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Old 28-08-2007, 12:59 AM   #21
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On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:28:00 -0500, Uncle Grumpy
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> "Ken Blake, MVP" <.am.invalid.domain> wrote:
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> >> 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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Old 28-08-2007, 01:00 AM   #22
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Uncle,

I totally disagree

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> "seaweed1317" <> wrote:
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> >does anyone know of a GOOD anti-virus (not McAfee)?

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> Free... AVG Antivirus from grisoft.com



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Old 28-08-2007, 01:00 AM   #23
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Uncle,

I totally disagree

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> "seaweed1317" <> wrote:
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> >does anyone know of a GOOD anti-virus (not McAfee)?

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> Free... AVG Antivirus from grisoft.com



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Old 28-08-2007, 01:00 AM   #24
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"Newbie Coder" <> wrote:

>I totally disagree


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Old 28-08-2007, 01:00 AM   #25
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"Newbie Coder" <> wrote:

>I totally disagree


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Old 28-08-2007, 01:01 AM   #26
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On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:18:42 -0400, seaweed1317 brought this comment to my
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> 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.
>
> Thanks in advance
> .....seaweed



On one of my machines, I use SpySweeper and really like it, so for the 10 bucks, I added the anti-virus.
Can't complain and it's very unobtrusive.

Avast! antivirus is excellent freeware, actually excellent anythingware. Good luck.
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Old 28-08-2007, 01:01 AM   #27
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Re: good virus program??

On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:18:42 -0400, seaweed1317 brought this comment to my
attention:

> 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.
>
> Thanks in advance
> .....seaweed



On one of my machines, I use SpySweeper and really like it, so for the 10 bucks, I added the anti-virus.
Can't complain and it's very unobtrusive.

Avast! antivirus is excellent freeware, actually excellent anythingware. Good luck.
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I use Kaspersky. It has anti virus, spyware and spybot all in one. It works great
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