Essential utilities for laptop running W7

[Davey]

Here ya go:

I love the note: " However, user feedback was not positive, and we responded quickly and decisively".

I think it was a little bit stronger than that!

[Bob Minchin]

What is the current thinking on Avira antivirus these days. I had to get rid of avast as it was slugging the machine. So far Avira seems better behaved but is it effective?

[tabbypurr]

how many different distros did you try?

NT

[Davey]

I have no idea, I now use Linux instead.

[John Rumm]

Yup they installed a man in the middle attack malware that managed to intercept encrypted comms using a flakey security certificate...

[Huge]

Yep. Throw the spyware riddled MS crap away and install Linux Mint.

[Capitol]

You do realise that MS are proposing to upgrade W7 to W10? I hope you have lots of spare bandwidth!

Elemental? Linux seems to work quite well on small machines.