Windows 7: So many still don't know about MS Security Essentials

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Perhaps there are many people out in the ether who know of it & choose to ignore it............. as do I.

Any particular reason?

I'm exercising my freedom of choice in personal security after having investigated the options currently available. [What I often end up with is contrary to the "flavour of the month." So far my choices have served me well. I have never had any malware or a virus ever, after years of being online.]

whs is there a way to get that program to open up all pdf files in word? How does it work? Thanks

What it does is convert PDF files to Word files (.pdf to .docx) and you can convert a whole bunch in one run. It is very fast and extremely accurate. But you then have to open the resulting files yourself. I converted a some with a lot of graphs, 3D, links and hyperlinks, etc and you cannot tell the conversion from the original - perfect.

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I'm exercising my freedom of choice in personal security after having investigated the options currently available. [What I often end up with is contrary to the "flavour of the month." So far my choices have served me well. I have never had any malware or a virus ever, after years of being online.]

OK, understand - pure whim. I thought you had some insights that I had missed.

I pointed an insight out earlier in the thread.

Someone links to them and it goes on and on and on with people thinking it's a good resource.

The reason I don't think they are? They had shady testing methods for quite some time and they require AV companies to pay them to include their software. AVC is a sham in my book.