Microsoft Security Essentials, I have been testing this new piece of software for I believe almost a week now. I was a little apprehensive about downloading it because that it is free, and how good can a FREE anti-virus be? My experience that I have encountered with the software is great. The ease of use is phenomenal, very few buttons, the GUI looks bright and happy, unlike avast. Scanning through your files for the first time was rather slow, It took around 1 – 2 hours for 200 GB’s worth of data. After the first time a few days later I scanned my computer again and it was 15-30 min. I have not encountered a virus with the software yet, so I’m not sure how it will react. From all the other reviews that I have read on it, it sounds that it is a good product and directly competes with Kaspersky, Trend, Nortan, etc. Sense it is free, I would almost recommend the others. Another big positive is that the resources that this product uses is minimal, even when scanning I could play games and search the web like the scan isn’t even running. I wish I could tell how accurate and thorough the scan is.
computer, obviously. On the reboot of my computer it did a full system scan, took a little longer than I wanted, but on the plus side if there were any viruses on the computer it would not hinder the results because it was outside windows. Another difference is that Avast is a “live” scanner basically what that means is that it scans everything live, so you don’t have to schedual a scan every week and what not, it is like Kaspersky’s proactive defense. I opened up Microsoft Outlook for the first time in a long time (It holds my old email address). I believe that I had around the neighborhood of 5,700 messages. When outlook started to download them I noticed that the little “a” in the task bar was going crazy because of all the messages it was scanning. About halfway through it, I heard this alarm sound, the sound reminded me of like a sinking ship alarm. The a voice said “A Virus was detected,” then a dialog box popped up if I wanted to delete it or quarnten the infected message, I obviously deleted it, this happened multible times so I learned the short cut for deleting was “D” then “E,” I believe. The ads are also starting to get annoying but its life with a free product. Possibly more to come soon.
Internet Security, ran out. I think that the next step for me is to try Avast, I talked to a co-worker and he says that it is the best this year, after a bit a research that I have done . I do see that it is one of the best, what is crazy is that it is free. Kaspersky was great, seemed to slow down my computer more then I would like but, really what can I ask for because any anti-virus program is going to slow down your computer. Possibly I will pay for it to get the “full” version then give a review on it.
Honestly, I’m not getting into the whole Google Wave phenomenon. Granted it is still in Beta 1, but it just doesn’t seems to be good at anything. If people want to have conference, they could just use Skype or any other programs along that line. The only positive I see to it is sharing pictures. What I could see in the future for Google Wave is possibly if you are wanting to show a power point, part of the browser somewhat is like remote view, were you can see the power point and the presenter typing or talking to the participants. More to come later…..
I have been looking around on multible websites and I don’t see that good of deals anywhere, maybe there are deals but not deals that I am interested in. None of the new ATI Radeon cards on sale 
. The only thing that I noticed is remotly “good” is that the IBM think pad’s are on sale. on their website. I do see that on newegg the i7 is $20.00 off, the 3.06Ghz 950.