I always found that Norton too tightly integrates itself with the OS -
obviously any AV package worth mentioning necessarily integrates itself with
the OS at a low-level - but Norton goes way OTT in this respect.
AVG has, I feel, the right level of product integration :)
Allan
PS No trees were harmed in the sending of this message and a very large
number of electrons were asked their permission to be terribly
inconvenienced. (And threw a party for them afterwards for being really cool
about it).
Disrupting the unnatural balance that you, as a conscious human being and a
confused mass of energy, have created.
-Disturb the mind -
>From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Re: True confessions - Why I finally set up the external back
>up drive and another ?
>Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:05:46 -0500
>
>I've been running AVG Free for (I think) a couple of years now and am
>quite happy. I will not go near Norton or McAfee again... ever. I
>never chose McAfee in the first place but have had to use it at two
>places of employment and have a very bad taste in my mouth for problems
>is caused me and some of my employees at one of those places. I had
>used Norton anti-virus for many, many years and also in the form of IBM
>anti-virus before it was merged with Norton. I never had any problem
>until just before I switched to AVG Free and I switched because of it.
>
>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.
>
>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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