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Posted by Chuck, WA on January 28, 2003 at 08:46:10 from (130.20.127.170):
In Reply to: OT need a good anti virus posted by RossMN on January 27, 2003 at 15:40:56:
Used Norton since as far back as I can remember, but switched to Grisoft AVG at home recently - in part because it's free. I won't go back to Norton. I guess I finally decided I didn't need the increasing number of bells and whistles that Norton was implementing, and don't care to pay for something I don't need. My experience has been that AVG gives me all the protection I need. I have a feeling that if you use the usual advised precaution of not opening e-mail attachments that you aren't sure are safe, almost any AV program will provide adequate protection. Nobody is 100% guaranteed safe, but while Grisoft doesn't update AVG as often as Norton or McAfee update theirs, they do it often enough. That said, I have had two infections in the past umpteen years, both while I was using Norton, and at least one of those was my own fault from having opened an atachment without thinking, back in the early days when viruses weren't common - think it was Happy Days. Fortunately, it wasn't a bad one. The other was at work - actually a trojan, CVT48 trojan - and I never did know how I got that one, but it was one that was relatively rare that Norton knew about but because it was relatively rare, chose to not bother with. I do use a firewall at home (Zone Alarm Free) and am behind one at work.
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