Same here re McAfee. I have Symantec corporate edition antivirus on all my computers and it has performed flawlessly and without the slightest interruption since installation. More expensive but worth every penny.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cedric Meyerowitz Sent: Tuesday, 19 September 2006 9:39 AM To: 'General Practice Computing Group Talk' Subject: RE: [GPCG_TALK] YADL Peter My sons new PC (received 4 months ago) came with McAfee for 12 months. I had to disable some of the features except for the virus checker, as his computer freq. froze & needed a reboot. Since disabling most of the features that came with McAfee all well now, so I'm not at all impressed with the whole McAfee bundle. Cedric ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Machell Sent: Monday, 18 September 2006 10:18 PM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] YADL On 18/09/2006, at 10:18 AM, Cedric Meyerowitz wrote: > I have used Norton's for 10 years. It has always kept my PC safe. > Has at > times saved me hours of heart ache. I know a lot of so called > experts hate > Nortons. HCN hates Nortons as you mis disable it to install or > upgrade MDS > &/or Practsoft, yet other Medical softwatre Vendors find Nortons > doesn't > interfere with there product. > > So I will continue using Nortons. 10 years ago Norton's system tools were quite essential - they added for example a decent defragmenter (which Windows still doesn't have out of the box). Then Symantec came along and turned it into bloatware (sadly they've done the same thing to Ghost lately). I'd rate the current Norton's as close to number 1 of the most horrid pieces of software of all time. Although I don't need AV for 90% of my computers, the one I use for the rest uses hardly any resources (Norton's AV uses around 20% when working well, which it generally doesn't do for long, Internet Security uses even more), and stays *completely* out of my way until it finds an infected file. I can't count the number of times I have been called out to clean a virus that a current Norton's missed. It's not alone - McAfee is almost as bad. If you've used Norton's for ten years you don't have anything to compare it with. Next time your renewal is due, humour me and download a NOD32 evaluation from www.nod32.com.au You'll quickly discover what's wrong with Norton's and thank me retrospectively. Peter. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
