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To: mr.mark who wrote (27261)	5/29/2002 12:13:34 PM
From: Rick Faurot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110655

I put AVG on my backup machine, a P2 450 on W98 and AVG seemed to work for three days and then it caused a glitch that stopped the boot process. I could not shut down AVG as I wasn't booted. After five force quits and a bunch of error messages and blue screens I finally got a completed boot. First thing I did was delete AVG. Once I did, booting operated normally. Could have been a clash with McAffee which was also on this machine. Didn't stick around to find out. best Rick

To: mr.mark who wrote (27261)	5/29/2002 12:52:17 PM
From: shadowman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110655

i'm just trying to get a rise out of some of the loyal AVG believers on the thread. <G3> Is it Spiderman??? No! it's Symantecman!!...LOL! Being a cheapskate I have a natural affinity to free. I've never used symantec's products even though the Dell that I bought a couple of months ago had norton AV with a free 30-60?? day trial. Most of what I've read about Norton AV has been good. They seem to have the heaviest industry support amongst geeks. I've also read about bloat and that some of norton's products are a little buggy. Just this past week I've emailed AVG's website to 4 friends...all of whom have apparently been klez bitten. They've downloaded and run the AVG software and it seems to have cleared up their problems? I also sent a couple of them the norton (symantec) klez.h virus fix site. Two of them have run it in addition (after) to the avg scan and the norton fix indicates that no virus is present. Not trying to cheer lead one product or the other...just pointing out my experiences. If I had to guess I'd say that the Norton AV software is probably a more comprehensive and effective product overall. They certainly update definitions more often. On the other hand I've always thought that ontrack's utility suite was a better product than norton's utility suite....cost less too...and most of the reviews that I've read online the past couple of years indicate that OT's utility suite is as good or better than nortons. Whether either solves more problems than they create...??? I've never been a big anti-virus software fan. I share some of the common concerns about its validity...the klez virus has moved me over the the "why not?" camp.<g>