Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:41:39 -0800
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From: Old Volks Home <oldvolkshome@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: NVC at all (computer question)
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Robert -
Perhaps I should have elaborated a bit more on Spybot S&D. I've been
running that for about 3 years now (along with McAfee) and it always caught
stuff. Niether caught that nasty little bug a few months back. Then I
installed Spyware Doctor and found/caught it, chewed it it up into little
bitty bytes and spit it out. Once I got the system cleaned, I then removed
McAfee and replaced that with AVG (paid version), both running with as
they're supposed to catching stuff here and there, left and right.
It's just lately Spybot S&D is not catching much of anything, much less the
stuff AVG and Spyware Doctor IS catching for the past few months. I
supposed I kept using S&D because it has served me so well in the past. Out
of habit I have run S&D first and not caught anything that a subsequent AVG
or Spyware Doctor scan subsequently catches. Which is why I may uninstall
S&D 'cause I don't need a program taking up space on my laptop's 300Gig Hard
Drive.
I do agree that if your op system is configured, maintained and defended on
a regular basis, practically every day is trouble free for me. I don't
spend near as much time tangling with viruses, trojans and what ever else
related now as I use to a year ago. Ya live and learn ;-)
I was a staunch McAfee man for many years. But I've become disappointed
with their program's quality and abilities compared with AVG and Spybot.
Thanx
--
Jim Thompson
84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
oldvolkshome@gmail.com
http://www.oldvolkshome.com
jim@airheadparts.com
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On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Robert Fisher <refisher@mchsi.com> wrote:
> --snip--
> The AVG and the "Doctor" (I know, Dr Who pun) is usually the only ones that
> detect any infections or
> questionable "stuff". Spybot hasn't detected anything in the past 4 months
> and it's updated daily. I may uninstall it if it's just gonna take up
> space
> on the laptop.
> --snip--
>
> Not that I think you're stoopid, but I immediately had this picture of you
> running the AVG and Dr. first and then thinking 'wow, Spybot never finds
> anything...'.
> My Spybot catches stuff all the time. Guess it's one of those 'YMMV'
> things,
> however in my experience a properly configured, maintained and defended XP
> installation is relatively trouble-free. I too now spend much less time
> keeping my family's computers running properly. As to the Apple argument,
> if
> most of the people I know had to get an Apple product before they had a
> computer in their lives and/or got on the Internet, it never would've
> happened. I guess it's up to the beholder as to whether that's a good or
> bad
> thing in general.
>
> Cya,
> Robert
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