>>On a different topic, what annoys the hell out of me is constant pop-up from Dell and McAfee for all kinds of "things" they offer. Hopefully I will uninstall these soon.
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>Now that the free MS Security Essentials is available, I don't see much reason to use 3rd-party AV in a non-corporate setting. I've had a lot of trouble with McAfee and Symantec over the years, I'd say get rid of them and use MSE.
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>What I find a bit scary is that Intel bought McAfee, and is considering baking it into systems at the BIOS level: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395005,00.asp
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>IIRC you can uninstall Dell utilities in Programs & Features. You might want to leave any Dell Wireless Assistant in place, but I don't think any of the others are necessary for the functioning of your computer.

Thank you very much for you input. I should take time to lean how MS Security Essentials works. I have it on my working - this - notebook but not sure if I set up all the options correctly. In fact one thing I have not done is for about a year when I get a pop-up to update the MSSE I always close it. I think it is probably some mistrust I have with MS updates/patches on which I got burned on some years ago.

UPDATE. Right after I posted this message a pop-up informed me that MSSE upgrade is available. So I selected to upgrade. It took about 3-5 minutes. Everything seemed to have worked. I get "successfully upgraded..." and finish.
Now, about 10 minutes later another pop-up - exactly the same - MSSE upgrade is available shows. I thought I was doing too many updates/patches to my little application but MS has outdone me <g>.