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Note for Norton AV Owners

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Beerbreath:
Avast! 4 http://www.avast.com/ is the best freeware antivirus according to the VB100 ratings (Win XP June 2002) and my personal experience. This newer freeware version offers automatic updates, e-mail scanning, easy gui and takes less resources than others I've tried. You can even select boot time scan and of course on demand by right clicking a file or folder.  I've yet to see a freeware AV prog with this kind of depth.

The main reason installation fails or systems freeze when using new AV programs is the inablility of the old ones to uninstall properly. I have had to dig up removal tools for Norton before anything would operate properly. http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/8d071816eedd7cac88256c0e005a96e5/33497f6e8a319ece88256ace0076cc02?OpenDocument   Kaspersky, McAfee and even Grisoft (e-mail plug-in) have their own unique uninstall issues as well. For those of us that are unconfortable walking through windows registry and deleating the many left behind entries, there is some good registry cleaners available to aid in complete removal of these.

Reg Cleaner is a good free one. http://www.vtoy.fi/jv16/shtml/regcleaner.shtml

As with all registry adjustments - BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP! just in case.

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