Hi Eve,
I use Computer Associates' stuff: EZ-Armor initially, now their Internet
Security suite, & they sell all the bits separately. I personally stopped
using Norton 3 years ago, as it was too resource-hungry (read as: the PC
would do nothing else!). I've sold most of my clients (enfin, both of them
;-) on CA, with no negative feed-back so far.
As far as removing AV apps goes, my first choice is their uninstall
procedure, next is Windows "remove programs", then a remover from the
vendor's site, & lastly, a session with regedit (save this for your best
hour in the day, having first backed up your registry, of course!). Works
for me, but YMMV!
I have managed to remove pre-installed Norton from a couple of new machines
using the AV's uninstall procedure: this seems to work OK if you catch it
within the first couple of months. After that, I guess it gets a bit
genetic, & you have to chase it away some other how.
Regards,
Richard.be
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eve Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 2:15 PM
Subject: Anti-Poll!!!
What are your LEAST favorite apps?
I have a reason for asking. McAfee came on my most recent computer. It's
the bane of my life. It's taken me an hour to boot up this morning what
with all the startings and stoppings and rebootings and changing the
default browser to IE because McAfee can't (do you believe this) use
firefox.
I can't stand it any more. It screws up every time I try to uninstall it,
but this time I'm going to take it off. I don't like Norton either,
although I don't hate it the way I hate McAfee.
What do you guys use for antivirus? I don't really care about their
"privacy" and "spamkiller" stuff. I can deal with spam and I'll just go
back to Zone Alarm.
-- Eve
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