Yes,MSE is free, and a breeze to install, requireing no image cattia to solve, registration or special configuration. Gerald ----- Original Message ----- From: William L. Houts To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 7:44 PM Subject: Re: Avast and Jaws again! Forgive me if this question has already been asked, but I've only recently joined this list. Is Microsoft Security Essentials freeware, and if not what's the cost? Thanks, Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: Gerald Levy To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 4:39 PM Subject: Re: Avast and Jaws again! Microsoft Security Essentials is the new standard in free accessible real-time anti-virus programs. It has a smaller footprint than either Avast or AVG, and is not a resource hog. Gerald ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Tighe To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 7:10 PM Subject: Avast and Jaws again! Recently people on this list have discussed false posatives with Jaws and Avast. I suspect that Avast has made updates since then. Have these updates repaired the problem? If so do you all think that Avast is still a good antivirus program to use with Jaws? To put the question another way, does Avast have a smaller footprint and take up less resources than AVG? Thanks, for any ideas you may have. Peter