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I recently bought a new computer with XP-home that was preloaded with
Norton Antivirus. I added McAfee Personal Firewall available from my
cable company.
The "free" time on both of these is expiring soon, and I need help
getting a permanent set of programs in place. I looked at using both
the Internet Security programs from Norton and McAfee, but both
require extensive operations on deleting all relevant security
programs as well as dealing with registry entries.
How likely is it to screw up these operations? Is it better simply to
renew the 2 programs I'm using--which seem to be doing their work just
fine--and forget about the other features that the suites offer? I
mean, I don't like spam but I've adjusted to it. I'd rather spend a
few seconds each day deleting spam than to spend hours cleaning up an
installation mess. Besides, the user reviews of both the Norton and
McAfee suites on CNET are really bad--and scary.
I'd appreciate any comments on these issues.
Thanks.
Norton Antivirus. I added McAfee Personal Firewall available from my
cable company.
The "free" time on both of these is expiring soon, and I need help
getting a permanent set of programs in place. I looked at using both
the Internet Security programs from Norton and McAfee, but both
require extensive operations on deleting all relevant security
programs as well as dealing with registry entries.
How likely is it to screw up these operations? Is it better simply to
renew the 2 programs I'm using--which seem to be doing their work just
fine--and forget about the other features that the suites offer? I
mean, I don't like spam but I've adjusted to it. I'd rather spend a
few seconds each day deleting spam than to spend hours cleaning up an
installation mess. Besides, the user reviews of both the Norton and
McAfee suites on CNET are really bad--and scary.
I'd appreciate any comments on these issues.
Thanks.