Re: Must ASk Twice

From: Thom Little (thom_at_tlanet.net)
Date: 11/14/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 22:23:43 -0500

I realize the difference.

There is, however, a whole section of Norton's that is dealing with spyware
scanning and elimination. My observation was that Norton's sux. 

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-- Thom Little -- www.tlaNET.net -- Thom Little Associates, Ltd.
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"CS" <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> 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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