questions/738131/disable-the-security-essentials-end-of-life-warning-on-windows-xp
and confirmed by my personal experience, remain with MSE: - Download MSE from here http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=231274 and keep it for later use. - Uninstall MSE from Control panel. - Select 'Automatic updates' and opt for the second possibility (download and ask to install). - Install the downloaded version of Security Essentials. - The first time Windows Update asks you to update MSE, you say no and click that you do not want to be bothered again about this update. HTH, Gianni On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 13:32:45 -0500, Mike Copeland <[email protected]> wrote: I have several "clients" (lots of older people who pay me for help with home-made Apple pies, etc.) who are not only very happy with WinXP, they have no intention of replacing it (due to lack of $.) A few years ago, I switched all of them over to the Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) as an anti-virus solution, because it is very un-obtrusive...and free. Until now. As you probably know, MSE now pops up a warning about end of support...which has all my blue-haired gramma's, who just want to keep getting emails with pix of their grandkids, in a tizzy. So, all that to ask: What -free- anti-virus solutions are out there that do not pop up constant ("constant" = once a month or more) solicitations for subscribing? I'm aware of AVG, Avast, Kaspersky, McAfee, Avera, Norton, Eset, Trend, etc. etc. etc... Which is -free- and decent (not perfect) in performance? Thanks in advance for any and all feedback. And yes, I realize that they really really need to upgrade to Win7 or 8, but I'm talking about clients who routinely have the audacity of dying before baking my pie-payment! They don't have a spare $150 laying around (and while I would love to switch them to Linux, they're comfortable with Windows XP.) Mike C _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
