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| Thread ID: 27392 | 2002-11-21 08:38:00 | antivirus debate is open (again) | loser (538) | Press F1 |
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| 100290 | 2002-11-21 23:52:00 | > So how did you get your nickname Baldy? > > > :D > > .Clueless Its to do with an AllBlack and vegetables (true Story LOL) BALDY:-) |
Baldy (26) | ||
| 100291 | 2002-11-21 23:55:00 | > Just look at the smiley he posts after his name :D HEY! Stop hasselling my smiley BALDY:-) |
Baldy (26) | ||
| 100292 | 2002-11-22 00:14:00 | I've used NAV and have no probs with it and so far nothing has been slipped thru (touch wood) :P BTW .. I don't see ppl mention McAfee or PC Cillin here ? |
SKT174 (1319) | ||
| 100293 | 2002-11-22 00:24:00 | Posts based on "beware i had this problem" will of course be biased against Norton not because of it's quality, but because of it's commonness and therefore there are far more users to report any problems.. I'd love to see stats that compare % of problem reports and % of users of the various AV progs .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 100294 | 2002-11-22 00:27:00 | > > Just look at the smiley he posts after his name :D > > HEY! Stop hasselling my smiley > > BALDY:-) Hey, Smiley's rock :D:D:D But more on the topic, Ugly - Doesnt matter to me... Easy access to common funtions and items being where they're expected.. Does... It took me a wee while to figure out where the update was, but once you've had it open for a few minutes, its easy enough to use. It's not as greased over as Norton though.. Sorta like looking at Win98 and then at WinXP!!!! It works though, so I'm happy with it, and I'd suggest it to anybody who's AV subscription's up for renewal and would rather not pay. Baldy's sweet thou... If anybody get's their AV Sub's like that, Good on them :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 100295 | 2002-11-22 00:37:00 | >BTW .. I don't see ppl mention McAfee or PC Cillin here ? I can't speak of McAfee, but PC Cillin is software i have removed on two of the machines on a network because its very presence seemed to take the performance too far down, and for no good reason The machines i am talking about were not slugs, they CPUs are both well over the gig mark, one has 1¼ gig of ram the other a modest ¼gig.. AVG went on both these machines and the performance increase has been noted by the machines users .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 100296 | 2002-11-22 00:40:00 | *Nods in agreement* It came with my motherboard.. I put it on and it slowed the 933Mhz celeron to a crawl. Removed it and put on norton and the increase in speed was huge.. Removed Norton and put on AVG and I've been even happier since... Much faster with both changes! (Note, this was on 128MB RAM, but a few weeks ago I upped it to 256 and its been even better!) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 100297 | 2002-11-22 03:59:00 | I don't agree that Bugbear "got past" Nortons. When the story burst I started receiving Bugbear driven emails but not being totally stupid I didn't open any. I then tried to update Nortons for two days (wondered why I couldn't of course) before discovering that the Bugbear signature had been included in an update the day before the story broke, and before I started getting the emails. It's all in how often you update and I update everytime the auto-update alert comes in and also everytime I even hear a sniff about new virii. As for resources, Old Faithful is a P166 with 192MB and Nortons doesn't make any discernable difference. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Cheers Billy 8-{) :D Virus free for 6 years and counting :) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 100298 | 2002-11-22 04:09:00 | >I don't agree that Bugbear "got past" Nortons i kept the email with bugbear, if you like i could forward it to you for authentication purposes . I was reading all the descriptions of bugbear in this forum at the time, so the weird email with the exactly (whatever it was) sized attachment was treated with kit gloves, and placed in my "viri" folder . 2 days later i got another one, but this time NAV spun out about it . . Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 100299 | 2002-11-22 04:19:00 | Well Billy the bugbear virus got past clueless. But as you say its all about the updated definitions. clueless was merely the second person in the world to receive the virus hence nortons wasn't able to get to him in time. Not a lot of people can get to clueless in time :-) just jk clueless :-p IN regards to PC-cillin. i had the 2002 edition on my 450Mhz, and it didn't hog at all, its checking speed is tested to be one of the fastest. The amount of RAM it uses is less than NAV. It was slow to load at startup however. Note: any antivirus will run slow on 128MB as its most likely that you have used up your RAM, and its probably sitting in VM. Mcafee i havn't had much experience with. But it is from a reputable company so i'm sure it is just as good. The only antivirus i know to stay away from is that Panda Antivirus. When i tried it it was reasonable hard to use, and it just didn't feel right. I think it was rather large also. (a very subjective biased opinion by me) I note that Panda now has a distributor in NZ, so you will probably see it more in the shops |
roofus (483) | ||
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