[OU] AV programs & Opera

[Rodger A Headifen]

A University person was known to say on his door, "In a world without  
fences who needs gates!"

I believe this person is using Linux, very interesting software.

I'm testing version 9.04 Ubuntu (updated from 7.04) on an old PIII 550mg  
Dual boot with Wins 2000Pro, its good fun, without the problems of Micro.

On Fri, 01 May 2009 12:04:36 +1200, 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
>>
>> --
>> Unsubscribe: mailto:opera-users-request at opera.com?subject=unsubscribe
>>



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