I can't say too much about AOL, but I can say Norton sucks from experience.
During the short time I was working in a computer store locally, almost
every computer that came in for a virus wipe, had Norton on it. I use the
word had roughly here, because the virus sometimes just killed it, and
sometimes it chewed it up, spat it out, and asked for seconds. I have never
been impressed with Norton, and always find that it slows the computer down
way too much, especially for us gamers. Some people swear by it, but I have
never had a reason to do anything other then swear at it.
I personally use Trend Micro's PC-cillian. Most of the pop-ups can be
disabled! It's all in there.for 2005 there is a pop-up manager in the
general options menu. If anyone wants, they can send me a personal email to
Tethas at Shaw.ca, and I will happily send them back a walkthrough on how to
set up PC-cillian. I find it fast, and the one time I did get a virus with
it on my system, it was my own damn fault. True, it is not perfect, but it
is as close to as I need to get, and I find it much better then Norton or
even AVG (however, AVG Free I personally believe would be the next best
choice)
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From: SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com [mailto:SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of nicholas m
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 10:09 AM
To: SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [SkunkworksAMA] Re: anyone else notice that virus?
aol and its firewall suck . this coming from a geeksquad aget. i say pc
cillin or norten.bout have there downs norten is a draing on the system and
pc cillin updates all the time its anowing .
----- Original Message ----
From: longtom2222 <bigverybadtom_at_aol.com>
To: SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, December 3, 2006 9:38:41 AM
Subject: [SkunkworksAMA] Re: anyone else notice that virus?
--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_ yahoogroups. com
<mailto:SkunkworksAMA%40yahoogroups.com> , George McMullen <byere254_at_.. .>
wrote:
>
> Y'know... everyone says "norton's crap" etc... but I've never had a
problem. I've used other virus checkers at the same time and I've never
been infected while I've had Norton on my system/s... I'll agree with
you on the whole popping up messages thing though. as for taking ages
to scan, I'd rather have my computer take ages to do a simple check and
get everything than suddenly switch to another type of anti-virus
software and end up with a million-and- 1 viruses/trojons/ worms because
the new thing isn't updated enough.
I have AOL virus protection, as well as AOL firewall, which gets
updated regularly. Are those any good or not?
Long Tom.
Received on Sun Dec 03 2006 - 16:17:17 CST