XP support extended?

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I used Avast for a few years, and AVG before that. Both these went the way of bloat, sadly, but Avast is still better than AVG. Like Joe, I'm fine with MSE, which seems to use significantly less resources than any of the third-party options I've tried so far. That said, I've never managed to catch any sort virus. But all my non-technical friends seem to manage it - despite using virus checkers.

I can't help wondering if a certain sub-class out there might attempt a concerted attack when updates for XP/MSE cease. Perhaps it might be prudent to install something else - if only for a few months?

But if you're sensible about how you use your computer, and careful about which websites you visit, and careful about the email attachments you open, then it's pretty hard to catch a virus. Not using Internet Explorer and Outlook Express is a good start...

MSE cannot be considered serious virus protection, it fails miserably against pretty much everything else, you could have an infected system and be blissfully unaware.....

http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/home-use...laug-2013/