Help! My Norton Antivirus virus definitions service is about to expire
in a couple of weeks. I tried to do the annual $20 renewal thing but
couldn't. Upon visitng Symantec's website to find out why I discovered
that my Norton Systemworks/Antivirus 2001 product is no longer
supported. My only choice was to upgrade to the 2005 product at a price
of $40 or more depending on which specific product I chose to buy.
I decided to pay a visit to Amazon.com to see if Amazon was selling for
less. They weren't but while I was there I decided to read the product
reviews for Systemworks and Antivirus (standalone). I came away
horrified. Like many of the reviewers I have been happily using Norton
Antivirus since DOS days. But many, many of the reviewers tell scary
tales about how the 2005 product has caused severe damage to their
system installations and even forced many to reformat and reinstall all
their apps. So I have no desire to go there even if these folks are in
the minority. And, since I run Win 2000 instead of XP I suspect that
compatibility is likely to be even less well tested.
McAfee Antivirus might be the logical next step except that I have a bad
taste in my mouth about the McAfee product from several years ago. Not
the pure ugliness that Norton seems to be now but something that, as a
fellow software developer (at the time) made me less than happy.
Anyhow, maybe it's time to move on to some open source application.
Anyone have strong feelings about what to use or not use, open source or
otherwise?
Thanks,
Chuck Norcutt
==============================================
List usage info: http://www.zuikoholic.com
List nannies: olympusadmin@xxxxxxxxxx
==============================================
|