On Sat, 02 May 2009 19:18:46 GMT, malch@xxxxxxxxx (Malcolm Hoar)
wrote:
In article <gtgeu6$s5v$1@xxxxxxxx>, "Lotus" <vroom@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
My subscription for Norton is up. I've had different Norton products for at
least 12 years, have tried McAfee, which I didn't like. Norton appears to
be so bloated, it slows my machine down.
How's some of these free downloads like AVG?
AVG works pretty well. I ran it for quite a few years.
I recently switched to avast! which I like a little more.
I also run the Ashampoo firewall.
I do not like the Norton or McAfee products at all and
I see no reason to spend money on AV products when there
are several excellent freeware programs to choose from.
I use avgfree, and they changed it so that I was to choose a 2 hour
period during which it would upgrade the definitions. I did that and
all was fine until my schedule changed and I was never on the computer
during those two hours. I had assumed it would do it when I logged on
if the computer was off during the scheduled time, but it didn't.
Re: Which Anti Virus Works Best With Vista ... and there are more possible causes for an uninstaller might not work well or totally remove all components and/or registry entries which is when a removal utility could be helpful. ... I hated McAfee 2005 because the virus updates failed more than they succeeded. ... For that reason, two companies that I was contracting too asked for alternative and I suggested NAV, Symantec Corporate Security and TrendMicro.... I have no comment on Norton or other programs and utilities, but I don't see any relationship between a removal utility and a "defective" product. ... (microsoft.public.windows.vista.general)
Re: Which Anti Virus Works Best With Vista ... and there are more possible causes for an uninstaller might not work well or totally remove all components and/or registry entries which is when a removal utility could be helpful. ... I hated McAfee 2005 because the virus updates failed more than they succeeded. ... For that reason, two companies that I was contracting too asked for alternative and I suggested NAV, Symantec Corporate Security and TrendMicro.... I have no comment on Norton or other programs and utilities, but I don't see any relationship between a removal utility and a "defective" product. ... (microsoft.public.windows.vista.general)
Re: choosing firewall and antivirus: Norton or McAfee ?Something else ...McAfee is notorious for screwing up Outlook Express and Norton puts too many hooks into the operating system and is a terrible resource hog. ... criteria for choosing a good firewall and a good antivirus program? ...stealthed the stealth option of little value? ... (microsoft.public.security)
Re: Which Anti Virus Works Best With Vista ... and there are more possible causes for an uninstaller might not work well or totally remove all components and/or registry entries which is when a removal utility could be helpful. ... I hated McAfee 2005 because the virus updates failed more than they succeeded. ... For that reason, two companies that I was contracting too asked for alternative and I suggested NAV, Symantec Corporate Security and TrendMicro.... I have no comment on Norton or other programs and utilities, but I don't see any relationship between a removal utility and a "defective" product. ... (microsoft.public.windows.vista.general)
Re: Which Anti Virus Works Best With Vista ... To support my assertions on the possibilities of McAfee not paying attention or catching something, please look over this information from ICSA ... This is an obvious exaggeration, since that would mean from 1989 to today, and until 2000, all of the successful tech that I knew had Norton on the top of their list as the best. ... If your coffee maker makes coffee but explodes if you use columbian beans while no other coffee maker does, it sucks as a product even if you personally never use columbian beans so you haven't blown it up yet. ... (microsoft.public.windows.vista.general)
