[Virtualacorn-list] W7 gotchas?

[Chris Hughes]

In message <53c96d3331Stuartlists at orpheusinternet.co.uk>
          lists <Stuartlists at orpheusinternet.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <fb4d68c953.Alan.Adams at iyonix.adamshome.org.uk>,
>    Alan Adams <alan at adamshome.org.uk> wrote:
>> If you are staying with XP,

> I am looking at my options hence the original question. One issue might be
> my Dell 2330dn printer. XP has full set of drivers and the PS version is
> shared on the network and used by the PS print driver on this Kinetic. W7
> seems only to have an XL driver.

Just install a postscript driver, its a standard.

>> then I strongly suggest you install
>> anti-virus and anti-malware software. Microsoft Security Essentials,
>> which does both jobs, will no longer be updated after April,

> Yes I had realised that.

>> so will
>> become useless pretty quickly. Some malware has been found to use the
>> automatic scan of an out-of-date antivirus produce to install itself.
>> I'd recommend removing MSSE once you have the replacements downloaded
>> and ready to install. (Don't install a second anti-virus product, as
>> this can produce a lot of false alarms and inappropriate removal
>> actions.)

>> I use AVG antivirus, and there are plenty of other free ones. For
>> anti-malware Spybot Search and Destroy has a good reputation, and has
>> been in the business for a long time. It's also free.

>> Don't forget to make sure you have a firewall enabled - either the
>> Windows one, or another. Zone Alarm is pretty good.

> Yes, I have used all these products. AVG+Zonealarm was my standard set up
> but I moved to MSSE as it seemed simpler to use one product and appeared
> to use less resources (The PC seemed quicker) We also had a paid for
> version of Spybot but it became incompatible with AVG.

AVG is very much a resource hog nowadays.

-- 
Chris Hughes