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Anti Virus
11-12-2007 6:37 AM
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When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you. But because in that brief moment while the coin is in the air. You suddenly know what you are hoping for.
Re: Anti Virus
11-12-2007 7:02 AM
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Re: Anti Virus
11-12-2007 1:06 PM
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Re: Anti Virus
21-12-2007 3:01 PM
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Well Recommended Thank you AVG for keeping my computer safe.
Re: Anti Virus
21-12-2007 4:02 PM
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So in the rather odd position of running Norton on my desktop and AVG on the laptop. The Norton (v2008) still has over 300 days to run, but when it expires I shall certainly not be renewing it and going with AVG on the desktop as well, if I thought I could get some credit for it, I'd probably ditch it now!!
Between the 2 computers I have around 5 different spyware running + MS defender (I'm a bit paranoid about them I suppose) it never ceases to amuse/mildly concern me though, they can be run one after the other, and all can come up with different answers after scans, which is one of the reasons I keep so many in use.
When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you. But because in that brief moment while the coin is in the air. You suddenly know what you are hoping for.
Re: Anti Virus
24-12-2007 5:15 PM
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Re: Anti Virus
24-12-2007 8:28 PM
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Re: Anti Virus
24-12-2007 10:29 PM
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When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you. But because in that brief moment while the coin is in the air. You suddenly know what you are hoping for.
Re: Anti Virus
26-12-2007 7:52 AM
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To return to your point (that'll make a change!!) the uninstall of the bundled Norton -in the first instance I had installed it- was fairly painless if rather long winded. It took several "searches" of norton or symantec to track down all the entries. the entry in add/remove programs (or whatever it's called in Vista) being particularly resistant. I wouldn't mind taking a bet there are still "bits" of it lurking around somewhere though. Anybody know if it's likely to be in the bundled recovery partition, or should that be strictly Windows only?
When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you. But because in that brief moment while the coin is in the air. You suddenly know what you are hoping for.
Re: Anti Virus
26-12-2007 8:23 AM
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Quote from: petlew I wouldn't mind taking a bet there are still "bits" of it lurking around somewhere though. Anybody know if it's likely to be in the bundled recovery partition, or should that be strictly Windows only?
Windos backs up all the Software on your computer.
Re: Anti Virus
26-12-2007 8:33 AM
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When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you. But because in that brief moment while the coin is in the air. You suddenly know what you are hoping for.
Re: Anti Virus
26-12-2007 1:41 PM
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When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you. But because in that brief moment while the coin is in the air. You suddenly know what you are hoping for.
Re: Anti Virus
26-12-2007 10:40 PM
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Re: Anti Virus
27-12-2007 2:50 AM
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I have to sort out a new laptop for some relatives next week and the first thing I will do is take the Norton bloatware off and put Avast on! Norton is not the best, but buys its way on to machines and makes itself a pain to remove. Maybe they should be up for an anti-trust / monopoly legal action!
Re: Anti Virus
02-01-2008 7:18 AM
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I didn't give it much thought at the time, but now my curiosity is pinched. Why? should this be, how does a presumably read only software disk (the Norton) know that I've used it 3 times on 3 different computers? Presumably it's not as first thought a read only disk and, has some RW element in it.
Does this mean that if I'd simply added an (available) non-RW CD/DVD player only to the PC and used that, switched off the internet connection during loading, said "no" or "later" to any update/registration options etc. I could use the Norton disk an unlimited number of times?
When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you. But because in that brief moment while the coin is in the air. You suddenly know what you are hoping for.
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