NO expert here, either, but I recommend getting entirely rid of 360 and go with AVG. AVG paid ver on the desk machine and the freebie on the lappy. I also have Spybot and SpywareBeGone on both. The wireless modem does the firewall thing for me. I got rid of Norton 5 years ago, and never missed the interuptions it caused. Next upgrade, I think dual boot will be on the menu until I understand linux.
Not sure. Never used it. With Norton stuff, you can right click on the little icon and turn it off. Or open 360 up and see if there is a way to disable it. hmmm. http://www.webuser.co.uk/forums/showflat.php?Number=364287
360 bites. Downloaded AVG anti-virus and anti-spyware free versions for a test run. The anti-spyware picked up on a bunch of tracking cookies that 360 had missed. Going to get the paid version of AVG now and throw the Norton BS in the trash.
My one windows system, Vista BlechK. Runs free AVG. After Norton got to be a worm like entity all its own, I kicked it out and AVG is fine. I don't see the benefit of paying for the premium AVG at all. Then again, I don't pay for any software anymore. It takes some getting used to when you have the mindset that more is more. linux
you all should also check out a free program called ccleaner (stands for crap cleaner) it clears out bad registry and temp files that build up. linux is the best option but i use some programs that do not like wine. i have been to lazy/busy to setup the vmware image
I've never used wine. Ubuntu and Mint have vmware server for free in the repositories. Click and install. Setup is as easy as loading XP or Vista on a bare system. It really works well. Funny that the only thing I use vmware/XP for is to use XPpowertoy Image resizer. It lets you batch right click resize images for the web. You can resize with the gimp but the powertoy is faster. I had tried vmware a few yrs ago. I paid for it and could never get it to run right under Mandrake. The new stuff is very easy to use.
