[OU] AV programs & Opera

[Joel Kellner]

At the risk of sounding like a paid spokeman, rid yourself of the misery
you're in...get a Mac.

I did so two years ago, having taken my then-Windows Millennium Edition
computer into my backyard because of the same problems that now confront you
and shot it with a borrowed elephant gun...metaphorically.

I promise you: you'll never look back; you'll thank me.
All the best, all the time,
Joel Kellner
"A designated driver on the information superhighway"


On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 7:52 PM, 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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