Re: Recommendation for Antivirus

Q Correll wrote:

Eric,

Norton especially qualifies more as a "virus nest" IME, I've seen
more than one machine "protected" by an up-to-date Norton, that would
be revealed as a host to hundreds of species of viruses and worms
once you ran an AVG scan on it...

And it is almost impossible to get Norton OFF of a system once
installed!!!

Symantec has some cleaner utilities hidden away in their support are (at least
when i last looked) which worked fine for me. Using the normal uninstall is as
good as deleting the folder ;)

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Hannes Danzl [NexusDB Developer]
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