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Re: Fed up with Antivir
de Jast 04/28/2006 12:25
Don't use one. I think they cause far more trouble than they are worth!
They slow your machine down. One of them incorrectly quarantined my
mum's email and totally stuffed that up. It locked Thunderbird's inbox
so that it couldn't compact and the file grew to over 1Gb. I had to
stuff around to fix it.
Keep your system patched instead and exercise common sense, ie don't
open dodgy emails, and you will be fine. Ideally you should sit behind a
hardware firewall like a router, but you can also run up a software
firewall.
People have this false sense that because they are running AV software
that they are safe and secure.
mike wrote:
> I am sick and tired of the new antivir personal, with it's nagging splash
> screen every time I go on line, the updater kicking in (I thought it was
> only meant to do it once a day).
>
> So, ungratefully, I want to kick it into touch.
>
> I'm not up to speed on A/Vs, so can anyone tell me what is a current OK
> one; not too bloated, not too obtrusive, perhaps a reminder to update, or
> even a daily one, but please not one that runs *every* damn time I connect.
>
> Thanks for help
>
> mike
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