Re: Short List of Security Questions


Steve Dassin wrote:
"BC" <callmebc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Gotta run -- hope that was helpful.
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Thank you so much for your helpful efforts on security.These forums are
great for newbees to learn thanks to helpful efforts from experts like you.

9) Pony up and get yourself a good European anti-virus/antispyware package:
This is hard to understand.Is it they just make better programs?


The short answer is yes. European antivirus &
antispyware programs as a class tend to be much
better written than US equivalents: they do their
jobs thoroughly without causing problems for the
PC. Look at the widely used freeware programs
Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D, and AVG: Sweden, Germany
and the Czech Republic. Mikko Hypponen of the
Finnish company, F-Secure, is the primary tech
expert for the main US cybercrime task force. I
regularly have to advise people to uninstall Norton
because of it causing problems with email and web
access. I gave up on McAfee years ago when its
latest update couldn't detect a fast spreading bug
that F-Prot, a very simple, lightweight Icelandic
product, could.

-BC

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