From Monday Feb. 8, 2010 St Pete Times

In your Jan. 25 article, you are recommending Microsoft Security Essentials. Always, before you have recommended AVG.

Does this mean you now believe Microsoft Security Essentials is better?

I think you’ve got the wrong guy. Although I’ve had a lot of readers over the years write in to say they were big AVG fans, I’ve always recommended either Symantec or Microsoft One Care.

I can’t tell you the number of PCs I’ve seen that still had the old, nonworking version of the antivirus software that came with their system and was never renewed.

There’s no excuse for that now. Microsoft Security Essentials has gotten very good reviews, is self-updating and is what I recommend. And it’s free.

This is what I installed. http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/

With the full scan feature, it took about 8 hours

Do that before you go to bed.

Do not have two Anti Virus programs running, they interfere with each other. You can remove AVG or other in the Control Panel > Add & Remove programs.

Ed

John’s past columns- http://www.tampabay.com/writers/article501557.ece