yes, I meant to post this but forgot, evidently total secure essentials has been dropped from support, first one engine was lost and then the last one as both avira and bitdefender were no longer being updated.
so now there is 360 total security, FREE still you can do an offline install or let them install just like a normal update, the only reason I do not like the new one is that I never wanted all the tools that come with total security, I like to do my own cleanup, so when I installed I unchecked everything except for what I had checked when it was just total security essentials.
down at the bottom, if you install offline, you will have to click the
K to install their engine, when you do get online. I always like to install offline, do a search and then go online once it has learned my files,
desktop lite gets installed automatically, as soon as the installation is complete, if you look at the thing on your desktop, there is a line to Permanently close, I clicked on this so that it would not come up anymore.
in the tray notification area is an orange circle, this is some type of adblocker, I right clicked to get to where it says quit, and when asked if I wanted to disable I clicked YES.
One other thing I do not like but have found no way of stopping unless I pay to have ads stopped is that about once a day or so a popup ad coming from the notification tray will ask if you want to try this or that, I just click on the X in the top right corner and go on with what I was doing. Annoying but not too bad
