Have the free versions of antivirus software been updated for Win7 by now?
My son's inlaws have a new Win7 system which came with a 60-day trial version of Mcafee. I suggested they consider running the free version of AVG or AVIRA but I don't know if ether of them support Win7. If not, are there other free A/V packages that have Win7 support?
I don't mean to hijack the thread or anything, but why do you recommend not using Avast? I use it on my PC and used it on my old laptop and it worked well both on Windows 7 and XP. It served me well.
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I installed MS SEcurity Essentials on my system to give it a try and I notice that starting any new tasks, opening files or email seem to be taking a long time. Task Manager is showing MsMpEng.exe and the largest memory and CPU user. I understand it is a component of Essentials.
I installed MS SEcurity Essentials on my system to give it a try and I notice that starting any new tasks, opening files or email seem to be taking a long time. Task Manager is showing MsMpEng.exe and the largest memory and CPU user. I understand it is a component of Essentials.
Never had any problems like that, when you first install MSE it runs a scan and updates, I have installed that on a number of computers without problems. take a look at screen shot below and that's while running a scan. when its not its idle at %2
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AVG is way more of system hog than MSE, considering MSE is only 6MB compared to AVG's 67MB or something like that, you may need to look at something else causing problems. that just docent sit right using that much system resources .
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I just downloaded AVIRA from the CNET downloads site and I notice that Win7 is NOT listed in the spec's. Is there another version for Win7 or have they just neglected to upate the description of the system specifications?