Hopefully this will stop the 2-DAY-long system scans and other small annoyances.
I have wanted to boot AVG off for a year and a half now. Jane finally got 360, and I pounced. It’s taken me all evening to get rid of one and get the other installed, but those of you who have followed the local soap opera will be delighted to know it has a backup function, and other nice items. A registry cleaner. Online storage. A startup cleaner.
I am hoping for the best.
Two.
Days.
X_x
Wow; time to retire that puppy! Hope the 360 works better!
I am reminded of the last line of one of the Foreigner books. Can’t quote it exactly, something about Bren worrying that a situation wouldn’t work, “… but he hoped for the best.”
Sorry you’ve had to resort to Norton. Hopefully, you won’t have as many problems with it.
Is it my general lack of knowledge about computers or is it true that Apples do not have these problems? I have been using Apples intermittently since they first came on the market…..wrote many art history papers using the old disk drive and do not recall any glitches etc……..Apple Bonkers anyone?
May the 360 be kind…..much nicer to worry about Bren as character than Bren actually getting into print.
In general, OS X and other Unix-like operating systems (e.g., Linux) are less vulnerable to classic viruses. But one cannot ignore the issue: e.g., browsers use JavaScript, and virus attacks on JS are platform independent, just like JS is!
But in general, you’re right: I avoid Windows at all costs, because the cost is just too great.
I got rid of that Norton because it put a huge green tick on every file it had checked, blinding me every time I used windows explorer, which I do a lot. also it apparently doesn’t do the job its meant to – so I went to AVG, would you believe!
Two days?! And I thought I had a computer hog. Alas, all the anti-virus programs seem to be hogs. The one I am currently using is merely better than the one I used to use, Norton. By my experience, Norton should do better than two-day scans; so, you may be pleased — for a while.
Like purplejulian I ditched Norton for AVG and haven’t had any problems. Norton was a total bear to get out of the system; it left footprints everywhere.
Wow, I haven’t checked for viruses on my iMac since … uh … well, ever. Of course, I do most of my internet stuff from work (broadband) rather than home (dialup), so my computer has very little contact with the net anyway. I hope this doesn’t come back to bite me at some point…
My dad was fed up recently because one of their pcs got massively infected, and then two days after they got that one working, their other computer came down with a different bug. My stepmother wanted to know why my Mac never comes down with anything, and I said that hackers who want to mess up a big company have to target pcs, because there isn’t much point in taking down the two graphic designers in the building.
Good luck with Norton! I have it on my old laptop (Apple) and it pretty much sits there with nothing to do. Sounds like yours is going to get much more of a workout.
Everything is running faster. Including the flow of spam to the mailbox, which has become a spate. On the other hand, it’s amusing to see the latest sob story from ladies dying imminently who have a lot of cash to hand to perfect strangers. Why do they never turn out to be the lady I rescued from a cardiac-induced faint at the library? The dinner party I towed back to shore before they hit the dam? I mean, like, I want to WORK for my undeserved millions!
Just a note that all these programs have an Options/Settings/Config screen. Generally you can switch off features that you don’t like. That’s what the options are there for. Full system scans are seldom necessary, unless you really think you’ve got a virus.
I use Avast (switched from AVG a while back), and Online Armor firewall rather than the Windows firewall. Together with the NoScript add-on in Firefox, they provide pretty good protection.
Spam – I run all my email from various addresses through GMail, which has a really excellent spam checker, so I seldom even see spam, and I have only known it to flag a genuine email as spam on one single occasion a couple of years ago.
Configuring the Norton spam filter is apparently an independent operation: you have to know to search for it. (???!!!) Isn’t that lovely? I configured it. Now we’ll have to see if it works.
AVG is worse than a virus!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091021/ap_en_ce/us_books_stephen_king
Did you all see this story?
Why are we not surprised? The world is changing, and who knew it would affect books, which have been around for 4000 years in one form or another?
Or this one:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/21/barnes.noble.nook/index.html
Yet another ebook reader with its own take on IP.
Nook has five whole fonts! Wow. They *cannot* be using the word “font” correctly . . . maybe.
This is going to make the VHS/Bets or Bluray/HD-DVD format wars look simple.
Ack! Two DAYS?
I know you are brand-loyal to Windows, but I have to say, there are better Operating Systems out there. I would never do critical work on Windows if it was unavoidable.
😆 not so much brand-loyal as too set in my ways. I’ve been doing MS since DOS 3, and I don’t consciously think about my finger-moves: plus I use Word Perfect, and would have to spend way much mental energy trying to cope with something Linux-ish or Mac-ish. There was a time I’d have done the switch—I’ve investigated it twice—but Windows has finally gotten be a mere annoyance instead of a maddening mess.
My lasting-est piece of annoyance with Windows? The eternally stupid question—OK?
If it weren’t flippin’ ok I wouldn’t have given you the flippin’ command, —ok?
I used to use Norton, but currently I’m using Kaspersky. It seems to work pretty well, and isn’t too annoying.
Well, turns out 360 doesn’t have a spam filter. That’s annoying.
I installed the 30 day trial of Spamfighter, which has some features I like. We’ll see.