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02-03-2008

Dear Turner,

Just you wait.................
Let OneCare update itself and you'll tear your hair out.
Get rid of it now!

AMcF

"Turner Morgan" <tfmorgan@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Richard,
>
> Please forgive the late response.
>
> On other computers I had been using Norton. Going back a bit, to the days
> of DOS and Win3.1, Norton had a good product. Then Symantec got their
> hands on it and it has been going to pot in a hurry! Talk about a system
> hog! Lateley, Symantec seems to have been listening to some of the
> complaints because Norton 360 is not in your face as much as System Works
> but it still hurts system performance.
>
> The other thing is not even Symantec can *completely* remove System Works!
> I tried, first using the Windows Add Remove Programs utility and thinking
> that was it. Wrong! I kept getting dialogs popping up saying the
> Symantec Updater was trying to run but could not find file whatever (I
> can't remember the specifics of the filename). I went to the Symantec web
> presence and discovered the Symantec Removal Tool to get rid of the dregs
> the Add Remove utility had left behind. Even that didn't completly
> cleanse the system. The upshot of all this is, I had to save all my data
> and reformat the HD to FINALLY get rid of all the detritus left over from
> Symantec!
>
> This computer, a homebrew job, will not see Symantec at all. If
> necessary, I shall depend upon the firewall built into the mainboard and
> the one in the router. Right now, I'm using Live OneCare. So far, there
> does not seem to be such a huge performance hit as there was with
> Symantec. However, the firewall blocker gets a bit annoying when you
> first install a new program because, of course, the first thing a new
> program wants to do is "call home" to see if there are any updates and the
> firewall detects this (a good thing, I suppose).
>
> The other pieces of OneCare seem to work OK. Of course, when the
> defragger is running, you are going to see some slow down, but that goes
> away when the defragger finishes (the time required depends upon the size
> of your HD(s) and how much data you have).
>
> Am I satisfied with OneCare? The jury is still out. I can't really
> answer that because I have not been using it long enough.
>
> Regards,
>
> Turner
>
>
> "Richard Thompson" <richard@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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	>> Ok, i've always believed that if something seems too good to be true it >> generally is too good to be true. >> >> After reading about OneCare and trying out the free online web scanner I >> was pleasantly surprised. I would like to know, from the people out there >> running Vista with scores of below 4 on their performance rating system, >> what OneCare does to their systems? >> >> Traditionally antivirus has had a major affect on system performance >> especially when combined with spyware detection, adware detection, >> firewall, etc. Now that said obviously Microsoft know how their OS works >> and would have developed something which is good for their OS, but I want >> to know what the community says AND is it really worth the 38 quid the >> vendors want for it? >> >> Kind regards >> Richard >>

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