[OU] AV programs & Opera

[Webgenie]

I would never use either Norton or McAfee.  In fact, the first thing I do  
with a new computer is to uninstall Norton.  There are online instructions  
for doing this, as it is common to want to do it.  I used AVG for years,  
but didn't like their upgrade about a year ago, and switched to  
Avira/AntiVir.  I've also heard of ESET, but have not tried it.  AVG was  
just fine until that major upgrade, and Avira is suiting us fine now.   
Both are award-winning programs, if that means something to you.  Avira is  
very highly and positively reviewed.  If I somehow became dissatisfied, I  
would try ESET.

Webgenie

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:52:41 -0700, Sogn Mill-Scout <ss91 at q.com> wrote:

> First I express my thanks to Raleigh Burns,  John Lewis, and James Card  
> for their suggestions regarding my terrible problems with Opera's  
> crashes and general disaster. Right after I posted about the problem,  
> things got a lot worse, in general, not just with Opera. It turns out we  
> were infected with malware. Why it particularly disliked Opera, I don't  
> know. It took many hours of excruciating tech "support" on the phone  
> with Dell to (apparently) resolve the problem.
>
> We have Norton, and until recently had McAfee. We are not satisfied with  
> Norton, especially after the way we were treated by their "support"  
> people. We're thinking of returning to McAfee,but have some  
> reservations. Among other considerations (installation  
> problems/complexity and cost of tech "support" for example), we are  
> wondering about Opera vis-a-vis anti-virus software. Opera has been  
> running fine since the Dell people seemingly cleaned up the malware last  
> Sat. - something the Norton people had been unable to do a week earlier  
> when they finally got 360 v. 2 working. It detected nothing, then things  
> deteriorated. We wanted v.3 but were told it wouldn't run on this  
> computer and we'd have to settle for v.2. We feel like we're getting  
> screwed every which way and are paranoid about (a) being protected by  
> the currently running N360v.2 and (b) switching to another AV program.
>
> All this tedious blah-blah by way of asking if there's any consensus  
> among Opera users as to the best AV programs. The concern about Opera in  
> particular is because both Norton and McAfee seem to discriminate  
> against Opera. They both install toolbars in both IE and Firefox, but  
> there is no indication of their presence or protection in Opera. This  
> makes us nervous because we prefer Opera (although we use IE for a few  
> things). Opinions are appreciated. We're inclined to ditch Norton and  
> are torn between McAfee and AVG.
>
> BTW, we're running XP Media Center Edition, version 2002, SP2.
>
> Sogn
>
> Sogn Mill-Scout
> Corvallis, OR
> ss91 at q.com
>



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