Re: Removing Symantec/Norton Antivirus

On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 23:12:45 +0100, "john jardine"
<john.jardine@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> I'm biting the bullet and removing Symantec/Norton Antivirus.
>>
>> What's the recommended replacement?
>>
>>                                         ...Jim Thompson
>>
>[...]
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>Maybe one a month I'll run "Ad-aware" http://www.lavasoft.com/.
Never
finds
>anything, hence I've no idea how good it is. Through total lack of
interest
>on my part I'm not even sure what it's even supposed to be doing.
>Presumably it does work as a couple of years ago it spotted a Trojan
picked
>up within a couple of minutes of installing my new broadband modem and
thus
>'incentivised' me (been watching too much recent TV :), to fit a firewall
>prog 'ZoneAlarm'. (I'm on an original XP install).
>Seems a well battened down firewall may be a key. I still visit the same
>s***my/weird corners of the Internet  and had enormous s*** software
>problems using Win95/98 but at that time had no firewall installed.
>

I run both Ad-aware and Spybot periodically... seems to catch mostly
nuisance cookies.

I sometimes wonder if you can really get much of anything if you
follow the simple rules of not opening anything that comes via E-mail,
and watch out what sites you download from.

Time to break out the vino and prep myself so I don't get too sick
during the "debate" ;-)

                                        ...Jim Thompson
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