Re: PA Bear

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

From: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE (franksaunders_at_mvps.org)
Date: 11/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:20:26 -0600

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php
or
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 

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"Dora Smith" <villandra@austin.rr.com> wrote in message 
news:oJMkd.9871$2v2.7167@fe1.texas.rr.com...
>I just installed AVG.
>
> After I got TERMINALLY fed up with Symantech.
>
> I had tried to learn how to renew my subscription for my Norton Antivirus
> 2000.   Hardly an ancient version, and the last version that will work 
> wiht
> Windows 95.   When the subscription expired the program tried to take me 
> to
> a link but I didn't have time to deal with it then  - and I couldn't get 
> it
> to take me there again.  I couldn't find anything solid about renewing
> antivirus subscriptions - at all, forget about 2000 - on the web site, 
> least
> of all prices and method.    I couldn't find an e-mail to find out.     I
> couldn't find phone number.
>
> My mother said she tried to call them last year and couldn't get through 
> and
> eventually just followed the online instructions for a very steep $40. 
> Just
> to renew the subscription for a program taht originally cost $20?  Already 
> I
> don't think so.
>
> Well, I finally found a NOT toll free phone number for the COMPANY, called
> it, got redirected to a toll free number, called it, got a LONG series of
> menus.  Finally pressing 0 took me to a Japanese sounding guy who didn't
> understand a thing I said, and I couldn't understand a thing he said. 
> "I
> don't understand you" got the same thing mumbled again or "Yes.".   So I
> hung up and called back, got a very conscientious Indian lady who repeated
> everything back to make sure she understood what my issue was.   Then she
> said that it is not possible to renew the subscription for Norton 
> Antivirus
> 2000.   I said, Well, then good bye Symantech" and hung up the phone.
>
> I definitely don't recommend Norton - and somebody else had tried to send 
> me
> to another free program taht wouldn't work on my system.
>
> AVG is free, though you can buy a better version for I think their tech
> support told me $33.   It is low space using, very easy to use - and it
> found most of the adware on my computer.   It has blocked several adware
> things from autoinstalling.   Not that it catches all of them - I somehow
> deleted a few of them from my temporary folder yesterday and that ebates
> thing is on my system again.    It caught a virus-infected web site I 
> tried
> to go to yesterday, and it found good ol' Melissa in one of my WORD
> templates.   And it doesn't use much space on my computer.
>
> I learned about it from a number of people on my other lists who are very
> pleased with it.
>
> The address is something like http://www.griswold.com - but don't try to
> follow that link, as griswold is the name of the Presiding Bishop of the
> Episcopal Church.  Though he is so out of it he should have been a 
> computer
> geek - only I suppose his brain wouldn't handle it.   Griswolft or 
> something
> Someone will have it.
>
> Wait - I looked on the control center.  That';s grisoft.
>
> --
> Yours,
> Dora Smith