On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:52 +1100, "Peter McIntosh" <peter...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28 February 2011 08:44, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> > 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. 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
