re: #66 Rightwingconspirator

Who do you call if your machine gets infected anyway? It can happen. Mcafee’s people saved me from a format and re-install. Now I use their corporate not retail version-Virusscan enterprise 8.1 with the latest patch. I can lock up the registry so tight I have to deactivate that control to install new software. Can the microsoft product do that?

If you want/need that level of control and tech support, then use a paid software suite (IMO, McAfee’s corporate client is better than their consumer one by a longshot, Norton’s has improved a lot and dropped a lot of bloat, but for the money, NOD32 trumps them both [and most other paid AVs]).

I’m just saying (and I’m not the only geek saying it) that, for most people, paid AV is an unnecessary cost at $25-30+ bucks a year when MSE can do a more than serviceable job in protecting and cleaning most people’s systems. MSE may be relatively basic compared to most paid AVs, but for free, it’s good enough.