> I have spent hours "fixing" systems for people who have
> used it and still got viruses - one comment that came up
> a few times was that "nortons is great but I have to
> close it down to do some things" - wall, it ain't great then,
> is it?
You often have to shutdown virus scanners to install things. Did they
update often? Did they have
the settings correct?
>
> Read James comments
>
> Having said that [about AVG] its free and definitely less
> resource hungry than Norton's, which I wont touch with a barge poll.
What version is that comment based on though? 2002 was very hungry.
2003 is not.
> I have not tested Norton's to find out if my gut feelings are technically
> valid and I have no desire to as I like what I use now and do not
> want to install something which I dislike just to prove I am right
> about it.
No first hand use and you still say it beats it. Pretty baseless if you
ask
me. The second part of that sentence is quite astonishing...
Haven't tried the others and was just wondering if they were worth a try.
Don't think I'll bother though.
JED
PS: I think virus scanners is the new Intel v AMD argument item.
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