Re: O.T. Thinking of buying Anti-Spam for $30 - seeking comments

I have used Avast as my anti-virus for several months now and have not
had any malware ot virus or the like in that time. I trashed Norton
because I found it to be intrusive, demanding of cpu time and memory
and difficult to configure (not to mention expensive). I find Avast to
be way better in all these areas. It seems to update its virus db in a
tenth of the time Norton took.
I use both Aim and Yahoo. Aim seems great but the IMAP connection can
be slower than a POP connection. I can probably use an extension to
effect a PO connection, but I haven't done that yet. Yahoo is wonderful
but frustrating. I have 2 gig of memory for which I've paid but the
only way I can access it is through the web mail interface. I don't
want to use a webmail interface. Also Yahoo requires Internet Explorer
for some of its activities such a rich text editing; forget it Yahoo;
wake up and smell the roses; hooking your wagon to IE is NOT going to
get you anywhere today.
So right now I get my e-mail through Thunderbird, from Aim (IMAP),
FFDBA (IMAP), Yahoo (POP), Cogeco (POP), Hotmail ...through a
Thunderbird Extension call Webmail. I have Avast running. And I use
XNews or Google as my newsreader. Spam almost never gets as far as
Thunderbird; when it does Thunderbird intercepts it 95 times out of a
hundred.

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