Re: AVG says I have a virus, now what
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Norton's is toilet paper and tough to impossible to uninstall
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You can say that again. I had a hell of a time uninstalling Norton. Had to use a registry cleaner (regsupreme - a good one) to get rid of all the files it spewed everywhere. I switched to NOD32 and never had a problem with it, and it uninstalls easily and completely.
But now I have a new computer and want to go with something free, both on principle, and because the best software usually is free if you just know what to look for. (think firefox, and other mozilla products like filezilla and thunderbird, the GIMP or irfanview for photos, openoffice, etc.) The pay stuff is mostly overbloated and poorly written. The shop that made my computer installed AVG, but I'll probably go with Avast. If you do want to pay, I can recommend NOD32. It's cheaper and much better than Norton. I'm not sure, though, that I'd enable the new "phone home" function they include with it now.
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