You are right and make sure you get the one that is for your windows
whether it's vista or xp 32 or 64 bit.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelmer, Susan M." <SKelmer@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 6:17 AM
Subject: RE: MS Essential
I have been using Microsoft Essentials on a variety of computers, and am
very very happy with how it works! It seems to be really good at
catching most nasties. I would not have vouched for anything from
Microsoft even several months ago, but Microsoft Security Essentials has
saved my butt a few times now.
Go ahead and download it. Then uninstall your old virus program, do a
reboot, and then install Essentials. Make sure it does an initial scan,
and set it up to do a weekly scan on schedule. Do not pick 2 a.m. on a
Sunday as your time, however, even though this is the default. I found
an interesting issue with using this particular time when Daylight
Savings Time rolled around. You can read more about that experience
here:
http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2010/03/14/daylight-savings-time-and-the-
auto-scan/
Yes, that was a bit of a shameless plug, but I blog regularly for Geek
News Central and talk about all kinds of things, not just those that are
disability-related.
Anyway, I do like Essentials and recommend it at this time as a great
way to keep your machines clean. I've been using it since about
Christmas, when my daughter got a nasty virus on her new Netbook I
bought her, not even a week after I gave it to her. The virus program I
had been using on her machine did not catch the virus, yet her machine
was hosed. Took me the better part of a day to fix it, and in the end,
it was Essentials that did the hard work.
Susan Kelmer
Adaptive Technology Specialist/
Lab Coordinator, Campus Labs and Classrooms
St. Louis Community College - Meramec
314-984-7951
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