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July 9th, 2007, 04:03 AM
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Re: OT: Virus protect pro
Why do you need another one? How many do you use regularly?
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July 12th, 2007, 12:16 AM
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Re: OT: Virus protect pro
adware, spybot, norton (which is a real pain)
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July 12th, 2007, 01:17 AM
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Re: OT: Virus protect pro
With adaware and spybot, you are already covered for spyware/adware. Nortons not that great against virus/trojan stuff, but it works.
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July 12th, 2007, 01:40 AM
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Re: OT: Virus protect pro
norton is bloatware.
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html
there you will find some good solid tools for securing and optimizing windows.
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July 12th, 2007, 03:52 AM
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Re: OT: Virus protect pro
Dead wrong on all things browser related, really. Well, other than Opera being fast.
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July 12th, 2007, 06:52 AM
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Re: OT: Virus protect pro
He's right about Opera not being compatible with some webpages, and Firefox being slow. I normally use Opera, but recently had to install Firefox to get into a site that neither IE or Opera could load properly.
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July 12th, 2007, 01:57 PM
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Re: OT: Virus protect pro
The 10-15% incompatibility is way off, though (unless he is counting every single minor display variation resulting from IE's backwards implementation of parts of the DOM box model). Its not really Mozilla's or Opera's fault that there are still people out there that only design sites for IE bug sets and not standards. They try to accommodate the bugs and poor implementations for compatibility, but its a huge challenge. Luckily IE is slowly moving more towards standards compliance now. IE7 was a baby step; let's hope IE8 can pass the acid2 tests. 
FF seems just as "fast" as IE to me on the machines I've run it on. Opera tends to be snappier, but he was comparing the speed to IE mostly. I'm not sure how many people actually believe FF is faster than Opera... just more "common myths" this guy has concocted for a longer article. Sure there are idiotic fanboys, but most people aren't at that level. |
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