[OU] AV programs & Opera

[Todd Strattman]

Instead of spending $1500 on a mac, or wasting time and/or money on AV  
products, just try out linux.

For free.

You can just burn a cd of it and try it out. You don't have to install  
anything to try it out. If you don't like it then you are just out a cd.  
If you like it, you can have it for free. And there are less viruses out  
there for it then MS or Mac.

Here's an easy to use linux distro:
http://www.ubuntu.com/

Here's the download for the "live" cd:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

And here's the great support forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/

Regards,
Todd


On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:04:36 -0400, Joel Kellner <jerseyjoel at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> 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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