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T hank you, will give it a try. I got fed-up with norton missing a lot of stuff, and yes it was hard to get rid of, that allone makes me avoid letting it back. I found it excellent when it first started, I stupidly thought good could only get better.
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For anyone who has ever wondered "is my antivirus working" there is a safe virus test file that you can let your antivirus program try to detect. I am not suggesting that any of you who are "unsure of techy stuff". should try it but for those interested in furthering their knowledge of the workings of AV software it may be interesting. I offer this link with the caveat that you must read all of the bumph that is on the site and goes with the test files before trying it.
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If you do try it your AV software should catch it before it opens and either ask you what to do with the file, delete it or dump it straight into quarantine/virus vault etc.
mike
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For anyone who has ever wondered "is my antivirus working" there is a safe virus test file that you can let your antivirus program try to detect. I am not suggesting that any of you who are "unsure of techy stuff". should try it but for those interested in furthering their knowledge of the workings of AV software it may be interesting. I offer this link with the caveat that you must read all of the bumph that is on the site and goes with the test files before trying it.
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If you do try it your AV software should catch it before it opens and either ask you what to do with the file, delete it or dump it straight into quarantine/virus vault etc.
mike
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ive been using avast home edition for 2 years now its free all you have to do is re register every 14 months to keep its the best a/virus prog ive used yet give it a try. It warns you of any viruses etc and does everything any of the others do , and its free.
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I run IT (although not my profession) for a large company and we have e mail checked for viruses before we have it is delivered, we have yet to receive an infected e mail for 10 years and we receive 5000 a week, we also have the same protection on web site downloads, I am pretty sure many home ISP's offer this now !!
Chris
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maybe we have learnt and maybe some of us(well ok, me) can't learn, desperate to learn, but just too daft/female/old/whatever to take it in.
Don't be hard on yourself. There's a lot of conflicting advice around, and it's hard for anyone to be able to navigate through everything you read.
FWIW, I use Norton at home, and nothing else. I find it does everything I need, and although I've occasionally run the Ewido (now AVG) anti-spyware thing, I don't leave it running all the time.
I know a number of people on here don't like Norton for some reason. I've been using it for at least four years, and every year I'm very happy to re-subscribe.
Only my experience, but if you've got Norton, and you're happy with it, why have anything else as well?
Gerald
One valid point about Norton is that is it probably the most used virus checker in the world and years ago I too recommended it. I also know several people who use Norton without hassle and are happy bunnies.
But I also know that it is one of the most difficult programs to uninstall and this is deliberate - why. Even after an uninstall it will often bring up aggravating msgs that it cannot repair itself so needs to be reinstalled and the reason is to try and prevent users from using something else. And one of the dangers of Norton is that it is bundled free with many new PC's and many users do not realise (and I don't know why) that it works for only a period of time before you have to pay for updates. Thus their virus checker is not updated and yet the users still feel its OK as the program is running. There is nothing so bad as a virus checker that is out of date. Out of date is another word for useless. This of course is not Nortons fault.
I have also spent many an hour removing viruses that Norton failed to find manually and have difficulty finding anything good to say about it other than it is much better to have Norton than nothing.
Also in my experience, it is heavy on memory and when removed, if you can actually manage to remove it, you will find the computers speed is noticeably faster and in some cases much faster.
I think to pay the amount one has to pay for this level of coverage is not value for money and in the old days when Peter Norton was working for the good of his customers, the customers are now working for the good of Norton. I also judge many other programs re the amount of links they put in when the PC starts up. I think HP printers hold the record with sometimes 20 seperate links to there servers for, in theory, updates. Norton will often have 5 or 6 or even more as no two PC's seem the same. So one wonders why some companies need so many links to achieve the same purpose as other programs who manage updates with one link. I will not allow any program to update on auto so my links are alm
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