anti-virus

Last week I had need to go to our local library and was waiting while my grandson was picking up some books that he needed for school. I wanted to kill some time by getting on the Internet and checking out my blog site and also start to do another blog article. But as we [...]

Back on August 1st, 2008, I wrote a review of Norton’s newest Anti-Virus program coming at us for the 2009 computing season. [See review here.] I tried the beta version and found that it was in fact faster and less intrusive than previous versions. I also stated that I would recommend the product and asked [...]

First let me say that I have not personally used any Symantec products since late 2003. But I have seen previous versions of Symantec products such as Norton anti-virus or Norton Internet Security products and have been less than impressed. In fact I have advised clients to uninstall trial ware of Norton on new systems, [...]

I received the following comment from Noah Edwardsen of Symantec about their new beta software:
Hi Ron,
The 2009 Norton Antivirus and Norton Internet Security betas are live and ready!
http://www.symantec.com/norton-beta/
I’ll send you a link to the press release as soon as it hits the wire and would love to answer any questions you might have.
Feel free to [...]

Each year I use the months of March and September as friendly reminders to myself of some of the chores that need to be done on items that require maintenance. I get the car serviced, change the batteries in the smoke detectors, and also do a semi annual cleaning of my computer systems.
So when I [...]

I had a client ask me an interesting question yesterday afternoon, in that they wanted to know if there was a safe way to test their anti-virus program. The eicar test virus has been around for many years and is a simple way to confirm that your AV program is in fact working. On the [...]