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Off the Symantec Teat
Topic Started: Sep 14 2011, 10:55 AM (80 Views)
Trotsky
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Big City Boy
After 15 years I finally decided that the overweight Symantec/Norton system was just too much for this old gal (the computer that is.)

So I pulled out Norton (most of it anyways...still some crap left in the Registry which I am afraid to attack) and installed the FREE AVG. I turned on the Windows XP SP3 firewall and I;m behing a router. I may put in Ad-Aware or not...I remember it being tedious and not very useful, as soon as I dumped the adware it all came back again overnight.

Any suggestions on what else I should pop in? Free, of COURSE!
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friendshipgal
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Guess everyone wants their own Trudashians
Trotsky
Sep 14 2011, 10:55 AM
After 15 years I finally decided that the overweight Symantec/Norton system was just too much for this old gal (the computer that is.)

Phewww, you had me worried for a minute... the new Norton is not so weighty and much better than the older versions, but I find the MS free anti virus suite is just as effective.
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FuzzyO
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I'm using Microsoft Security Essentials and am happy with it.
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Darcie
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I also use Microsoft Security Essentials and have had no problems.
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Delphi51
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I found a virus yesterday, the first I've seen on my computer for a couple of years. It was a Trojan, attached to an email message trying to convince me to open it. I wasn't convinced. And the antivirus program didn't find it until I right clicked on the file and told it to check.

I may give up the continuous checker and just run Malwarebytes once a month. That would be a good one to install - it seems to be more thorough and doesn't run all the time so you get to use all your computer's power for other things.
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Trotsky
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Will Windows Essentials run on Win XP?
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FuzzyO
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yup.
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