Re: Must ASk Twice

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: CS (nomail_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/14/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 19:34:10 -0600

On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 19:51:18 -0500, "Thom Little" <thom@tlanet.net>
wrote:

Thom:

Norton is not designed to find spyware. The program David suggested
to you is designed specifically (Ad Aware SE) to find and eliminate
spyware. Nowadays you need both AV and Spyware protection.

>Thank you for the idea.
>
>I run Norton's ViorusScan religiously on both machines.
>
>Based on your response I downloaded a copy of Spyware Doctor and ran it. It
>identified 162 infections! I purchased a copy and ran the fixes. When I
>reloaded it no longer forced me to enter the request twice and the load was
>faster.
>
>What was I doing with Norton's other than spinning my wheels?
>
>Thanks for the lead.
>
>--
>-- Thom Little -- www.tlaNET.net -- Thom Little Associates, Ltd.

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