Re: Recommend a Security Suite
"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@cable0ne.n3t> wrote in message
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> razor_303 wrote:
> But it's been several years since I've been tempted to try McAfee
> products. Their quality seemed to take a steep nose-dive after they were
> acquired by Network Associates.
I felt that way after Norton was acquired by Symantec. The original Norton
folks outshone everybody, including Symantec. Then Symantec bought them.
They haven't been as good ever since. Sure, they do throw a lot of money
into their product, but the quality that comes from enthusiasm is gone.
On the subject of the thread, however, I bit on CA's ad and spent all kinds
of time installing it, but when I ran it, it blew up. When I called for
support, the guy said, "Oh, we're not ready to support 64bit Vista yet." As
a programmer, I wondered why their software didn't know it was trying to
support the wrong operating system and refuse to install it! I don't recall
for sure, but I don't think the question was raised when I ordered the
software. I don't know if Vista64 has been in Beta since early 2006, but I
suspect it was since all kinds of developers have had 64bit products ready
at Vista introduction time. Needless to say, I'm not waiting for their
64bit system.
Bottom line: Someone asked in a post why folks were paying for antivirus
software when there were essentially as-good (if not better)
free-for-homeuse packages available. I bit and installed Avast 64bit. It
works fine, except that it needs a little better step-by-step: it has two
things come up and it's hard to figure out exactly what to do to insure it
is working, possibly because it is a Czeck group and I only do English. But
they seem to try hard and the basic product is very good, so I am very
pleased with Avast.
John