Isn't AVG the one in the news that locked up lotsa peoples boxes recently with an online upgrade that they had2 do sommersaults to fix??
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/app-security/showArticle.jhtml? articleID=212001916 I have been using Avast and am quite happy so far... -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:02 AM Subject: Re: yes or no to mcafee > I just got comcast internet snail plan (768up) which is ok for me > having had dialup (56k but really around 23-28k at best) for > years...comcast offers MacAfee suite which installs easily ...but the > cost in speed and footprint on the resources is very high which makes > my pIV2-1gb-winXPhomeSP3 machine run notably slower with many > "hourglass" times and very slow boot ...I took off MacAfee and put > back Avast and ZoneAlarm free and it's back to normal ... my net is > behind a router ...is this all I need? Mcafee? *NO* Dear god, no. AVG is much better and free. Not running as admin is the better solution. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
