OT: Phishy Paypal -- reinstalling OS helps?

Alex Tweedly alex at tweedly.net
Wed Oct 26 15:06:51 EDT 2005


Timothy Miller wrote:

> Good anti-malware software, frequently updated, can clean up an 
> infected machine, if it's not grossly infected. But ya gotta pay for it. 

Why do you say that ? 

> I pay my annual subscription to Norton Internet Utilities, just so I 
> can use my XP machine on the internet occasionally.
>
I had Norton - and gave up using it part-way through my subscription 
year, in favour of AVG ( + ZoneAlarm + ...)

AVG updates far more quickly and reliably, Norton seemed to have some 
problems on anything less than perfect Internet connections.

I've never seen any independent reports suggesting that AVG was any less 
effective, or updated any less promptly, than the commercial products.


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