From: Mike '/m' 

> "do no harm"

Good point.  Maybe I'll stay with avast afterall.

 /m


On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 12:17:35 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>
>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>news:dccdr11ni9eapkck6c7s9q00pdsnne9sk8{at}4ax.com...
>> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 18:20:58 +0200, "Antti Kurenniemi"
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
>>>news:43b69e06$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> Y'know, I've never tried F-Secure.  I'm shopping, too. 
Sophos is OK,
>>>> AVG
>>>> is OK, but not stellar at detection.  Kaspersky is a PITA
at times, and
>>>> I
>>>> haven't even looked at a centrally-administered version of
that.  NOD32
>>>> is
>>>> fine, it seems, say a couple of friends, but one of its components
>>>> conflicts with common task/searchbar addons (Google DTS,
toolbar; Yahoo
>>>> toolbar (from memory)).  You can run without the offending
component.
>>>>
>>>> We have a Finn here.  Perhaps he can tell us what Finns think of
>>>> F-secure,
>>>> and the story behind the split between Frisk, Iceland and F-Secure?
>>>
>>>I don't like it much (F-Secure that is), it's really bloated and too
>>>"clever" for it's own good. Also, all of the
virus-infected computers I've
>>>seen in the past couple of years have been running either Symantec or
>>>F-Secure stuff. I would not use it myself.
>>
>>
>> grrrr...  so what you're saying is that there's no good solution here?
>>
>> Maybe I should just go back to running no AV software.  I've never had a
>> virus infection.  At the moment I have the avast free version, and
>> that's been OK.  But they still have nothing for this WMF fiasco....
>>
>> What about trend? (oh, never mind about trend, I just visited their
>> website and they rate the WMF vuln as not critical....)
>>
>> /m
>
>I gave up on Trend in April when my processor went to 100 % utilization
>after an ill tested patch from Trend
>
>My chief hope for anti-virus software now is that it does me no harm.
>Currently I'm using the Computer Associates  anti-virus freebie that SBC
>provides. So far it's done me no harm unlike Trend, Symantec, AVG and
>McAfee.
>

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