Mine came with Norton (a trial), so far, so good. Road Runner has free antivirus, spam, firewall that I will probably pick up after the trial ends, I forget what it's called, it used to be EZ Armor, I think, but they changed the name. Thanks for the info! Donna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie Cashman" <cashman4@comcast.net> To: <ny-troy-irish-gensoc@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:41 AM Subject: Re: [NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC] test >I have a VISTA, and have a few comments. > > I have found it a little difficult to use, alot of bells and whistles that > take time to figure out. The one important thing I want to tell you, that > I > found out the hard way is that VISTA is apparently not compatable with the > MacAfee anti-virus, which is preloaded onto the computer. It blocked my > emails/internet. I had to pay Microsoft $59 to fix the problem, and the > computer was only 3 weeks old. > > I finally found someone at DELL who advised me to download AVG antivirus > instead of MacAfee, and it was free! It was what this technician used on > his own VISTA. I haven't had a problem since. > > Good luck! > Julie > > > >> Yes! Does anyone else have VISTA that wants to comment? I couldn't find >> a >> computer that still has XP. I do like it (VISTA) so far but I've heard >> that >> they haven't gotten all the "kinks" out of it. Time will tell! >> >> Donna > > ===NY-IRISH-GENSOC Mailing List=== > Did you pay your 2008 Dues? > Troy Irish Genealogy Society > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NY-TROY-IRISH-GENSOC-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >