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Richie-from-the-Boro

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Old fella no disrespect , remove foot from mouth or prove it, like this guy is trying to with experience as displayed here .
Too much has been said about paid for vs free A/V it is all about personal choice / recommendation(informed rather than anti paid for or quote(bloated etc etc)) following either informed or bigoted opinion,
At the end of the day the choice is theirs , following independent hopefully, from this forum, advice. I use Norton (carp by your opinion and others, but the jury still out until we get the result of bob's test, see post mentioned above) but my choice for, other reasons than personal choice, others use Avast/MSE/Avira et alia., and I have tried MSE and Avast/AVG. Yes some are worse/better than others in personal opinions, at the end of the day paid for/free are all the same if the user is naive enough to to let sites he does not trust on to his PC or Welcome mat.

OK end of my rant, people on this forum help others, and you are no different, but I feel you are very anti paid for A/V esp Norton/McAfee (IMO ...i know i said "I feel") Sorry if this offends but i am opinionated(not hard at my age ) It is a fantastic forum we troll though hoping to help those younger or less experienced(seems a better simile:p) than us. I hope I not am offending you, that is not my intention :sad:

Yeh !, I seen Bobs post, and no offence taken my friend, I have an opinion and I gave it, and I will certainly do so again.

Am I anti-paid for ?, your correct my friend, I am.

The difference between paid and unpaid is measured only by the amount of ' wonker ' out for protection in. Money spent on AV does not buy people better protection, it's a placebo not a real world improvement.

Now returning to Bob's experiment, and your " put up or shut up comment ", I think it's self evident to anyone reading my post that I have ' put up ' my evidence, it's not empirical, but it isn't emotional either.

A vacum cleaner repair man said to me in the very early 60's thank god for hairy dogs and pets, they pay for my big house ! , I'm well retired now by nearly a decade but I say thank god for AV programmes they pay for my ... ..... also

I've built sold and repaired an average of 40 machines a week over the period since retirement, I've trialled [ read my post properly ] AV progs for years, and dozens of other beta testing programmes for the industry. I've done what Bob intends to do hundreds of times over the years with, different simultaneous conflicting software / operating systems and combinations thereof.

90% of the repair machines machines in any one month are soft not hardware related. 90% of the money I make is from people with the very unhappy combination of ' I have not backed up ' and ' please don't do a clean install' I'll pay to have you spend hours cleaning it up.

I see and deal with more different AV progs in a week than most people even know exist and judging by the evidence I see there is no difference between free & paid

As I said - no offence taken my friend !

debitcardmayhem

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

judging by the evidence I see there is no difference between free & paid

As I said - no offence taken my friend !

Yeah there is its called MSE forums :rotfl: Glad we are still buddies :beer:

Richie-from-the-Boro

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Yeah there is its called MSE forums :rotfl: Glad we are still buddies :beer:

No problem debitcardmayhem, I too, always happy to share both friendship and beer ! :beer:

mamazaac

I have recently used the norton removal tool to remove symantec.

However, now whenever I right click anything in my program menu and select properties, or even just right click on my computer without selecting properties from the start menu, I get an windows installer message come up which says

"The feature you are trying to use is on a CD-ROM or other removable disk that is not available. Insert the 'Symantec Antivirus' disk and click ok".

If I cancel out of it, the right click menu I am trying to access comes up, but it is very annoying having to do this all the time. Is there a way to stop this please?

Many thanks for any help