Virus Protection on Network

Hi
I’ve just bought my wife a laptop, and am about to set up a wireless
network for home. My PC is running a full suite of McAfee products, do I
need to load any of the virus protection onto the laptop or will it be
secured via the PC?
If I do, which I think I might. Will I need to purchase a second copy or
do the licences allow you to load onto two systems, as long as you both?

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Happiness is 1000ft in a force 12

DaveP wrote:

> Hi
> I’ve just bought my wife a laptop, and am about to set up a wireless
> network for home. My PC is running a full suite of McAfee products,
> do I need to load any of the virus protection onto the laptop or will
> it be secured via the PC?
> If I do, which I think I might. Will I need to purchase a second copy
> or do the licences allow you to load onto two systems, as long as you
> both?
>

In a home network (Workgroup) you need a full-featured antivirus and a
firewall running on each computer. The new laptop probably came with a
trial version of some antivirus. Make sure you renew the subscription
when it expires if you decide to keep the program. If the laptop did
not come with any av preinstalled, you must buy an av program and
install it. As for McAfee licensing, you'd have to contact them or look
on their website for questions about their software.

Since the new laptop has XP's Service Pack 2, it has the Windows
Firewall. You can use that and set it to allow File & Printer Sharing
(if desired) from the Exceptions tab in the Firewall applet.

Malke
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"DaveP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:B9EC6BA6-8151-409C-86DC-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi
> I've just bought my wife a laptop, and am about to set up a wireless
> network for home. My PC is running a full suite of McAfee products, do I
> need to load any of the virus protection onto the laptop or will it be
> secured via the PC?
> If I do, which I think I might. Will I need to purchase a second copy or
> do the licences allow you to load onto two systems, as long as you both?
>
Use AVG or Avast for antivirus - both free downloads and do the Job just
fine. I personally avoid Norton products. They will slow down your PC and
can cause no end of problems especially with Networking.

"Tony" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> "DaveP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:B9EC6BA6-8151-409C-86DC-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi
>> I've just bought my wife a laptop, and am about to set up a wireless
>> network for home. My PC is running a full suite of McAfee products, do I
>> need to load any of the virus protection onto the laptop or will it be
>> secured via the PC?
>> If I do, which I think I might. Will I need to purchase a second copy or
>> do the licences allow you to load onto two systems, as long as you both?
>>
> Use AVG or Avast for antivirus - both free downloads and do the Job just
> fine. I personally avoid Norton products. They will slow down your PC
> and can cause no end of problems especially with Networking.
>
I have used Norton products for years, both at work and at home, on networks
large and small. Have never encountered any slowdowns or network issues.
Perhaps it an operator error problem.

Bobby

Try this site. It is a free 1 year trial of ETrust EZAntivirus. I like it
and find it to be unobtrusive and easy to use. I believe the 1 year trial is
a full non-limited version.

http://www.my-etrust.com/SubscriptCe...istration.aspx

Regards,
John O.

"DaveP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:B9EC6BA6-8151-409C-86DC-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi
> I've just bought my wife a laptop, and am about to set up a wireless
> network for home. My PC is running a full suite of McAfee products, do I
> need to load any of the virus protection onto the laptop or will it be
> secured via the PC?
> If I do, which I think I might. Will I need to purchase a second copy or
> do the licences allow you to load onto two systems, as long as you both?
>
> --
>
> Happiness is 1000ft in a force 12

John O wrote:
>>>Use AVG or Avast for antivirus - both free downloads and do the Job just
>>>fine. I personally avoid Norton products. They will slow down your PC
>>>and can cause no end of problems especially with Networking.
>>>
>>
>>I have used Norton products for years, both at work and at home, on
>>networks large and small. Have never encountered any slowdowns or network
>>issues. Perhaps it an operator error problem.
>>
>
>
> Over the years the Norton automatic tools have been to blame for many
> application slowdowns--some very dramatic. I'm sure it works like you say it
> does, but blaming a user is maybe a little harsh. IOW, forgetting to turn
> off some real-time feature that a tytpical newbie wouldn't ever know about.
>
> Among several of the MS Office newsgroups, NAV is long-known for sending
> tentacles deep into places others rarely tread. That makes troubleshooting
> conversations often start with: Turn off NAV, and what happens?
>
> -John O
>

It's not just Word. NAV is NOTORIOUS in the WordPerfect community for
not playing nice with others.

Many thanks i will give them a try.
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Happiness is 1000ft in a force 12

Dave P


"Tony" wrote:

>
> "DaveP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:B9EC6BA6-8151-409C-86DC-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi
> > I've just bought my wife a laptop, and am about to set up a wireless
> > network for home. My PC is running a full suite of McAfee products, do I
> > need to load any of the virus protection onto the laptop or will it be
> > secured via the PC?
> > If I do, which I think I might. Will I need to purchase a second copy or
> > do the licences allow you to load onto two systems, as long as you both?
> >
> Use AVG or Avast for antivirus - both free downloads and do the Job just
> fine. I personally avoid Norton products. They will slow down your PC and
> can cause no end of problems especially with Networking.
>
>
>