RE: Please help me with antivirus/firewall software

From: r (r_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/05/04 

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 07:21:01 -0700

Fred,

You don’t need any “suites”, only antivirus and firewall (if you don’t have
hardware firewall). Norton is a good antivirus, and McAfee is ok firewall. If
they work for you, just renew the subscriptions.

Good Luck! 

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"Fred" wrote:
> 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.
>

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