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[OM] Re: OT - anti virus / spyware programs

Subject: [OM] Re: OT - anti virus / spyware programs
From: John Hermanson <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:12:23 -0400
Anyone else using AVG Free receive a notice from AVG stating that 
definition updates to that version would end?  You would have to sign up 
with a third party vender that would "cover" your subscription costs.

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Johann Thorsson wrote:
> I double what Chuck says.  I used NAV (Norton Anti Virus, later became 
> Symantec) until it got so bloated and resource hogging that my machine was 
> almost driven to a stop whenever I was opening a new file.  At work we used 
> McAfee, and had nothing but troubles with it all the time.  We use Sophos at 
> work now, it seems fine, but for some reason it shuts itself off every now 
> and then, something you don't want to see in an anti virus program, so I 
> would not recommend it.
> 
> Personally I don't trust free programs for keeping my machines virii free. 
> The program I started using once I gave up on NAV was F-Prot.  It has served 
> me well, is reasonably priced, even for multiple licenses.
> http://www.f-prot.com/index.html
> 
> J
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 18:01
> Subject: [OM] Re: OT - anti virus / spyware programs
> 
> 
>> Bloat is the reason that I finally got rid of Symantec's Norton
>> Anti-Virus.  It had gotten so fat that it was taking over the machine,
>> couldn't get out of its own way and didn't know how to uninstall itself
>> without leaving hundreds of files and registry entries behind... some of
>> which continued to try and execute.  Symantec published instructions on
>> their web site concerning how to remove the stuff the uninstaller didn't
>> know about but even the folks writing those instruction didn't know it
>> all.  After meticulously following (maybe 10?) pages of written detail
>> it still didn't get it all.  The development process there was clearly
>> totally out of control.  Not what you want to depend on for anti-virus.
>>
>> I wouldn't use McAfee either.  I was forced to use that at work at two
>> different companies and it did us some dirt at both.  I can't even
>> remember what it was now.  I only remember being extremely angry with
>> bugs that never should have gotten out the door.
>>
>> It was someone here a couple years ago that suggested AVG Free.  I've
>> been using it ever since.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt 
> 
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