[Dream] Unbelievable

[Joshua Tinnin]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:40:10PM +0000, Doofus McFluoro wrote:
> Yeah... but this is bloody ghost... not Norton A/V... how shit is that?

Sorry, I overlooked this and almost forgot about it ... Ghost is a
decent program. However, I've encountered numerous problems uninstalling
Symantec/Norton products. Acronis True Image is a very decent
alternative.

> I would
> be interested to see you list of free security products btw

Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware SE Personal, Spyware Blaster, AVG Anti-Spyware,
plus Avira AntiVir.

- jt

> On 2/28/07, Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     I do tech support for a small ISP, and we cleanup infected machines all
>     the time. One of our conditions is that, if Norton is installed, we must
>     uninstall it before cleaning. We install Avira AntiVir
>     http://free-av.com/ which is better at cleaning than Norton. Norton's
>     detection rate is very good, but it wants to take over your system and
>     be the only security software, so if you do get infected, you have to
>     install other software to clean it. The only way to do that is to remove
>     Norton. It sucks. McAfee sucks, too. We also use a number of different
>     anti-spyware products, all free.
> 
>     BTW, I have zero security software on my production machine. Every so
>     often I'll install A/V and anti-spyware and do scans, but I remove them
>     after, as I don't want the programs eating up processor power. And I
>     never use it for surfing, so the risk of infection is low.
> 
>     - jt
> 
>     On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 01:09:54AM +0000, Doofus McFluoro wrote:
>     > This os OT but WFT. I have had an issue for the last few months.  I got
>     > superfast internet as soon as I moved in to my Brixton pad. Having go it
>     up and
>     > running I found that my g-mail wasnt working properly... No chat
>     available and
>     > you could only load one mail before the browser crashed.  Thsi sometimes
>     meant
>     > 5 or 6 reloads before being able to reply.  However I was getting my 10mb
>     speed
>     > as promised.  e-mule and soulseek dl'd at a very fast pase and dl'ing a
>     30mb
>     > file direct was so fast it made my eyes cross.
>     >
>     > G-mail report that running Norton as your virus killer/firewall could
>     cause a
>     > problem and the online securty center that came with the broadband
>     package
>     > lookesd suspiciously like Norton.  So I uninstalled my 3 month free tril
>     > (grrrr). Didnt work.
>     >
>     > I just got a strange error...  norton error.  And I thought the only
>     Norton
>     > package I hace installed was ghost. I disabled Ghost and no G-mail issue
>     > anymore.
>     >
>     > While many of you guys recon microsoft are the bad guys I have to say
>     Norton
>     > are the mindfuckers... just say NO...
> 
>     > _______________________________________________
>     > DreamWeavers mailing list
>     > DreamWeavers at enabled.com
>     > http://lists.enabled.com/mailman/listinfo/dreamweavers
> 
>     _______________________________________________
>     DreamWeavers mailing list
>     DreamWeavers at enabled.com
>     http://lists.enabled.com/mailman/listinfo/dreamweavers
> 
>