Dolan, hey!
Business is business. While Microsoft has
a strategic partrnership with McAfee on Internet
Security, they have a strategic partnership with McAfee's
competitor, Norton/Symantec, on Anti-Virus. When you
loaded Symantec's Security disk, your PC probably did not
like your working with the "competition." Welcome to
modern business! LOL. Forgive me for saying it, but
personally, I would not use Symantec's "Internet Security
2004" unless it is Symantec's "Internet Security 2004
Professional". For most PC users, frankly, I wouldn't use
this program at all. For friends who do not understand
programming, I recommend a combination of (1) Zone Labs'
(Cognizant's PC security division) "Zone Alarm Pro
Version 4.5" for internet security; and (2)
Symantec's "SystemWorks 2004 Professional Edition" for a
beautiful combination of an extra-heavy version of Norton
Anti-Virus, Norton Utilities, Norton CleanSweep, Norton
Ghost and GoBack Personal Edition...this combo keeps your
machine lean, mean and clean...do not use Ghost unless
you read the intensely complex instructions carefully and
understand them fully. Total cost for the two programs at
retail approx: $150.00. Zone Labs you must download
www.zonelabs.com (no disk) and the Symantec you can buy
in your local store. If MSN is NOT your ISP, sad to say,
business is business and unless you can bend their arm
for free (doubtful), they'll charge you; besides, what is
so great about Internet Explorer? With 95% global market
share, it stands to reason that crackers (malicious
hackers) will target IE to hack; it's also a statistical
fact. This is not Microsoft's fault, but it is reality.
You may want to try Opera as a browser. Like (the
failing) Netscape, Opera only has 1% global share and as
such it is one of these two others' closest competitors.
Ask yourself: if you were a serious malicious hacker
(e.g. in it for the money, as most all crackers are), why
bother targetting an Opera or Netscape?
www.opera.com
Best, ~rotterdarned~.
