Try Avast. I did and switched away from AVG immediately. Avast just
works quietly away and does not gobble your machine for an hour or two
each day. It doesn't check the whole drive every day. It just checks
what you use at the time its loaded unless you choose to do a rootkit
check prior to boot. Then it will run a while but that's only at your
own choosing. I did it once at the start. I thought the load time
check would be a noticeable performance hit but it's not. It will
however make a verbal announcement that the virus database has been
downloaded and updated after it's over. Maybe there's a switch to turn
that off but it hasn't been intrusive. Try it. You'll like it.
Chuck Norcutt
Bob Whitmire wrote:
> On Mar 1, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
>
>> But my latest hate-object is HPProductAssistant which pops up every
>> few seconds, sometimes, just because someone was foolish enough to
>> instal HP software on a computer connected to a HP printer.
>
>
> At work I've got a XP professional box, and the agency I work for has
> installed Norton anti-virus products. Roughly four or five times a
> day, a window pops up to tell me my virus definitions are out of date
> and would I like to update? Never mind that I'm in the middle of
> something and don't want the distraction. Did I mention how much I
> hate, despise and loathe Norton? I didn't? Well, I do. <g> My Windows
> XP pro machine at home has AVG Free on it, and it seems to work just
> fine. I also have Windows Defender, which is okay, and I use the Mac
> for all e-mail operations. And as I said once before, using the ping
> sites on the web, I can't even be sure my Mac exists.
>
> But then I'm not really sure I exist, either. Maybe more like a bit of
> cosmic flatulence slowed down enough to form a Bob. Here today, back
> to the radiation pool tomorrow. <g>
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> www.bwp33.com
>
>
>
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