Re: Anti-Virus Softwar - Mcafee 8.0 vs. Norton 2004

From: Mike Hall (mike.hall.mail_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 10/08/03 

Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 18:53:20 -0400

Norton sucks.. Use McAfee.. I believe that in some countries, firewall comes
with it.. 

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"Keith" <Keithcpd@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:078d01c38d1f$3462d220$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I am pretty new to the computer world and have a question
> regarding these programs.  I currently have Mcafee 6.0
> and the more I have started to read and "get into this
> computer/internet world" the more I see I have to
> upgrade.
> Any recomendations between the two.  On Amazon.com, in
> the review section, many people have said that Norton
> slows the computer quite a bit.
> One other thing I've seen, Norton internet security comes
> with a firewall, Mcafee sells the firewall seperately.
> Thanks in advance.

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