Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/11/19/14:14:47
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> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Michael Hipp
> Sent: 19 November 2004 19:06
> > <littleengland>I don't like it!</littleengland>
>
> I thought I was the only one with that opinion of McNorton.
We are not alone!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=norton+%2Bsucks
"Results 1 - 10 of about 87,900 for norton +sucks"
> If you simply must run AV, try something more civil like AVG. It at
> least as the virtue of mostly staying out of the way.
That is indeed what I almost always recommend to victims^Wusers^Wvictims
of Norton's bugware, and I can't praise it highly enough. Small, simple,
unintrusive and effective.
Oh, and just to be absolutely clear: it's not just "Not-on" AV, it's
absolutely *everything* Norton: their internet security package, their
anti-spam stuff, their pc-health-monitoring stuff: the entire suite should
be despised with deep prejudice.
I regularly get thanked by ex-Norton-sufferers, whose machines I have
removed it from and given them something decent like the AVG+ZA combination,
and they say things like "Wow, my machine only takes a fraction of the time
to startup it used to and everything it does is so much faster and smoother
running...."
cheers,
DaveK
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