Re: Security Alerts Driving Me INSANE!

From: AlexP (AlexP_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/16/05

  • Next message: Carey Frisch [MVP]: "Re: Security Alerts Driving Me INSANE!" 
    Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 15:05:09 -0700

    Let me then be the one to say "OMG!" because of the amount of attitude in
    your reply - I have no idea what elicited this.

    Thanks for explaining to me when I should use a firewall and/or antivirus
    software. Good thing I was already aware of this - as I wrote in my initial
    post I sometimes turn off NAV when NOT on the internet and I have to run
    something that uses a lot of CPU. I always have these things switched ON when
    online - seeing as thats what they're designed for 'n stuff.

    I won't say my computer is very up to date but I will say this is beside the
    point - I take great pains to keep my computer healthy and free of
    spyware/trojans/etc (be it through regular system scans using NAV and
    programs like Ad-Aware and Spybot).

    I can also assure you that my NAV is completely up to date.

    I have already contacted Symantec and they squarely point the finger of
    accusation at Windows XP (this ofcourse may be just one big corporation
    trying to shove the responsibility over to the other big corporation.)

    In short, your reply has, as of yet, helped very little.

    "Shenan Stanley" wrote:

    > Let me be the first to say "OMG!"
    >
    > The only reason, really, that you need a firewall and antivirus software is
    > because you use the Internet with your computer. Email, web surfing,
    > instant messaging, etc. If your computer is so crippled that you need to
    > turn of Norton during the use of the internet, perhaps it is time you
    > cleaned up and considered (possibly) a hardware upgrade or three. Know that
    > there are also several free antivirus softwares out there. Many of them use
    > less resources as well.
    >
    > Truthfully - if your Security Center is not working, then perhaps you
    > already have problems you need to clean up? (In other words, from what you
    > have said, you should get what you want unless something else is wrong -
    > like your NAV is not upgraded properly, you already have
    > viruses/trojans/malware of some sort or something else..)

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