Impending BFBVFS? or Bad Pooter.... baaaaaaad
ZephyrZodiac:
Yes, I know, but I am using the Link, dammit! So I have to stay connected, and there's no way I'm doing that without AV and Firewall in place!
When playing earlier versions of the game, with cd, I've played both with and without AV, and I've never noticed much difference, except in RAM usage. But it's also nearly impossible to disable some AVs without all the bother of going into msconfig, McAfee for one just won't let you which is one reason why (apart from the fact that it overloaded my CPU and caused my fan to break - at least, I think it was that which caused it - and my hard disks both got fried) I got rid of it and now use the free version of Avast and save myself 50 quid per annum! And apart from the annoyance when Avast updates, it sits very quietly in the background and causes no problems, and uses about half the RAM that McAfee uses, doesn't insidiously invade a lot of Windows stuff and is very easy to uninstall if necessary - McAfee is almost impossible to eradicate completely without hours and hours of searching.
notveryawesome:
Yep. Both McAfee and Norton are Teh Evilz. You have my condolences.
ZephyrZodiac:
I won't use them any more - Avast! is to my mind a far superior product - and it's free for home use. Luckily McAfee refunded the money they'd just taken from my account when I phoned them up to complain about the program.
jolrei:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2007 September 06, 17:23:43
I won't use them any more - Avast! is to my mind a far superior product - and it's free for home use. Luckily McAfee refunded the money they'd just taken from my account when I phoned them up to complain about the program.
Running Norton myself, which would be OK, but it uses a lot of system resources and is apparently hell to get rid of, once you have it installed. I always play with the computer offline and with as much of norton disabled as possible. I think I'll check out Avast.
Lorelei:
If anyone wishes to rid themselves of Norton in favour of AVast (or whatever), I have a NortWare zorcher at 4shared. See sig.
Geek Squad decided (without asking first) that I had to have Norton on my laptop. I was displeased. This removed it.
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