Finally dumped Norton

[RawAlex]

Originally Posted by urb

I have a good hardware firewall plus I use Norton Internet Security 2003 and 2005 on top of that.

This week Spybot picked up on and destroyed three hostile items that were designed (or appeared to be designed) to disable Norton completely.

I am guessing that I picked them up from a web site whilst surfing.

I wouldn't be without Adaware and Spybot.

Yup, adaware is a good and powerful tool. The microsoft / giant software blocker is also quite good, they seem to be pretty good at getting things.

Oh yeah, don't use IE unless you are forced to. Firefox, Opera, or whatever is MUCH safer (not entirely safe, but MUCH MUCH safer).

When I use IE, I have it prompt before it runs any active-x stuff. I don't use IE very much at all.

Alex