Norton Internet Suite is getting great reviews. Comments on what YOU
think is best are welcome.

Fruit2O wrote:

> Norton Internet Suite is getting great reviews. Comments on what YOU
> think is best are welcome.

0. Question is asked several times a week. Did you check recent posts?
1. Norton/McAfee are bloated, expensive pigs.
2. Use Avira, Avast, or AVG - all free.
2a. No anti- program is going to catch everything.
3. Use a router and firewall.
4. Use common sense - don't blindly click on everything.
5. Consider another operating system.

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-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Windows

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Fruit2O wrote:
>
>> Norton Internet Suite is getting great reviews. Comments on what YOU
>> think is best are welcome.
>
> 0. Question is asked several times a week. Did you check recent posts?
> 1. Norton/McAfee are bloated, expensive pigs.
> 2. Use Avira, Avast, or AVG - all free.
> 2a. No anti- program is going to catch everything.
> 3. Use a router and firewall.
> 4. Use common sense - don't blindly click on everything.
> 5. Consider another operating system.
>
> --
> -bts
> -Friends don't let friends drive Windows

Very well put - but I bet by Wednesday (at the outside) someone else will
ask the very same question ;-)

El.Plates wrote:

> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote:
>> Fruit2O wrote:
>>> Norton Internet Suite is getting great reviews. Comments on what
>>> YOU think is best are welcome.
>>
>> 0. Question is asked several times a week. Did you check recent posts?
>> 1. Norton/McAfee are bloated, expensive pigs.
>> 2. Use Avira, Avast, or AVG - all free.
>> 2a. No anti- program is going to catch everything.
>> 3. Use a router and firewall.
>> 4. Use common sense - don't blindly click on everything.
>> 5. Consider another operating system.
>
> Very well put

...and about as brief and concise as Fruit's post. <g>

> - but I bet by Wednesday (at the outside) someone else will ask the
> very same question ;-)

<clouseau>But of course.</clouseau>

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Wolf K wrote:

> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> Fruit2O wrote:
>>> Norton Internet Suite is getting great reviews. Comments on what
>>> YOU think is best are welcome.
>>
>> 0. Question is asked several times a week. Did you check recent posts?
>> 1. Norton/McAfee are bloated, expensive pigs.
>
> Norton has been getting good reviews recently because it's no longer
> bloated. Expensive? It's expensive if it doesn't do what you want,
> cheap otherwise.

I think it is still bloated.

>> 2. Use Avira, Avast, or AVG - all free.
>
> Avast and AVG set themselves to run in the background when they
> install. That's a major flaw, amounting to a deal breaker for me.

Why a deal-breaker? For most n00bs, that's the best way.

>> 2a. No anti- program is going to catch everything.
>
> So you need more than one - but if they set themselves to run in the
> background upon instillation, they will interfere with each other.
> Bah!

Oh no, don't do that. Just ONE anti-virus program, but several other
scanning anti-*malware* apps are needed as well - for those n00bs.

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-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Windows

Wolf K wrote:
> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> Fruit2O wrote:
>>
>>> Norton Internet Suite is getting great reviews. Comments on what YOU
>>> think is best are welcome.
>>
>> 0. Question is asked several times a week. Did you check recent posts?
>> 1. Norton/McAfee are bloated, expensive pigs.
>
> Norton has been getting good reviews recently because it's no longer
> bloated. Expensive? It's expensive if it doesn't do what you want, cheap
> otherwise.

Unfortunately, those who would rate Norton "good" are not those who I
might depend upon for an opinion to professionally protect an entire
company, corporation, or arm of a major governmental super power.

Try checking out what some of the professional research organizations
have to report about Norton:

<http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archive/results?display=summary>

<http://www.av-comparatives.org/>

I'm fairly certain you know this; A Norton product should not be
considered a Symantec product - and a Symantec product should not be
considered a Norton product. So that is for the benefit others...

>> 2. Use Avira, Avast, or AVG - all free.
>
> Avast and AVG set themselves to run in the background when they install.
> That's a major flaw, amounting to a deal breaker for me.

So does Avira. If real-time protection is your goal (hopefully),
that's a trade-off. It's one most of us are willing to make. Perhaps
AVG still has the largest foot print of all these though.

>> 2a. No anti- program is going to catch everything.
>
> So you need more than one - but if they set themselves to run in the
> background upon instillation, they will interfere with each other. Bah!

Sometimes yes. But several of the very best /do/ work and play well
with others.

>> 3. Use a router and firewall.

I'm sure BTS means a NAT router here.

>> 4. Use common sense - don't blindly click on everything.
>> 5. Consider another operating system.
>
> Yup.
>
> wolf k.

Regards,

Pete
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1PW @?6A62?FEH9E=6o2@=]4@> [r4o7t]

1PW wrote:

>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>>> 3. Use a router and firewall.
>
> I'm sure BTS means a NAT router here.

Of course. The extra word(s) didn't fit in with the conciseness of my
post. <g>

I wonder if Fruit will be back to the thread...

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-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Windows

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> 1PW wrote:
>
>>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>>>> 3. Use a router and firewall.
>> I'm sure BTS means a NAT router here.
>
> Of course. The extra word(s) didn't fit in with the conciseness of my
> post. <g>

We all new that... :-) Yes we did...

> I wonder if Fruit will be back to the thread...

Compared to other threads we see, this is a fairly intelligent
discussion. Sometimes only one poster at a time gets enlightened.
Other times many are brought on-board.

Fruit2O is a Rhode Islander and probably sitting down to Sunday dinner
now.

Pete
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1PW @?6A62?FEH9E=6o2@=]4@> [r4o7t]

On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:16:13 -0700, 1PW <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> 1PW wrote:
>>
>>>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>>>>> 3. Use a router and firewall.
>>> I'm sure BTS means a NAT router here.
>>
>> Of course. The extra word(s) didn't fit in with the conciseness of my
>> post. <g>
>
>We all new that... :-) Yes we did...
>
>> I wonder if Fruit will be back to the thread...
>
>Compared to other threads we see, this is a fairly intelligent
>discussion. Sometimes only one poster at a time gets enlightened.
>Other times many are brought on-board.
>
>Fruit2O is a Rhode Islander and probably sitting down to Sunday dinner
>now.
>
>Pete

You're clairvoyant!!! I'm also reading the thread and learning
something. Thanks...........

On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:16:13 -0700, 1PW <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> 1PW wrote:
>>
>>>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>>>>> 3. Use a router and firewall.
>>> I'm sure BTS means a NAT router here.
>>
>> Of course. The extra word(s) didn't fit in with the conciseness of my
>> post. <g>
>
>We all new that... :-) Yes we did...
>
>> I wonder if Fruit will be back to the thread...
>
>Compared to other threads we see, this is a fairly intelligent
>discussion. Sometimes only one poster at a time gets enlightened.
>Other times many are brought on-board.
>
>Fruit2O is a Rhode Islander and probably sitting down to Sunday dinner
>now.
>
>Pete
How did you know I was a Rhode Islander?