Re: Good Anti-Virus program

From: Bronek Kozicki (brok_at_rubikon.pl)
Date: 09/05/04 

Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 21:53:58 +0200

FRIEND wrote:
> Hello everybody, I have been running Norton AV on my
> computer, but my subscription has expired. It still does
> the scan but it wants me to pay them money to get new
> virus definitions. I will not do that. I just installed
> SP2 and MS recomended "EZ Armor" on their website. So I
> downloaded it and when I went to install it told me I
> have to uninstall NAV first. Well, should I? Will it do a
> better job for me? Is EZ any good? Would you recomend a
> different program instead of EZ?

I'm using EZ AntiVirus few years already and I'm happy with it. AV
without current definition is useless - you should decide which one to
use (= you keep updating it) and uninstall the other one. You need to
remember that all AV are sometimes lagged with definitions, thus there
might be a virus which won't be recognized by your AV for a day or so.
By no means any AV is your warranty for security - Symantec, Computer
Associates or any other. Your brain is your first line of defence.

B.

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