RE: Anti-Virus Software Again

2014-04-19 Thread Bob W
I used Avast for several years and it seemed to be ok, apart from the annoying American voice telling me every time it updated itself. They changed it recently to an even more annoying English voice. Anyway, regardless of that, I switched to Microsoft Security Essentials on the recommendation of

Re: Anti-Virus Software Again

2014-04-19 Thread Paul
I've been using MS Security Essentials on our pre-Win8 machines and MS Windows Defender on the Win8 machines for a while now. No complaints on either and they seem to be keeping the bad guys out. -p On 4/19/2014 2:08 PM, Bob W wrote: I used Avast for several years and it seemed to be ok,

Re: Anti-Virus Software Again

2014-04-19 Thread Ann Sanfedele
Two of you guys recommended AVAST to me and BRian said it promised to support XP for 3 years... Havent had a chance to download it yet.. real life interfers ann On 4/19/2014 15:08, Bob W wrote: I used Avast for several years and it seemed to be ok, apart from the annoying American voice

Re: Anti-Virus Software Again

2014-04-19 Thread Mark C
Hi Ann - You might also want to consider downloading the free Malwarebytes AV app to use as a supplement to your core AV. The free version is not a real time protection product so you would not want to use only it, but it seems to be extremely effective in finding malware as a stand alone