Re: Best AV prog for XP = KAV 5 right?

From: Carl Farrington (carl_at_000compsup000.net.invalid)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 18:21:01 +0100

chris@nospam.com wrote:
>
> I stopped using Partition Magic a long time ago. It's slow and
> finicky. I much prefer the products from Acronis. Acronis
> PartitionExpert works very well and much faster than PM. I also find
> Acronis TruImage to be a better product than ghost, mostly because you
> don't have to reboot to make an image. This makes it a true bare
> metal recovery that can actually be routinely used without bringing a
> server down.

I knew there was some good discussion on disk imaging software somewhere
that I'd read recently. This was it but I couldn't find it, so I went
through all the packages I could find (Paragon stuff.. buggy at best), and
ended up being *very* satisfied with Acronis TrueImage.

excellent. You're judgement in software seems to be very good!

cheers.

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