| SmartScan is designed to scour for viruses hidden in file extensions, as well as in executable and document files.
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| Free Anti-Virus Software: Antidote SuperLite On-demand virus checker. Detects, doesn't clean. Huge virus database (excellent back-up scanner). AntiVir® Personal Edition AVG Anti-Virus F-Prot Antivirus The MS-DOS version is free McAfee Stinger On-demand scanner. Detects & cleans a small number of virii/trojans (around 50). Fits on a 3.5" floppy. |
When I tired of Norton's glitches I changed to AVG and have never been happier. It's completely automatic and updates virtually every day.
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I gave up on all Symantec Norton products years ago because they are such resource hogs. I switched to Trend Micro's PC-Cillin and couldn't be happier. It updates its virus definitions every hour, quietly in the background.
Avast is also free and I've found it better than AVG.
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I think when my subscription runs out on Norton, I'll try the other scanners too and see how they do. Bookmark Bump!
1. Screwed me out of about 9 months of updates for which I paid.
2. Screwed me out of a mail-in rebate.
3. Gave me no end of trouble with a certain email-borne virus. For some reason, they could not detect it until the email that carried it was added to the inbox file. Once that happened, they locked up the whole file and couldn't fix it, so all I could do was delete the file. Then my entire inbox was gone. Their support people were unable or unwilling to do anything about it.
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| SmartScan is designed to scour for viruses hidden in file extensions, as well as in executable and document files.
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Symantec (Norton) = BLOATWARE...
AVG is very good and I recommend it to students in the classes I teach. I personally prefer McAfee, but that's me. Symantic is crapware.
Does anyone have a clue what this means, or is this just another Dumb Journalist Alert?