[nfbcs] most accessible virus/malware protection?

[Littlefield, Tyler]

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And thus the saga of the marry and peter continues.

I personally like Avast. I wish it were more acessible, but it's the
smallest most light weight system I've found so far.

On 1/13/2015 11:16 PM, Mary Donahue via nfbcs wrote:
> Hello Nicole and everyone,
> 
> Security Essentials got the boot from my wife's machine over an
> hour ago and was replaced by Avast. Avast has protected our other
> two machines very well. It should have been on this machine over a
> year ago as we're having a recurring problem with "Computer"
> freezing when you open a folder to select individual files. I was
> on the phone with Microsoft for almost 3 hours today trying to
> troubleshoot this issue to no avail. It seems as if the machine
> immediately got reinfected after they cleaned everything up. Once
> we're sure Avast is working properly we'll need to go through the
> same thing again. Here's hoping this problem won't happen in the
> future. Even Microsoft employees told me that their Security
> Essentials product is substandard to other antivirus products on
> the market. I'll make sure they deliver and fix these issues now
> that a real antivirus product has been installed on this machine
> and is working properly. They got $150.00 out of us for a support
> agreement. You can bet we'll make sure we'll get every cent out of
> that agreement to be sure Mary never has this problem again in the 
> future. Now to listen to a lecture on perspective. After this mess
> I need it.
> 
> Peter Donahue
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: nfbcs
> [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Nicole Torcolini via
> nfbcs Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 10:06 PM To: 'Mike Freeman';
> 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' Subject: Re: [nfbcs] most
> accessible virus/malware protection?
> 
> Are you also concerned about how good it is? Microsoft Security
> Essentials may be accessible, but, from my personal experience, it
> does not catch everything. Just my two cents.
> 
> Nicole
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: nfbcs
> [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mike Freeman via 
> nfbcs Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 7:54 AM To: 'David W Bundy';
> 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' Subject: Re: [nfbcs] most
> accessible virus/malware protection?
> 
> Microsoft security essentials
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: nfbcs
> [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of David W Bundy via 
> nfbcs Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 7:14 AM To: NFB in Computer
> Science Mailing List Subject: [nfbcs] most accessible virus/malware
> protection?
> 
> I have a consumer asking about the most accessible virus/malware
> protection available.  Since my expïrience is limited to what I've
> actually used, I thought I would throw it out to everyone for
> suggestions.
> 
> David W Bundy West Columbia, SC bundy at pobox.com Sent from my
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