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On 8/15/2011 7:10 PM, Twayne wrote:
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AVAST is another free, but effective antivirus. I have
used it for a couple of years now and it does a bang up
job, and is updated sometimes twice a day. It has great
detection, and in the last two+ years has given me no
false hits.

As noted above, scans can take a long time. Hang with it
though as if this is a virus in your boot sector, once it
finishes its scan, the program will need you to reboot so
it can scan your start up files. Then it will finish up.

No antivirus/spyware is 100%, and some pick up things
others won't. Don't be afraid of the free stuff (remember
though, they *love* an donation or actual purchase!) as
it turns out most of the free stuff like AVAST, AVG, and
Trend Micro test nearly as good or better than Norton and
McAfee.

They also take less resources from your machine, and if
you delete them, they are gone. Just try and get rid of
Norton..... I have had it on twice on two different
machines, and it can't even uninstall itself. There are
bomb fragments all over the machine when you uninstall,
and if you don't run a registry cleaner it will still
loads remnants (or at least try to) of the program.

WRONG. Use the Norton removal tool and remove all the objects required to be
removed. It is NOT necessary, and is less effective, to try to use a
registry cleaner if you are a newbie to such things and pick the wrong one.
A couple are great programs; others not so great, others better for newbies.

McAfee..... two commercial versions later, and too many
false positives to count. Both programs are bloated
larger than the Hindenburg, and while they test out well
in most cases, you will find the tests are run on newer
machines with a lot of available resources. If your
machine is older, say more than a couple of years, those
two programs will slow your machine considerably.

WRONG. Norton's footprint is now very small and they even show it in a
monitor if you wsh to watch it at work in real time. McAfee I no longer
bother checking out but you have obvously not checked anything out about any
of the programs you speak of; you are way behind the times and are
presenting misinformation on almost everything you mention.

The problem with the Norton removal tool is that it has to be used over
and over to get all of Norton out. It may say the removal is complete
but until you actually get the message that all has been removed after
several runs, it ain't all out. And then there are specks of it
floating around. Perhaps you are not familiar with how it works with
older versions of Norton's array of products.

HTH,

Twayne`

Good luck, Zz. It sounds like this is an easy fix.

Robert

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