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Old 16-06-2005, 15:22   #4
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Re: norton renewel

Windows XP SP2 has a firewall, why not just use that. Might not be quite a sophisticated as Norton, but it will probably be adequate. I'd save the money too and just have the freebie antivirus of AVG (Grisoft) or similar.

These days I'd only pay for added protection for the business network which at times can take quite a hammering, and whcih it's difficult preventing users doing something silly.

If your home PC is kept reasonably current with patches, the free AV is up to date (AVG updates itself quite nicely) and you take sensible precuations, like not opening attachments on emails that you wern't expecting, you don't need the sophisticated Norton Systems.
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