Finally dumped Norton

urb · 2005-08-01, 11:06 AM

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.

RawAlex · 2005-08-01, 12:45 PM

Quote:

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

Surfn · 2005-08-01, 12:54 PM

I had no problems with Norton other than it was resource hog. Granted I have state-of-the-art maximum RAM. Still I just didn't like seeing all those processes running. Not to mention the extra time it took to boot my machine.

I have a friend whose has the latest version w/updates and all he ever complains about are the problems it's giving him.

2005-08-01, 11:06 AM	#1
urb All the way from Room 101 Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 3,557	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. __________________

2005-08-01, 12:54 PM	#3
Surfn If you don’t take a chance the Angels won’t dance Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Earth on occasion Posts: 8,812	I had no problems with Norton other than it was resource hog. Granted I have state-of-the-art maximum RAM. Still I just didn't like seeing all those processes running. Not to mention the extra time it took to boot my machine. I have a friend whose has the latest version w/updates and all he ever complains about are the problems it's giving him. __________________ Surfn's Links Are you a partner?