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Re: [LUG] OT: McAfee

 

If you're going for firefox, theres a good extension called noscript
which I swear by.  Basically stops scripts running unless you allow
them.  Bit like a firewall for web browsing, in a sense.

On 06/09/2007, Simon Avery <flash@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Simon Williams wrote:
>
> > McAfee? *shiver*. Don't. It's horrible. It's the buggiest, slowest, most
> > bloated, self-inflating piece of "software" I have ever had the
> > misfortune to use.
>
> Steer clear of Norton then, it's even worse.
>
> > For your antivirus- get avast (also called AVG),
>
> No.
>
> Avast is Avast (www.avast.com)
> AVG is AVG (free.grisoft.com)
>
> You don't need to register for AVG. I use it with reasonable success on
> several windows machines, and clamav with sanesecurities sigs on the
> email gateway (with sa-exim, exim4, procmail, spamasassin and fuzzyocr)
> which keeps out pretty much all non user-requested viruses and the
> majority of the spam (including the pdf stuff).
>
> Switching your Win users away from Outlook and IE onto Thunderbird and
> Firefox *significantly* reduces the chances of infection too. IME they
> really don't notice anyway.
>
>
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