Morgan,

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:23:18 +0100, Morgan Olsson wrote:

>...<
> About virus scanners, i have tested some: Norton AV should be avoinded =
(clumsy resource hungry, tedious=20
update. =20

Indeed - I've seen several people who have paid for their annual renewal,=
 and then not got their Norton=20
software to accept that they've paid for it, and then have to go through =
all sorts of hassle, emails, phone=20
calls and so on, to try to persuade the support people to give them what =
they've paid for!  And if you've lost=20
the installed software due to a disk failure, it's even harder to get it =
onto the new disk.  Finally, a friend=20
has a Norton installation that has (so far twice) come up with something =
like: "This software has become=20
corrupted - please uninstall and reinstall it"... and restoring from a ba=
ckup doesn't work!

> Best so far is Kaspersky: Efficient, compact and frequint updates, conf=
igurable, and have won tests from=20
reliable consumer institute R=E5d&R=F6n for example.

I recommend a product from your neighbours to the West - Norman Virus Con=
trol (and other products) have always=20
performed flawlessly for me, updates are regular and responsive.  I got t=
wo updates within a day once due to=20
the rapid development of new versions of viruses, and about two hours lat=
er I received a spam email that had=20
the very latest virus that they'd just added!  Sometimes weekly updates a=
re just nowhere near often enough... =20
You can download and try NVC for a month, and if you like it you can pay =
for it at the end, for 1, 2 or 3=20
years' updates.  I have "converted" a number of friends, family (and clie=
nts) and none have had any problems. =20
They now have a tie-in with Ad-Aware, whereby you can buy packages which =
include the paid version of Ad-Aware=20
(that includes Ad-Watch that stops the spyware getting there in the first=
 place).

 http://www.norman.com  I have no connection with them except as a satisf=
ied customer.
=20
> Best is of course to avoid security hooles.  Half of them on Windows is=
 on MSIE.  And as it is rooted deep=20
down in the OS it can plant malware like no other browser possibly can ev=
en if they were tailored too...=20
>=20
> The natural choice is Firefox.
> Likewise change Outlook to Thunderbird for mail.

I agree completely - or the full Mozilla with all of the Browser / eMail =
/ News and so on in one package.

Cheers,




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