Well, I've had a few virii infected emails rejected by my Nortons 2000, never
had one get through, even when several people with my address all had major
problems. I can't remember the last time I bothered to stop NAV for
installations, the only time I stop it is when defragging, although that may be
quite unnecessary, I'm not sure. I haven't tried the others mentioned in this
thread so I can't compare, but I can say NAV has never let a virus through, and
I *don't* have to manually check anything - that's the whole point as far as I'm
concerned. The moment you start relying on manual steps, you open the door a
crack.
I'm running on an Athlon 750, that may help make it unnoticeable. When I was
running it on my old P75, I did find it ground the PC right down when running
one particular Java based program - I think it must have been doing a fresh file
access for every second statement executed or something daft - and I had to turn
it off while running it. Anyway, the app has gone and so has the P75, so I'm
happy to stick with Nortons. I am very confident in them keeping up with the
play when new virii come out, although again I have nothing to compare that to.
my 2c worth ...
Pedrocelli
----- Original Message -----
From: "Corey Murtagh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list offtopic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: Virus scanners
Chrissy wrote:
> How about this for a new ad campaign?
>
>
> I guarantee that this programme will protect you from
> 100 new very destructive viruses which will be released
> in the next month.
>
> Gangs have been getting protection money in the movies
> (and in real life) for years now - maybe this is the new
> protection racket.
There is a lot of hype surrounding AV programs. Not to mention lots of
scare-mongering. Fact is, if everyone was a little bit more
knowledgable about virii, and took some simple precautions, then we
wouldn't have anywhere near as many problems with virii as we do now. I
run AVG, and scan once in a while with Panda's ActiveScan, and I haven't
had a single positive virus report in close to two years... because I
practice some very simple anti-virus methods of my own, including not
using Outlook (sorry, but it's true) anymore, not executing attachments
before I check them out, etc.
Unfortunately most people online are just too uninformed, or stupid, to
do this. Thus they become vectors for every new virus out there.
--
Corey Murtagh
The Electric Monk
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!"
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