[Rhodes22-list] Mark ? about new virus ? Norton

[Robert Skinner]

I agree with Herb.  I use only the Norton Anti-virus,
and depend on Zone Alarm Pro for firewalling.  Also,
I use Netscape for email and Opera for a browser.

The combination has kept me out of trouble for the 
last 2.5 years.

/Bob Skinner
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Herb Parsons wrote:
> 
> People tend to get carried away with Norton System Works, and routinely
> install everything. I recommend against this, as many, probably most, of
> the programs are not needed. Some can even be dangerous. I recommend
> their Anti-Virus to everyone, and the rest, stay away unless you know
> what you're doing.
> 
> >>> flybrad at yahoo.com 11/09/04 10:33 AM >>>
> Rhodies,
> 
> A few weeks ago when Bill and I were, uh, sharing
> thoughts, I picked up some nasty
> spyware/pest/virus/etc. that McCaffe, Spybot, and
> Ad-Aware couldn't eliminate.  On the recommendation of
> a co-worker, I downloaded Norton System Works which
> included the Norton anti-virus program (and disabled
> McCaffe).  Norton "fixed" the problem but the System
> Works ate up a lot of memory and really slowed down
> the laptop.  A few days later, I ran some Norton
> programs and the system crashed.  After several
> attempts I got it to re-boot only to have it crash on
> another Norton program.  Finally it died because the
> operating system was corrupted.  IBM replaced the hard
> drive under warranty but I had to fork over the cash
> to reload Windows XP (the machine didn't come with the
> discs).  After some research on the net with my
> desktop, it seems that this is a re-occuring problem
> with Norton.  Has anyone on the list had this problem
> or do any of you computer gurus have an explanation?
> Right now I'm kind of anti-Norton.
> 
> I'm back to McCaffe only and so far no problems.
> Maybe it was just Bill!
> 
> Brad Haslett
> "CoraShen"