Archive for the ‘Antivirus’ Category


Best Free Antivirus

Dear Elizabeth, I love, love, love your web site. Please tell me what is the best free anti virus. Thank you so very much, Gladys

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Link for AVG

Dear Computer Lady, In your recent FB posting you gave an address and said go to your site and click on the link for AVG…where? I clicked on the logo (went nowhere), I clicked in some of the sidebar links… there’s nothing I’m seeing to click on to buy?? AVG. Christine

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AVG and Security Essentials

Dear Computer Lady, I am having a problem I was wondering if you can run Microsoft Essential and AVG at the same time on a computer. I know you can not run AVG and McAfee or Norton on the same computer. My computer is a Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 3 [...]

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AVG Email Scanner

Hi Elizabeth, Have read often of your recommendation for AVG. I had it years ago and then a computer guy put Kaspersky on instead. My subscription is up in about 10 days and would like to switch back to AVG, but wondered if it checks emails for viruses? I checked online, and it didn’t seem [...]

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Old Slow Computer

Dear Computer Lady, My sister gets your newsletter and she sent your email address to me. I am on a very limited income and my computer is sick. It is very slow the cable company had me go to speed test.com and go through all the prompts and then they ask for money and I [...]

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Antivirus Makes Computer Slow

Dear Computer Lady: I’ve installed AVG 2011 and it seems my computer has slowed down. It is not the free version. What is the problem that would cause the computer to slow down? I have Windows Vista Home Thanks, Betty

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Great Security Software

Hi computer lady, I read your columns every week and enjoy them. Could you tell me what is a good antivirus and spyware program to use. I have been having trouble with Norton lately. And I was looking for something else. Hope you can help me. Shirley

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Mcafee to AVG

Dear Computer Lady, I have Mcafee now and would like to use AVG free download. Do I have to take out Mcafee? On the AVG page, there are a lot of options. Which one should I use? Thank you, Paul

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Additional Signatures

Dear Computer Lady, I have Emsisoft Anti-Malware program installed on my computer. Whenever an online update is available, the update process took quite a while to download the update termed as “Additional Signatures”. Could you please explain what is “additional signatures” in this case. Thanks! Liew

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Free Antivirus

There are still a couple of free antivirus programs, but, I would think twice before I depended on only free antivirus programs to protect my computer.

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