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You may have an ugly surprise someday and it may come from surfing or
it may come by email. Then again it may come yet another way. I wish
you the best of luck saving that 10 or 20 meg of memory by not running
any AV software. My friends used to call me when their whole hard
drive was erased. I was not sympathetic to them having told them to
use AV software many times. Fortunately now days we have ISPs that
clean our email, most of the time, and clean sites they host, but
there are some smart guys out there that think harming you is fun.
You might want to rethink that common sense surfing and the computer
memory and CPU usage saved verses down time and loss of profits in the
market. Then again you may know a lot more than I do.
Jimmy
In my opinion it is a waste of time and CPU power to run an AV program all the time. They are mostly for kids and elderly who don't know what they are doing when they surf the web. The best AV program is yourself. I run trendmicro once in a while and I scan everything I dl but this is a free program from their website.
I use CCleaner and run it everyday. I also use a popular firewall. Common sense
in the end beats evreything out there.
Pablo
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:22:18 -0700, JHP <jan4123@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I used AVG, but after PC World's article ("Free program has subpar
> heuristics and one of the clunkier
> interface among the products we tested") I considered highest rated in the
> same article BitDefender Standard,
> but decided for 2nd highest rated McAfee VirusScan 2006.
> I also use McAfee SpamKiller which does a very good job, although is a
> little to invasive.
>
> Jan Philipp
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Marcott" <omegalist@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "jon" <jonmac@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "omega" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 3:27 AM
> Subject: Re: off topic: AV-Firewall programs
>
>
>> Jon,
>>
>> It's important to use AV software. I use AVG free edition. It runs
>> every night unattended. It's small and unobtrusive. I hate norton -
>> never had it, just have seen what's it's (not)done to friends PC's I
>> help remove viruses & spyware from.
>>
>> I rarely find viruses which are easily gotten when you have kids like I
>> do (none ever on my trading PC). Check it out at
>> http://free.grisoft.com/
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>> _______________
>>
>> "We must be proactive, eternally vigilant, forever fighting,
>> overwhelmingly clever and handsome." - Robert Love
>>
>>
>> On Apr 25, 2006 05:36 PM, jon <jonmac@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> From the last thread I remember, Zone-Labs would have recieved the top
>>> vote ??
>>>
>>> Still the case? (My Norton subs are up, and I want out) Now dumped
>>> Ghost for Casper, but Norton Internet Security Suite has been a legacy
>>> if
>>> just for having been too lazy to 'learn' another, or is it not wanting
>>> to
>>> reformat just to change AV programs!
>>>
>>> Norton are incredible! Anyone noticed how dirty they are at trying to
>>> force buying the latest Ver instead of just being able to resubscribe
>>> for the definitions (which used to be ~ 10 or 20$)
>>>
>>> How much do Zone-labs charge for resubscription to just the
>>> definitions (I also could not find these prices on their site!)?
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> jon mailto:jonmac@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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