Netbook Protection

[David]

Picked up a Dell Netbook and it has a 15 month subscription to Macafee. As most know, macafee bogs down a system like there is no tomorrow. Especially on a netbook running off a Sprint Air Card!

It has Windows 7 Starter Edition on it and for some reason, the free AVG (which is what I have used on my desktop for years) will not load onto it.

Does anyone have any other suggestions for free protection on this netbook so I can uninstall this dreaded macafee from the system?

 

[andy]

Picked up a Dell Netbook and it has a 15 month subscription to Macafee. As most know, macafee bogs down a system like there is no tomorrow. Especially on a netbook running off a Sprint Air Card!

It has Windows 7 Starter Edition on it and for some reason, the free AVG (which is what I have used on my desktop for years) will not load onto it.

Does anyone have any other suggestions for free protection on this netbook so I can uninstall this dreaded macafee from the system?

free.avg.com

 

[W.B.]

I maybe overdoing it but I have an Acer aspire one netbook and I use spybot and avast for anti-virus in addition to a cookie cleaner, anti-mal-ware and anti-spyware software. Seems to do the trick.

 

[Josh.CHI]

Go to Cnet.com and hit up free downloads. The program is called Avast. It is free and THE BEST!

 

[theribdoctor]

Avira is excellent, as well as avast, and suprisingly the micro$oft security essentials is not bad...

All free.

 

[David]

free.avg.com

Read paragraph #2. :wink:

 

[David]

I will give Avast a shot. I already run spybot, malwarebytes, and CCleaner on it so the Avast should be the final component so I can get rid of macafee.

 

[andy]

Read paragraph #2. :wink:

oops.

 

[David]

oops.

I appreciate the suggestion though!

 

[lbowles2]

Microsoft Security Essentials

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

Very small footprint and works well

 

[sauzatime]

Another vote for Microsoft Security Essentials...I've always thought it should be the OS's job to make sure their software is secure and safe. I've been using it on my netbook for several months and I like it.

 

[GoingPostal]

Another vote for Microsoft Security Essentials...I've always thought it should be the OS's job to make sure their software is secure and safe. I've been using it on my netbook for several months and I like it.

+3 best one for windows 7. and as stated very small footprint

 

[CWS]

ANother vote for Avast. I run it on all my systems and the Bank approves it. Actually paid the cash for the upgrade. Cheap enough.

 

[Oxman]

I loaded AVG Free in my Windows 7 Starter Edition netbook without any trouble at all. Of course, I uninstalled the MacAfee stuff first. There's a very good chance that the McA stuff is inhibiting the AVG install.

 

[joshua]

I just use microsoft security essentials. It costs nothing and you schedule it to scan whenever you want.

 

[earful]

Emsisoft anti-malware and malwarebytes, both for thorough offline anti-malware scanning. Also ccleaner for sweeping unnecessary files and registry entries.

 

[gui_tarzan]

Picked up a Dell Netbook and it has a 15 month subscription to Macafee. As most know, macafee bogs down a system like there is no tomorrow. Especially on a netbook running off a Sprint Air Card!

It has Windows 7 Starter Edition on it and for some reason, the free AVG (which is what I have used on my desktop for years) will not load onto it.

Does anyone have any other suggestions for free protection on this netbook so I can uninstall this dreaded macafee from the system?

David, uninstall McAfee first, then install AVG or Avast. We run AVG on our school netbooks without a problem, but we always uninstall McAfee or Norton first thing.