atw: Re: PC protection




I'm about to change ISP (from TPG to WestNet). I'm going to try their spam-
and virus-protection service, which adds up to $30/year. My reasoning is
that I've never lost work time to a virus, but I've lost a huge amount of
time over the years to anti-virus software--installing it, downloading
updates, running it, recovering from buggy upgrades. Why not let the ISP
handle it?

I have been using TPG's server-based junk mail filter, and it suits me
pretty well:
- I get an e-mail when the number of messages goes over my threshold
- I check the list of mail headers on the server
- Typically, I go Select All > Delete

For the first few months I'd see the occasional legitimate message (mostly
newsletters), so I'd add a rule to allow it through in future. Now the
number of these is vanishingly small.

Has anyone else gone this route?

---
Stuart Burnfield
Information Developer
Australian Programming Centre

> I've been running Norton Anti-Virus for many years, updating regularly,
> and last weekend I bought Norton Anti-Spam.  It seemed like sense to
> keep all the protection in one family.
>
> Norton Anti-Virus has always been slow, and it uses heaps of resources.
>  Anti-Spam seems worse and doesn't support SSL, so it's no use to me.
> It was on my PC for less than 24 hours.
>
> I've decided to replace the whole suite.
> Does anyone have recommendations?

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