Sympatico + Norton + OFT

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 10:28:11AM -0400, John McGregor wrote:
> Its been my experience that the various Norton products do no work well 
> / at all with Win XP and can be the root cause of major problems over 
> and above sending / receiving email.. When a client presents me with a 
> new PC, the first thing I do is to look for Norton Antivirus / Internet 
> Security and then uninstall it. I replace it with the free version of 
> AVG Antivirus:
> 
> http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-virus-free/lng/us/tpl/v5
> 
> and the free version of Zone Alarm.
> 
> Thunderbird will work with Sympatico's new servers if you select the 
> 'use TLS, if available' security option for both incoming and outgoing 
> connections.
> 
> A far better option, of course, is to switch them to Linux at the 
> earliest possible convenience.

In my experience, both norton and zone alarm are to be avoided.  Life is
better without them.

AVG seems decent enough, although I wish there was an option in the free
version to tell it to always quarentine a virus when found, rather than
the popup question that disappears after 30 seconds.

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Len Sorensen
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