"A review of a service pack? What's next, A screenshot of RTPatch? I can see it now...
"Here we see the patch process at 37% complete. Note that the progress bar is roughly one third filled in with a nice blue color."
Please!!"
I laughed at this post until I RTFA. The article was nice and informative. It let me know a pop-up blocker was on the way (I was SO going to get Earthlink:), it let me know Outlook will be better in keeping viruses in check, and finally a firewall that will help keep viruses and spyw
It let me know a pop-up blocker was on the way (I was SO going to get Earthlink:), it let me know Outlook will be better in keeping viruses in check, and finally a firewall that will help keep viruses and spyware from running on my computer.
If the free anti-virus you're using is AVG [grisoft.com], you're asking for trouble.
I don't know, maybe Grisoft's retail version may be good, but about a year ago I downloaded about a dozen viruses just to see how well the free AVG Antivirus version, McAfee, & Norton detect them. Although far from an exaustive test, AVG missed about a third of the viruses, but Mcafee & Norton caught every one.
Free is good, but sometimes you do get what you pay for.
Working for an ISP, I've had the exact opposite experience: AVG would pick up the viruses that the Big Two missed.
In fact, I've so far not found an instance where one slipped by an up to date installation of AVG. The caveat is that it isn't so good at deleting files which need permission changes, nor is it very good at neutering the viruses it's unable to delete.
It's what we recommend to our customers. Then again, we can't recommend anything commercial to our customers, because they'll never install something they have to pay for, no matter how necessary.
A review of a service pack (Score:5, Funny)
A review of a service pack? What's next, A screenshot of RTPatch? I can see it now...
"Here we see the patch process at 37% complete. Note that the progress bar is roughly one third filled in with a nice blue color."
Please!!
Re:A review of a service pack (Score:5, Insightful)
"Here we see the patch process at 37% complete. Note that the progress bar is roughly one third filled in with a nice blue color."
Please!!"
I laughed at this post until I RTFA.
The article was nice and informative. It let me know a pop-up blocker was on the way (I was SO going to get Earthlink
Re:A review of a service pack (Score:5, Informative)
Cause you had no browsers with native pop-up blocking, [mozilla.org],No virus-free mail clients, [mozilla.org], and no free anti-virus [grisoft.com] for XP before now
please...
Re:A review of a service pack (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't know, maybe Grisoft's retail version may be good, but about a year ago I downloaded about a dozen viruses just to see how well the free AVG Antivirus version, McAfee, & Norton detect them. Although far from an exaustive test, AVG missed about a third of the viruses, but Mcafee & Norton caught every one.
Free is good, but sometimes you do get what you pay for.
Re:A review of a service pack (Score:4, Interesting)
In fact, I've so far not found an instance where one slipped by an up to date installation of AVG. The caveat is that it isn't so good at deleting files which need permission changes, nor is it very good at neutering the viruses it's unable to delete.
It's what we recommend to our customers. Then again, we can't recommend anything commercial to our customers, because they'll never install something they have to pay for, no matter how necessary.