As Bill says Zone Alarm or something similar AVG and the Beta MS do not address enough of the possible ways into the systems. I also use Winpatrol - an annoyance when it woofs - but at least I get warned about things installing/changing the startup process 'list'
JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Hatcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 12:30 PM Subject: Re: Norton AntiVirus Problem > Welcome to the club. > > I had a similar experience is late 2003 when I "upgraded" to NIS 2004. Once > I removed NIS 2004, and without NIS 2003 installed either, the old Dell was > like a new machine. I had had NIS 2003 on my wife's machine too, and once I > pulled it off there, hers was significantly faster too. > > Upshot is I don't use ANY of the big dawgs any more. All the 8 or 10 > computers I care for for the extended family have AVG7 and Zone Alarm (both > free) and all except my machine are set for auto update (that is the only > way I can be SURE they are updated as they should be). > > - > Bill Hatcher > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Pete Holsberg > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 23:11 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WINHOME] Norton AntiVirus Problem > > ...I talked him into letting me uninstall NIS. What a difference in boot-up > and especially shutdown times!! > > Installed AVG and MS antispyware, and turned on MS firewall. > > Now we're both happy!... > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: > CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required. > > -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
