McAfee trial ending question

Computer (Vista premium) came installed with McAfee. Trial period is almost
over. Downloaded AVG Anti virus and have Windows Defender installed. Is this
adequate protection? Or is McAfee also needed?

"soulskier" <soulskier@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Computer (Vista premium) came installed with McAfee. Trial period is
> almost
> over. Downloaded AVG Anti virus and have Windows Defender installed. Is
> this
> adequate protection? Or is McAfee also needed?


AVG,Defender and the Windows firewall should provide adequate protection.

--
Jim

Should be adequate but be careful not to have 2 anti-virus applications
installed together. They will clash., i.e. AVG or McAfee VirusScan but
not both.

--
Peter
Toronto, Canada
XP Pro SP2 x 2 + Vista Ultimate
P4 HT @ 3.00ghz, 4.0gb RAM, 700gb HDD

"soulskier" <soulskier@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:466D7AD3-51A6-4772-9763-1E1FF6817360@microsoft.com...
> Computer (Vista premium) came installed with McAfee. Trial period is
> almost
> over. Downloaded AVG Anti virus and have Windows Defender installed. Is
> this
> adequate protection? Or is McAfee also needed?

Peter wrote:
> Should be adequate but be careful not to have 2 anti-virus applications
> installed together. They will clash., i.e. AVG or McAfee VirusScan
> but not both.

There is nothing wrong with using two anti-virus systems.
(It's not sensible, but it should work).

Perhaps you're thinking of firewalls, which can have some issues?

Alun Harford

"soulskier" <soulskier@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:466D7AD3-51A6-4772-9763-1E1FF6817360@microsoft.com...
> Computer (Vista premium) came installed with McAfee. Trial period is
> almost
> over. Downloaded AVG Anti virus and have Windows Defender installed. Is
> this
> adequate protection? Or is McAfee also needed?

I would dump McAfee and AVG and get Avast. Do a custom install without
email protection.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM wrote:
> "soulskier" <soulskier@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:466D7AD3-51A6-4772-9763-1E1FF6817360@microsoft.com...
>> Computer (Vista premium) came installed with McAfee. Trial period is
>> almost
>> over. Downloaded AVG Anti virus and have Windows Defender installed.
>> Is this
>> adequate protection? Or is McAfee also needed?
>
> I would dump McAfee and AVG and get Avast. Do a custom install without
> email protection.
>

Why dump AVG?

"Otto Normalverbraucher" <Otto@Normalverbraucher.com> wrote in message
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> Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM wrote:
>> "soulskier" <soulskier@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:466D7AD3-51A6-4772-9763-1E1FF6817360@microsoft.com...
>>> Computer (Vista premium) came installed with McAfee. Trial period is
>>> almost
>>> over. Downloaded AVG Anti virus and have Windows Defender installed. Is
>>> this
>>> adequate protection? Or is McAfee also needed?
>>
>> I would dump McAfee and AVG and get Avast. Do a custom install without
>> email protection.
>>
>
> Why dump AVG?

Even with email scanning not installed it still scans the EML files as they
are saved. This appears to create problems and in Vista there does not
appear to be any way to exempt EML files from AVG's scanning.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Answer in newsgroup. Don't expect an answer to email.