This will not surprise anyone who knows about computer

[fpb]

How in the name of Hell and of every variety of evil did Norton Antivirus ever become the best-selling commercial protection software? The damned thing is as damaging as the viruses it's supposed to fight. It has just caused me the most elaborate and unmanageable computer crash I have ever seen, which even led to me being physically injured (as I was removing the battery and the power cable, the only way I could see to shut the machine down, it fell over straight on my ankle, where it cut right into the flesh). To misquote the old song, Norton is a moron.

Comments

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I already had bad experiences with it in the past, and my ankle (not toe) just was the final straw. I should however say that if you have never tried getting rid of it, you should. AVG Grisoft has a good anti-virus system whose basic version is free to download, and you can integrate it with equally free SpyBot and AdAware: a combination of three helped me clear out a computer that was absolutely lousy with viruses and Trojans. Other people in this thread recommend Avast and Kaspersky, which I have never tried, but they can hardly be worse than effing Norton!

[secularhermites.livejournal.com]

I guess that's telling how much the imagination plays a part when reading - and in a hurry! ;) (toe/ankle) Thanks for the suggestions; in Sept the subscription runs out, I'm moving on. I'll have to do some checking to see if any of the said others conflict with QB.