Yes. Effectively, as I understood it, to continue to receive the definition
updates I would need to consent to receiving "marketing emails". No thanks,
I get several hundred of those every week. Part of my decision to move to
Avast!
NB this is the weekly database updates, not the v 8.0 engine.
--
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of John Hermanson
Sent: 04 June 2008 14:12
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: OT - anti virus / spyware programs
Anyone else using AVG Free receive a notice from AVG stating that definition
updates to that version would end? You would have to sign up with a third
party vender that would "cover" your subscription costs.
___________________________________
John Hermanson | CPS, Inc.
21 South Ln., Huntington NY 11743
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Johann Thorsson wrote:
> I double what Chuck says. I used NAV (Norton Anti Virus, later became
> Symantec) until it got so bloated and resource hogging that my machine
> was almost driven to a stop whenever I was opening a new file. At
> work we used McAfee, and had nothing but troubles with it all the
> time. We use Sophos at work now, it seems fine, but for some reason
> it shuts itself off every now and then, something you don't want to
> see in an anti virus program, so I would not recommend it.
>
> Personally I don't trust free programs for keeping my machines virii free.
> The program I started using once I gave up on NAV was F-Prot. It has
> served me well, is reasonably priced, even for multiple licenses.
> http://www.f-prot.com/index.html
>
> J
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 18:01
> Subject: [OM] Re: OT - anti virus / spyware programs
>
>
>> Bloat is the reason that I finally got rid of Symantec's Norton
>> Anti-Virus. It had gotten so fat that it was taking over the
>> machine, couldn't get out of its own way and didn't know how to
>> uninstall itself without leaving hundreds of files and registry
>> entries behind... some of which continued to try and execute.
>> Symantec published instructions on their web site concerning how to
>> remove the stuff the uninstaller didn't know about but even the folks
>> writing those instruction didn't know it all. After meticulously
>> following (maybe 10?) pages of written detail it still didn't get it
>> all. The development process there was clearly totally out of control.
Not what you want to depend on for anti-virus.
>>
>> I wouldn't use McAfee either. I was forced to use that at work at
>> two different companies and it did us some dirt at both. I can't
>> even remember what it was now. I only remember being extremely angry
>> with bugs that never should have gotten out the door.
>>
>> It was someone here a couple years ago that suggested AVG Free. I've
>> been using it ever since.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>
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