[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

and if he’s the same McAfee, his crappy software destroyed, ate up one of my computers

It's not his software any more. He sold the company over 15 years ago.

And i found that this 12 year old HP runs great with Linux...and i don't even have any anti malware software installed.

[faithhopecharity]

super! thanks for info
(there are some pretty good free antiV programs you can look at, tho..... if you don’t mind a few too many pop up adverts then you may wish to examine Avast free antivirus, and never upgrade to any paid version of course)
so far so good here
best,
fhc