[OU] AV programs & Opera

[Raleigh Burns]

I suggest you go to CNET'S  download.com site and do a search for anti-virus, etc.
reviews. These have been very helpful for me. Left side of the opened window
provides ways to tailor your search, such as "free" , operating system, etc

This site may reduce the confusion possible from trying to take all our personal
preferences in response to your problem.

(AVG free version has missed malware detected by some other scanners I have
used. Therefore, consider loading and running more than one scanner and increase your
coverage.)

Raleigh 



--- On Thu, 4/30/09, Sogn Mill-Scout <ss91 at q.com> wrote:
From: Sogn Mill-Scout <ss91 at q.com>
Subject: [OU] AV programs & Opera
To: opera-users at opera.com
Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009, 7:52 PM

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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