[DeTomaso] NPC...Norton 360

[Mark McWhinney]

I use Norton and Ad-ware (Free).

I have had problems with Norton, but it does a good job with the more
insidious viruses that are otherwise hard to diagnose and remove.

I have had a lot of problems with the PDFs that Mike Drew sends to me.  I
disabled the Norton email check a few months ago which seems to have stopped
the problem.  Apparently, the firewall saw Mike's email as a fire hazard.
(no joke).


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Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 2:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC...Norton 360

I also had a number of problems with Norton, and their parent company.

A number of products were suggested to me by either someone on this list, or
someone I dealt with via ebay.  The suggestions included what Asa Jay
already listed. (and have free versions, AVG, Ad-Aware, SuperAntiSpyware)
And SpywareBlaster.

AVG has a feature that will scan all incoming and out-going e-mail.
You see the footnote occasionally on Forum members posts.

These free yet valuable products have worked well, trapping a number of
"issues".  Only once has there been a "false-positive", and that is when 
someone with a MAC (Mike Drew) sent a large file with corrupted header info,
which itself is a common virus-like symptom.

So if I have anything to add, it is "Ditto" to Asa Jay. (plus
SpywareBlaster)

Chuck


I personally, no longer recommend Norton Products, after crashing my  
own system doing a 360 install/uninstall and having at least two other  
clients crash systems after upgrading to 360.  Norton is extremely  
bloated and takes up a lot of system resources, ties up too much, is  
difficult to configure for the lay-person, I could go on.

Anti-Virus = AVG Free
Anti-Spyware = Counterspy, Spybot Search and Destroy, Ad-Aware,  
SuperAntiSpyware
Firewall = Zone Alarm

Asa Jay

Quoting Curt Hall <cuvee at sbcglobal.net>:

> Ok all you Computor Experters.
>
>   It's time for me to renew my Norton Spyware! Should I up grade to   
> Norton 360? I know there are many Spyware programs out there, and   
> some may work better then others. I don't do alot of business with   
> my computor mostly play on the net and email.
>
>   Any help would be appecated
>   Curt
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