good virus program??

Uncle Grumpy

"Ken Blake, MVP" <.am.invalid.domain> wrote:

>I run the freeware Avast! on all my machines, and am happy with it.

I rapidly grew weary of all of it's upgrade activity. It seemed to do
it ENDLESSLY.

What did I miss in the setup?

I am still happy with AVG.

HeyBub

seaweed1317 wrote:
> I am running XP Pro & have always used Norton Anti-Virus. Recently it
> started "acting up", wanting to do a full system scan, which I did.
> But it was constantly trying to do this & there was always an error
> message on my task bat saying I needed to do this. When I did do it,
> it took over 4 hours as it did my main drive, a spare internal drive
> & my external.
>
> I removed it with the intent of re-installing. But after it was gone,
> I couldn't believe how much faster everything was running without
> Norton. So my question is, does anyone know of a GOOD anti-virus (not
> McAfee)? I don't care if I have to buy it. I just don't want Norton
> anymore & will also remove it from my laptop.

Are you SURE you removed all remnants of Norton? Did you use the
super-sekret Norton removal tool? Did you scan your registry for "Norton"
and "Symantec?"

HeyBub

seaweed1317 wrote:
> I am running XP Pro & have always used Norton Anti-Virus. Recently it
> started "acting up", wanting to do a full system scan, which I did.
> But it was constantly trying to do this & there was always an error
> message on my task bat saying I needed to do this. When I did do it,
> it took over 4 hours as it did my main drive, a spare internal drive
> & my external.
>
> I removed it with the intent of re-installing. But after it was gone,
> I couldn't believe how much faster everything was running without
> Norton. So my question is, does anyone know of a GOOD anti-virus (not
> McAfee)? I don't care if I have to buy it. I just don't want Norton
> anymore & will also remove it from my laptop.

Are you SURE you removed all remnants of Norton? Did you use the
super-sekret Norton removal tool? Did you scan your registry for "Norton"
and "Symantec?"

Ken Blake, MVP

On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:44:58 -0500, Uncle Grumpy
<> wrote:

> "Ken Blake, MVP" <.am.invalid.domain> wrote:
>
> >I run the freeware Avast! on all my machines, and am happy with it.
>
> I rapidly grew weary of all of it's upgrade activity. It seemed to do
> it ENDLESSLY.


Personally, I think its upgrading often is one of it best features.
But it does it essentially transparently, with nothing but a brief
little corner pop-up window to alert you that it's done it.

If that little corner pop-up makes you "rapidly grow weary," you have
even less patience than I thought you had.


> What did I miss in the setup?
>
> I am still happy with AVG.


I've heard only good things about AVG from those I respect. I'm happy
with Avast!, but I suspect that if I changed to AVG, I'd be happy with
that too.


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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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Ken Blake, MVP

On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:44:58 -0500, Uncle Grumpy
<> wrote:

> "Ken Blake, MVP" <.am.invalid.domain> wrote:
>
> >I run the freeware Avast! on all my machines, and am happy with it.
>
> I rapidly grew weary of all of it's upgrade activity. It seemed to do
> it ENDLESSLY.


Personally, I think its upgrading often is one of it best features.
But it does it essentially transparently, with nothing but a brief
little corner pop-up window to alert you that it's done it.

If that little corner pop-up makes you "rapidly grow weary," you have
even less patience than I thought you had.


> What did I miss in the setup?
>
> I am still happy with AVG.


I've heard only good things about AVG from those I respect. I'm happy
with Avast!, but I suspect that if I changed to AVG, I'd be happy with
that too.


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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DL

Kaspersky has for the past few years been reccomended by
many mags, this side of the pond. Personnally I use F-Secure on three PC's

"seaweed1317" <> wrote in message
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> Thanks to all.
>
> Anyone know about another I just heard about, "Avira AntiVir?
>
>

DL

Kaspersky has for the past few years been reccomended by
many mags, this side of the pond. Personnally I use F-Secure on three PC's

"seaweed1317" <> wrote in message
news:%.gbl...
> Thanks to all.
>
> Anyone know about another I just heard about, "Avira AntiVir?
>
>

Uncle Grumpy

"Ken Blake, MVP" <.am.invalid.domain> wrote:

>> I rapidly grew weary of all of it's upgrade activity. It seemed to do
>> it ENDLESSLY.
>
>
>Personally, I think its upgrading often is one of it best features.
>But it does it essentially transparently, with nothing but a brief
>little corner pop-up window to alert you that it's done it.
>
>If that little corner pop-up makes you "rapidly grow weary," you have
>even less patience than I thought you had.

It was more than a corner pop-up on my notebook. It was an annoying
pop-up that forced me to reply.

At my age (64), patience doesn't come easily ;->

Uncle Grumpy

"Ken Blake, MVP" <.am.invalid.domain> wrote:

>> I rapidly grew weary of all of it's upgrade activity. It seemed to do
>> it ENDLESSLY.
>
>
>Personally, I think its upgrading often is one of it best features.
>But it does it essentially transparently, with nothing but a brief
>little corner pop-up window to alert you that it's done it.
>
>If that little corner pop-up makes you "rapidly grow weary," you have
>even less patience than I thought you had.

It was more than a corner pop-up on my notebook. It was an annoying
pop-up that forced me to reply.

At my age (64), patience doesn't come easily ;->

Ken Blake, MVP

On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:28:00 -0500, Uncle Grumpy
<> wrote:

> "Ken Blake, MVP" <.am.invalid.domain> wrote:
>
> >> I rapidly grew weary of all of it's upgrade activity. It seemed to do
> >> it ENDLESSLY.
> >
> >
> >Personally, I think its upgrading often is one of it best features.
> >But it does it essentially transparently, with nothing but a brief
> >little corner pop-up window to alert you that it's done it.
> >
> >If that little corner pop-up makes you "rapidly grow weary," you have
> >even less patience than I thought you had.
>
> It was more than a corner pop-up on my notebook. It was an annoying
> pop-up that forced me to reply.


I can't explain that, other than to say it doesn't do that here.


> At my age (64), patience doesn't come easily ;->


You're a kid. I'm almost six years older than you are (I'll be 70 in
November), and I have many time the amount of patience you have.

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