[SOC] RE: Symantec arrogance / OT ?

[Kevin Rock]

Please look up www.grisoft.com

AVG is FREE!!  Works much better than Norton or McAffee.  Great product.  
And it's FREE!!  I think I already said that :)

Updates are scheduled and the scanning is scheduled also.  And it's 
FREE!!!

73,

CW is awesome!

Kevin.   KD5ONS




On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 13:00:48 -0500, Steve W0OOW <w0oow at piperscreek.com> 
wrote:

> Symantec arrogant - naw! :)
>
> I have been trying to renew my son's viruschecker with that company and 
> have
> found out that the front line personnel don't seem to know anything 
> (typical
> these days).  A summary consists of "go to the Symantec store".  A lot of
> good that does.  I still can't renew his definitions.  The option to buy 
> is
> out there, but not the price etc.  About the only thing I can figure is 
> that
> his virus checker has reached its life cycle and is not renewable.
>
> I have Win98 (not 2nd ed) here and the email scan with Symantec's Norton
> Antivirus 2003 will not work.  (fortunatly the virus checker still works 
> on
> a write etc and catches them all)  Symantec "thinks" that it is because 
> my
> windows system is an upgrade from 95.  Their recommendation either -- 
> shut
> off the email checking portion (that is why I upgraded) or upgrade to a
> different op system.  Let's see a 300MHz Celeron with 48 M of RAM with 
> what?
> WinXP - not.  New computer at $$$$?
>
> I think that Symantec cares IF you and about 10,000 others have the same
> problem.  gggrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
>
> 73,
> Steve
> CW - It's still magic !
>
>
>
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