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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: deepinthewoods on October 28, 2012, 12:34:05 pm

Title: tech advice help please!!
Post by: deepinthewoods on October 28, 2012, 12:34:05 pm

i now have a new pc. it has come with microsoft security essentials, i have been using norton on my laptop and liked it for the parental controls i can apply to my daughters netbook.
to install norton on my new pc it needs me to remove microsoft security essentials.
what should i do???

Title: Re: tech advice help please!!
Post by: SallyintNorth on October 28, 2012, 08:49:53 pm

All the security programmes hate all the other ones and try to not coexist with them.   :rant:

Norton on W7 is an uneasy alliance...  there are things I can't change (or even see what settings I have)  ::)

Sorry can't be constructively helpful but can empathise...  :-*

Title: Re: tech advice help please!!
Post by: bloomer on October 28, 2012, 08:51:11 pm

i normally use AVG and i cant get it to work on W7 at all windows security essentials is hard to get rid of!!!

Title: Re: tech advice help please!!
Post by: deepinthewoods on October 28, 2012, 09:07:24 pm

well,norton has been implemented on the new one,it took seconds.myold laptop was sooooo slow. thanks for the advice.

Title: Re: tech advice help please!!
Post by: doganjo on October 28, 2012, 09:36:28 pm

My PC has just been cleaned up and I asked the expert about virus programmes etc - he said that of the free ones MS Security Essentials is as good as it gets.  So I'm sticking with it.

Title: Re: tech advice help please!!
Post by: Lesley Silvester on October 28, 2012, 10:53:43 pm

My OH has it and swears by it.