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Happy Personal Firewall Day!

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Kintaro:
WMD, you have never tried Norton have you.

I swear that norton guy has as doing Seti Workunits for his own cluter for bragging rights or somthing.

Exsencon:
Norton Antivirus and Norton Utilities and so on definitely slows your machine down. Just run it with and without and you'll see

WMD:

quote:Originally posted by X11: doogee.is.dreaming.org:
WMD, you have never tried Norton have you.
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My dad has Norton Antivirus, and it doesn't seem to hog resources.  However today, it DID force a reboot on me.  :mad:

PseudoRandomDragon:
Believe me, I wish I didn't have to run a firewall too, nor do I wish having to make a white list of sites that are allowed to use Java/JS in my browser. However, it is something that must be accepted no matter what OS you are using.

solarflare:

quote:Originally posted by xeen:
Tomorrow is the new Personal Firewall Day, according to Microsoft. MS and another company are declaring tomorrow, 1/15, Personal Firewall Day. They will unveil a new website and focus on educating users about using Firewall software and antivirus software.

 

I can answer that last question. Why do we need to use firewalls and anti-virus software? Simple! Because we want them to hog our CPUs and resources, making PCs slower, so that we'd eventually get sick of it and go buy a new faster PC.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1212&e=6&u=/pcworld/20040114/tc_pcworld/114318&sid=95612658

[ January 14, 2004: Message edited by: xeen ]
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Mac OS X Panther has built in firewall into the operating system - so you don't need to buy Norton Firewall or whatever!

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