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To: Gottfried who wrote (27276)	5/29/2002 1:25:43 PM
From: Sultan	Respond to of 110655

I have AVG on my primitive win95 machine.. Since I am on cable, it is on all the time (with zonelab free firewall) and although I have turned off regular scan, as far as downloading new updates etc. it works without a hitch.. Does it catch all the viruses ? Have no clue since this is the only checker I have but I do get lots of mail with lots of attachments and I do surf and am not that discriminating.. So far AVG has warned only once when I was viewing some site, caught and cleaned a virus from a page that was downloaded.. FWIW..

To: Gottfried who wrote (27276)	5/30/2002 5:16:46 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 110655

"Then there's the question of who pays whom?" i had to get back to you on this point. one might ask that of symantec and pcmag, given that the mag has chosen nav for their editor's choice award for like six years or something. but if you then proceed to read pcmag's generally negative review of norton systemworks in the utility suite section ( pcmag.com ), you'll probably agree that no money changed hands anywhere. even if we were to look at something like advertising dollars as the method of payment, the negative reviews tend to go against such an arrangement. to be clear, i don't think that pcmag gets paid to hand out good reviews. :)