Re: [H] -OT- Can anyone explain Norton's new ad campaign?

2009-09-15 Thread Tim Lider
Hello all, As of the 2009 product NAV and NIS are very good at what they do with a smaller memory and process footprint. I have seen many reviews from Maximum PC and even Tom's hardware that NAV 2009 was the Antivirus in December 2009. Not sure how it is now. BTW, I am using NIS 2009 and have no

Re: [H] -OT- Can anyone explain Norton's new ad campaign?

2009-09-15 Thread Rick Glazier
I took off about 5 years with Symantic products. (I spent too much time fixing them for friends, etc...) Then I got a Laptop with NIS2008, and after I got it running, I actually liked it (them) again. (It conflicted with other crapware that came with it from HP.) I liked it so much I added it

[H] FW: Apple IMac Accessibility, 'Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus'

2009-09-15 Thread Bino Gopal
Hey Steve, here's a much longer and detailed response from a die-hard Mac user at work! HTH again. From: Taryn VanWagner Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 12:44 AM To: Bino Gopal Cc: Taryn VanWagner Subject: RE: Apple IMac Accessibility, 'Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus' It's a

Re: [H] Hitachi hard drives.

2009-09-15 Thread Soren
Actually, Hitachi make some very decent harddrives. Some statistics (not documented, since they're coming from 'the source' - be afraid, very afraid :) +90 pct of returned harddrives are due to malware/spyware that makes the drive unusable. With Hitachi drives it may be a good idea to make

Re: [H] -OT- Can anyone explain Norton's new ad campaign?

2009-09-15 Thread Soren
Heh-he. A firm alternative could be antivir.com. They're usually ahead of the rest of the business (read: confusement), and will serve private users well, as in free beer. www.antivir.com Btw, I still run the Norton/Symantec bulk on several of my desktops. Reason? Antivir has a flaw in