I use Norton's and the protection is good. It does cause problems with
real-time scanning and sometimes causes software problems. Crystal reports
for example cannot open some reports containing images if Norton's 2002 (and
others) have script blocking enabled. So yes it does cause problems but so
does any invasive application (we have one computer that died after
installing AVG on it, it became so slow we had to reinstall the OS).
Rob
Software engineer
Wild Software Ltd
Ph 03 377-0495
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Eggleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list offtopic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 2:39 PM
Subject: RE: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: Virus scanners
Chrissy wrote on Monday, 23 June 2003 2:30 p.m.:
> I have spent hours "fixing" systems for people who have
> used it and still got viruses
I assume these people updated their signatures religiously? As far as I
have seen, Symantec is one of the leaders in virus research and usually
announces new viruses early. If you don't keep your virus signatures up
to date then you can't expect to be protected from new 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?
All I can say to this is that I have never had to disable Norton
Antivirus for anything - games, software installation, etc. This is with
several different OSes and several versions of NAV.
I won't say it has been perfect, but NAV has certainly kept my PC virus
free for a few years now.
Cheers,
Paul
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