Sympatico + Norton + OFT

[Meng Cheah]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

>On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 10:28:11AM -0400, John McGregor wrote:
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>>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:
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>>http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-virus-free/lng/us/tpl/v5
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>>and the free version of Zone Alarm.
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>>Thunderbird will work with Sympatico's new servers if you select the 
>>'use TLS, if available' security option for both incoming and outgoing 
>>connections.
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>>A far better option, of course, is to switch them to Linux at the 
>>earliest possible convenience.
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>In my experience, both norton and zone alarm are to be avoided.  Life is
>better without them.
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I've heard of complaints about Norton but Zone Alarm?
Perhaps you can share your experiences.
Thanks in advance.

>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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