I have been VERY satisfied with Frisk. I have their service, and I get=20
almost daily updates. Not a single hit since installing their AV,
and it's easy to use. They are from Iceland, I think. Has them for two=20
years now.

--Bob

Howard Winter wrote:

>Morgan,
>
>On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:23:18 +0100, Morgan Olsson wrote:
>
> =20
>
>>...<
>>About virus scanners, i have tested some: Norton AV should be avoinded =
(clumsy resource hungry, tedious=20
>>   =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 b=
ackup doesn't work!
>
> =20
>
>>Best so far is Kaspersky: Efficient, compact and frequint updates, conf=
igurable, and have won tests from=20
>>   =20
>>
>reliable consumer institute R=E5d&R=F6n for example.
>
>I recommend a product from your neighbours to the West - Norman Virus Co=
ntrol (and other products) have always=20
>performed flawlessly for me, updates are regular and responsive.  I got =
two updates within a day once due to=20
>the rapid development of new versions of viruses, and about two hours la=
ter I received a spam email that had=20
>the very latest virus that they'd just added!  Sometimes weekly updates =
are 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 cli=
ents) 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 firs=
t place).
>
> http://www.norman.com  I have no connection with them except as a satis=
fied customer.
>=20
> =20
>
>>Best is of course to avoid security hooles.  Half of them on Windows is=
 on MSIE.  And as it is rooted deep=20
>>   =20
>>
>down in the OS it can plant malware like no other browser possibly can e=
ven if they were tailored too...=20
> =20
>
>>The natural choice is Firefox.
>>Likewise change Outlook to Thunderbird for mail.
>>   =20
>>
>
>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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