BR>* An ongoing debate between Ed Vance and BEN RITCHEY rages on ...

BR> EV> I have read comments on FIDO about McAfee's product not being as
BR> EV> highly rated as some other anti-virus products so I've thought about
BR> EV> using either Avast Free or AVG Free instead of the McAfee suite.

BR>I had to un-install Mcafee under Wins 7, it was unstable, system kept locking
BR>up. Norton is too bloated for my liking, so I settled on MS Security Essentia
BR>plus the Windows Firewall and all is quiet here. ;-)

Thanks Ben,

I have heard good reports of MS's Security Essentials but because I used
a MS anti-virus program called Microsoft Safety Scanner MSERT.EXE some
time ago and it said it 'found' some questionable files and offered me a
change to keep them if I wanted to, so I told it not to do anything to
those files by selecting the button for that, but when I got to the next
screen it had 'PARTIALLY REMOVED' two files that were not in the list
they showed me on the previous screen.

That left a bad taste in my mouth for MS "Drive Scanner" programs.

Have you or any others who use MS SE had a experience like that?

I'd like to hear if MS SE is trustworthy.  Thanks!


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