I use McAfee online. Is there any disadvantage to this?
John
> I trust McAfee, too. I run EZ Antivirus, but McAfee would be my second
> choice no doubt. Norton failed to catch the virus which brought me to my
> knees twice within the past couple of weeks, so as you can imagine I'm not
> real impressed with that product. Of course I realize it's impossible to
> identify all problem files when they first come out. But I notice that my
> EZ software has no problem at all identifying and automatically locking
and
> isolating "suspect" packages such as these Sir Cam batch files, whereas
> Norton couldn't handle. Now perhaps I just didn't have Norton configured
> properly, but then I'd want to know, "then why was Norton so much harder
to
> configure than EZ?" It took me about ten seconds to figure out which
> options to select with EZ--in fact, I merely chose the defaults! <g>
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> In any event it's good to hear you're high and dry. God help anyone
foolish
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> At 02:57 PM 7/24/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >Count yourself lucky Tris. I've had, at the very least, upwards from a
dozen
> >copies emailed to me in the last 24 hours, NOT counting the ones through
> >this list. Every one caught and clobbered by good ol' McAfee, lucky for
me.
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> >---
> >Scott Gomez
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Tris Schuler [mailto:tristanjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >Subject: [OM] Re: Our virus friend is at it again
> >
> >Well, I just received another friendly invitation to open up a nasty
batch
> >file. Here's the text.
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> > <snippage>
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> >This is getting about half serious!
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> >Tris
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