Best Spyware, Malware Recommendation
I've used the FREE AVG for several years. Wondering if there is a better FREE product out there. I am using Windows 8. THANKS!
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Still using XP on an '06 Gateway laptop with a single core Celeron M 430 w/ 1GB RAM and only 60 GB hard drive (half full). Stayed w/ MSE and it is doing its daily definition update and quickscan. Sometimes let MSE do a full scan, but mostly rely on Malwarebytes for biweekly (2 weeks) full scans which very rarely finds anything.
The following quote is from MS speaking about MSE a year ago>
"With Microsoft Security Essentials, you get high-quality protection against viruses and spyware, including Trojans, worms and other malicious software. Security Essentials is easy to install and easy to use. Updates and upgrades are automatic, so there's no need to worry about having the latest protection. It's easy to tell if you're protected - when the Security Essentials icon is green, your status is good. It's as simple as that."
When you're busy using your PC, you don't want to be bothered by needless alerts. Security Essentials runs quietly in the background, only alerting you if there's something you need to do. And it doesn't use a lot of system resources, so it won't get in the way of your work or fun."
MSE is doing as good a job w/ XP as it has for many years, so the quote above still holds, except since April 8 and MS's end-of-XP-support, "when the Security Essentials icon is green, your status is good. It's as simple as that" no longer holds for XP. Instead, for XP users only, a red X shows after a scan, even though the scan almost always reports no threats were detected. For other Windows OSs that are using MSE, the green checkmark still shows. This redX for XPers is to remind that MS no longer patches XP for new-found bugs. I can live w/ it as long as this ole PC runs.
In many ways, I have a MS Chromebook, only instead of Chrome and Chrome OS, I have Firefox and Windows XP. The reinstalled XP OS is pretty clean of bloat and takes 12 GB hard drive storage, with another 9 GB for programs and some data files. Sure hope Firefox comes ot w/ a Mozillabook one day for when my sized-right-for-me laptop fails.
The following quote is from MS speaking about MSE a year ago>
"With Microsoft Security Essentials, you get high-quality protection against viruses and spyware, including Trojans, worms and other malicious software. Security Essentials is easy to install and easy to use. Updates and upgrades are automatic, so there's no need to worry about having the latest protection. It's easy to tell if you're protected - when the Security Essentials icon is green, your status is good. It's as simple as that."
When you're busy using your PC, you don't want to be bothered by needless alerts. Security Essentials runs quietly in the background, only alerting you if there's something you need to do. And it doesn't use a lot of system resources, so it won't get in the way of your work or fun."
MSE is doing as good a job w/ XP as it has for many years, so the quote above still holds, except since April 8 and MS's end-of-XP-support, "when the Security Essentials icon is green, your status is good. It's as simple as that" no longer holds for XP. Instead, for XP users only, a red X shows after a scan, even though the scan almost always reports no threats were detected. For other Windows OSs that are using MSE, the green checkmark still shows. This redX for XPers is to remind that MS no longer patches XP for new-found bugs. I can live w/ it as long as this ole PC runs.
In many ways, I have a MS Chromebook, only instead of Chrome and Chrome OS, I have Firefox and Windows XP. The reinstalled XP OS is pretty clean of bloat and takes 12 GB hard drive storage, with another 9 GB for programs and some data files. Sure hope Firefox comes ot w/ a Mozillabook one day for when my sized-right-for-me laptop fails.
