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[Robert Blackwell]

Seriously, you guys need to learn to stop auto quoting everything. very
annoying when you are trying to follow everything.

 

[kurttrail]

kurttrail said ...
well, it would be a reaI shameful waste of money to fly all the way
from the U.K. to the U.S. of A. just to jump off a bridge. What if I
just use Tower Bridge right here in London? Actually, I don't use
Symantec/Norton products anyway (happy enough using ZA-AV - oh god,
I'm not supposed to tell anyone what I use, am I?)

You goofed. Better watch out, the Symancrapphants will come and get
you, no matter where you hide.

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[kurttrail]

To quote you concerning this believe that Symantec is unworkable on
any system, "As far as I'm concerned you a just a bold-faced LIAR!"

Yes you are just a bold-faced LIAR, since I NEVER said anything like,
"Symantec is unworkable on any system."

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[kurttrail]

About as old as DOS....

Davy

LOL! Long time for this flaw to go unnoticed by Symancrap.

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[kurttrail]

We cleaned all the computers in a Sorority this year (we do it each
year) and there were machines from Win98 to XP+Sp2 and even 1 MAC this
year. A short summary of the results was that only the machines
running Norton/Symantec AV were clean, 2 machines running
NAV/Symantec without any updates had a couple trojans, all machines
running McAfee, CA, and AVG had at least 1 or more Trojans/viruses.

It was interesting to see that there were many less viruses infections
this year (around 100 total infection files), last year there were
over 8000 viruses/trojans on their machines.

My impression of Symantec has been that their non-AV software is total
Crap, if you combine their non-AV software with their AV software you
still have total crap. If you only run their AV software (not NIS or
any suite from them) then you get a stable (mostly for most people) AV
product that is better than any other (except for KAP).

While you do see many posts about Symantec AV and Norton AV, as normal
with Usenet, you only really see the people complaining about real
problems - you almost never see posts stating that a product has
worked great and if you do, it's only from a tiny fraction of people
that are using it.

My experience in the corporate and residential markets has been that
Symantec's AV products are almost perfectly rocksolid, my experience,
with the exception of running Symantec AV on SBS2003 with SBS2003 SP1,
has been that it's fast, easy, and not any problem at all. While you
can discount this experience, it doesn't change the FACT that I'm not
experiencing any problems with Symantec or Norton AV products on
corporate or residential systems. As for the other vendors, I've got
less installs of AVG, McAfee, CA, etc... and I have more problems with
those (and lack of protection) combined than with all of my Symantec
AV / Norton AV products installed.

LOL! That's why there are SO MANY POSTS in this MICROSOFT newsgroup
complaining about various problems with Symantec!

If you extrapulate that the numbers, Symancrap has more people with
problems the MS, since Symancrap threads are off-topic for this group.

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[Peter A. Stavrakoglou]

Thanks for the polite feedback - I've seen the types of issues you speak
of, and again, I would never suggest that you didn't experience them, in
fact I have never said that people don't have problems with product X,
Y, Z.

How long have you been using Avast Pro?
What benefits to using Avast Pro over McAfee or Symantec are you seeing?

Thanks

I've been using Avast for about one month now. I see no difference in the
protection aspect in Avast that I didn't see in McAfee and Norton. The app
does not seem intrusive at all. I get occcassional emails with viruses
attached due to my posting on usenet using my real email address. Avast has
caught three of them in the last week, two masquerading as MS emails.
McAfee was doing the same until the subscription ran out. I haven't tried
Norton in about three years now. McAfee 8 was much better at *not* using
system resources like Norton did and Norton's Live Update just didn't work
at times. McAfee also had a smaller footprint as does Avast.

I'm a tinkerer and I'm willing to try new software apps. I'm a good loyal
customer to most brands once I'm happy with them as I was with McAfee, but I
was willing to try Avast. I've got three other McAfee licenses running on
other home systems and they continue to work well. It looks like I'll be
keeping Avast, it's working well. Their free version works just as good and
they even offer tech support for the free version.

 

[Leythos]

I've been using Avast for about one month now. I see no difference in the
protection aspect in Avast that I didn't see in McAfee and Norton. The app
does not seem intrusive at all. I get occcassional emails with viruses
attached due to my posting on usenet using my real email address. Avast has
caught three of them in the last week, two masquerading as MS emails.
McAfee was doing the same until the subscription ran out. I haven't tried
Norton in about three years now. McAfee 8 was much better at *not* using
system resources like Norton did and Norton's Live Update just didn't work
at times. McAfee also had a smaller footprint as does Avast.

I'm a tinkerer and I'm willing to try new software apps. I'm a good loyal
customer to most brands once I'm happy with them as I was with McAfee, but I
was willing to try Avast. I've got three other McAfee licenses running on
other home systems and they continue to work well. It looks like I'll be
keeping Avast, it's working well. Their free version works just as good and
they even offer tech support for the free version.

Thanks for the feedback.

 

[Davy]

Anyone any knowledge of Shield pro, 6Star reviews seems to rate i
highly but yet it's hardly mentioned in NG's

Thought I'd ask here since this NG's alive and buzzing, seem to hav
no joy anywhere else, thanks

Dav