Moose
Any recommendations for a good regisry cleaner?
Thanks
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 11:33 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: True confessions - Why I finally set up the external back
up drive and another ?
> First, why are we only talking about AV? The vast majority of us should
> be using AV, firewall and anti mal-ware. And something to keep the
> registry clean, but that's another story...
>
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> .................
>>
>> Because of my prior happy experiences I installed Norton on my father's
>> computer and my daughter's computer both of which ended up having all
>> sorts of bizarre problems. Norton forced me to upgrade at some point by
>> saying the new anti-virus database would no longer work with the old
>> version. As soon as I installed the new stuff all hell broke loose on
>> my system. Nothing seemed to work right anymore and I found it almost
>> impossible to uninstall from all three machines.
>>
>> I concluded that Norton's application had gone far beyond anti-virus and
>> had just grown to the point of collapsing under its own weight and
>> p-poor quality control. Never again.
>>
> My experience hasn't been as bad as yours, but I'm switching out of
> Norton on this machine when the year expires in a couple of weeks.
>
> I've been using Norton for many many years. I put Norton Security 2005
> on this machine a couple of years ago to get the combo of AV, anti
> malware and firewall together. It has worked well without any
> siginificant problems, including through the XP SP2 upgrade.
>
> When I got my now year+ old notebook, it came with a 60 day Norton
> Security 2006. It has given me not fits, like you, but enough trouble
> that I am unimpressed. Before the Norton firewall, I was using and quite
> happy with the free ZoneAlarm firewall and PC mag has been giving the ZA
> security suite top marks, so when they offered it cheap at year end, I
> bought it. Install comes late next week, and I'll see what's what. If it
> works, it will replace Norton on the notebook when the AV subscription
> expires.
>
> McAfee seems to be highly variable depending on the operating system and
> age of the hardware. Absolutely unusable on a W98 system. And endless
> notices popping up Maybe fine on XP, but I'm not buying something I
> threw away again.
>> Get AVG Free. You'll be happier and a little bit richer.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> jjohnso4@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>>> Bill wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> So my question is, "What anti-virus program, that is easy to
>>>> use, are folks using."
>>>>
>>> Hi Bill,
>>>
>>> In a previous discussion several List members recommended AVG Free.
>>>
>>> <http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-virus-free/lng/us/tpl/v5>
>>>
>>> I've been running it on two machines for several months now and, so far,
>>> have been very satisfied.
>>>
>>> Later,
>>> Johnny
>>>
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