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I wonder how affective these will be as a replacement to Microsoft security. I assume it won’t be as good, but if it’s good enough, maybe people can get by with it.
I have to imagine it’s nowhere near as effective, but only time will tell. I would still say the best option for XP users is to just upgrade and pay the money required to get windows 7 or 8.
I used to have a bunch of these free anti-virus programs on my XP computers and it always seemed to do more harm than good. I may have been using the wrong programs, but I don’t think these will be terribly effective.
Not recommend to use a lot of anti-virus. Just pick a good one. If you don’t, you just don’t know that you get harmed. Doesn’t mean your computer is healthier.
Is this a program that’s truly free or that will just do a scan for you, tell you what’s wrong, and make you pay for the program to fix it? Those are the worst. Lol
This means nothing coming from anti-virus/malware companies. The only thing you need to support is the programs ability to run on the operating system. The definitions are agnostic to operating systems. Marketing ploy again.
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I wonder how affective these will be as a replacement to Microsoft security. I assume it won’t be as good, but if it’s good enough, maybe people can get by with it.
I have to imagine it’s nowhere near as effective, but only time will tell. I would still say the best option for XP users is to just upgrade and pay the money required to get windows 7 or 8.
I used to have a bunch of these free anti-virus programs on my XP computers and it always seemed to do more harm than good. I may have been using the wrong programs, but I don’t think these will be terribly effective.
Not recommend to use a lot of anti-virus. Just pick a good one. If you don’t, you just don’t know that you get harmed. Doesn’t mean your computer is healthier.
Is this a program that’s truly free or that will just do a scan for you, tell you what’s wrong, and make you pay for the program to fix it? Those are the worst. Lol
Isn’t that how your local mechanic do? Come and get a free inspection!
How long is the life? Your life or mine?
Why? I can understand supporting for a while, but everyone that has anything to do with the PC industry should be helping to move people off XP
This means nothing coming from anti-virus/malware companies. The only thing you need to support is the programs ability to run on the operating system. The definitions are agnostic to operating systems. Marketing ploy again.