{"id":857,"date":"2014-04-14T00:33:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T08:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/systemsolver.com\/StatlerBlog\/?p=857"},"modified":"2014-04-14T00:33:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T08:33:45","slug":"xp-security-essentials-end-of-life-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/2014\/04\/14\/xp-security-essentials-end-of-life-warnings\/","title":{"rendered":"XP Security Essentials end of life warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has stopped providing support (updates and patches) for XP but they will provide anti-virus updates for Security Essentials until July 2015. Unfortunately, they have provided a nag screen for XP that shows at every log in.<\/p>\n<p>To remove the notice the trick is to downgrade Security Essentials (it will still give virus updates) and then refuse to upgrade. Once refused, the security notices stop.<\/p>\n<p>Superusers.com has a good tutorial with links. <a href=\"http:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/738131\/disable-the-security-essentials-end-of-life-warning-on-windows-xp\">http:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/738131\/disable-the-security-essentials-end-of-life-warning-on-windows-xp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following are five of the most reviewed free anti-virus programs available. One of them has been declared by at least one commenter as ransomeware and that&#8217;s something you don&#8217;t want to mess with, but I&#8217;ve included it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>These are not in order of preference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/antivirus.baidu.com\/en\/\">Baidu Antivirus<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/antivirus.comodo.com\/download-free-antivirus.php?tc=1&amp;key5sk1=c0dd62a152e0f475f4c3b53a40e1a03a31ee3466&amp;key5sk2=&amp;key5sk3=1397462349000&amp;key5sk4=&amp;key5sk5=1397463936000&amp;key6sk1=&amp;key6sk2=FF280&amp;key6sk3=5&amp;key6sk4=en-us&amp;key6sk5=US&amp;key6sk6=0&amp;key6sk7=Google&amp;key6sk9=1600900&amp;key6sk10=false&amp;key6sk11=2a090ce6c5f564408b396e48437bd54cfd88c6a4&amp;key6sk12=2034&amp;key7sk1=8&amp;key1sk1=ors&amp;key1sk2=Google\">Comodo Antivirus<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.majorgeeks.com\/files\/details\/avast_free_edition.html\">Avast! Essential (free) &#8212; at MajorGeeks.com<\/a> (I trust them more that other download sites)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avira.com\/en\/avira-free-antivirus\">Avira Free Antivirus<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/solutions\/free.html\">Bitdefender Free<\/a> This the one where the commenter complained about Ransome Ware<\/p>\n<p>AVG was in the list but it only has a free trial now, not free software<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has stopped providing support (updates and patches) for XP but they will provide anti-virus updates for Security Essentials until July 2015. Unfortunately, they have provided a nag screen for XP that shows at every log in. To remove the notice the trick is to downgrade Security Essentials (it will still give virus updates) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}