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I am here to disagree with Tim, Seems he doesnt actually know how to work on any O.S. at all. If his friend with the machine that was Possessed so to speak would have updated his antivirus he wouldnt have been in that situation. I have been a system tech since 1990 and I have no problems with the uninstall of any antivirus program including norton. AVG has let at least 40 viruses slip through on many machines that I have had to repair. I do agree with the fact that Norton uses more resources than some other AV programs. I tend to lean toward Panda but for most users Norton is a safer and more reliable for the average user. So if you are a novice user, Norton with its auto live update feature, is a safer chioce than AVG.

Unless your machine is hosed from the start or you are using Windows ME then I recommend using Norton for the ease of use it provides. I have never had to start a machine in safe mode after an uninstall of Norton AV unless you remove the shared Windows files that Norton uses to monitor the system. Only then does the machine have an issue. If you are running a Win9x based machine then there is a toll that comes on the Norton CD to clean up the registry after the uninstall. If Tim were and actual Tech he would know about SymClean and would have used it.

John Ferrini

A+, Network+, MCP 2000/XP, MCSE NT/2000/2003, Novell CNA & CNE 4x, 5x, 6x, CCNA, CCNP

Added: August 27th 2004

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