Re: OT: Eudora a good alternative to Thunderbird?

Joerg <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

John Devereux wrote:


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Good old norton - you can always rely on it to stuff up your machine.

AV programs are incredibly intrusive. I suppose they have to be. They
probably intercept every operation on a file or network packet.


What really irks me about them is that they are notoriously
disobedient. When you turn a firewall function off I expect it to be
OFF. It wasn't. McAfee on another PC is the same. It's going to be
outta here one of these days but first I have to find something
better. Tried out AVG but that has a rather huge footprint, slows
things down too much. Anyone know about the AOL version? Or does MS
provide something good enough?

I have not needed one for 5 years now. I use linux, with windows run
very occasionally as a vmware guest. If a windows vm starts
misbehaving, I can revert it to a pristine state in about a minute!

I do have to install AV programs for a customer - AVG seemed to be the
least worst (and free too).

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John Devereux
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