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Innuendo:
Thanks for the suggestion about Agnitum.  I'm still running Sygate, and while I think it still works pretty well, I wouldn't at all mind having a program that's being kept up.  I may give Agnitum a try.-cyberdiva (August 08, 2009, 02:31 PM)
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If you are wanting 'just a firewall' it'd be a good fit as all the premium features you expressed an interest in definitely not having are reserved for their commercial Outpost Pro product. It should be a good fit for you.

I remember when Sygate was among the best of the best. It was hard to beat by any measure. However, Symantec has a long history of buying great companies who published great products and then churning out some half-baked solution using a parody solution of the once great technology.

Yes, I see your point.  However, as EmoDiva, I exaggerate,  and I write first, think later  >:D

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I can't wait to see the new EmoDiva avatar!  ;D

mwb1100:
However, Symantec has a long history of buying great companies who published great products and then churning out some half-baked solution using a parody solution of the once great technology.
-Innuendo (August 09, 2009, 10:42 AM)
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This seems like a problem for almost any acquisition made by a large software company.  It would be nice if an acquisition like this happened and the parent company just said to the original developers, "Here's a somewhat bigger budget - do more of what you've been doing".  But it seems like the bigger guys always think they can do it better.

Innuendo:
But it seems like the bigger guys always think they can do it better.-mwb1100 (August 09, 2009, 05:44 PM)
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However, Symantec doesn't even try to do it better. They have the anti-Midas touch. That means they can turn gold into crap. Take, for example, the program ATGuard. It was a great firewall with neat stuff like ad-blocking, cookie management, and such built in.

Well, one day Symantec bought the rights to it & rather than keep it in its lean form with optimized performance and speed they rolled the technology into their bloated security suite and if that wasn't bad enough, they installed a ruleset for the firewall to let through all traffic (including ads, coolies, etc.) from all of their advertising partners! There was no way to delete these rules or even see that the rules existed from within the program. One had to trudge through the directory structure and root out the ruleset files manually....provided a person even knew they existed.

Despicable company, IMHO.

app103:
Oh, no. I was replying to April & didn't think quoting was necessary because I was posting right below her. She got rid of a PaintShop Pro plugin, a game, a program included with one of Mouser's program, and upgraded another program all in the name of keeping McAfee happy. I don't think I would have been so understanding of McAfee's inability to play nice with others.
-Innuendo (August 07, 2009, 08:56 AM)
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Some corrections:

I got rid of McAfee about 6 years ago when I traced some odd system instability issues to it. I haven't used it since. I once thought my WinME totally sucked because it would either lock up or BSOD about every four hours. After getting rid of McAfee, I could keep it running (and running quite well I must add) for at least a week, and up to about 2 months without any issues.

Right after ditching it, I took the advice of someone I respected and installed AVG, which I continued to use on all of my PC's up until recently.

I ditched AVG after an issue with my daughter's laptop and some nasty malware it failed to detect. I didn't feel like I could trust it any more. I would rather false positives than false negatives.

My current AV is Avast. I am sure there has to be some way of getting it to behave and honor the exceptions list but I can't seem to figure it out.

The photoshop plugin was not a loss, wasn't used very much over the years, in fact I can't remember using it at all within the last 5.

The software I upgraded should have been upgraded any way, because that is just the smart thing to do. Only reason why I never did was related to a money issue. That version had some issues with triggering false positives in a few different AV's and not just Avast. I knew this and when it started happening in AVG I chose to just add to exceptions list and go on with my life. When it happened in Avast too, I contemplated upgrading, and the fact I couldn't figure out how the ignore list works in Avast, just drove me to finally do it. It's not something I regret. Newer version works much better than the old...less buggy. I really don't mind the extra rice & beans I had to eat to pay for it.

nircmd was not something I wanted or needed in LBC to begin with, and removing it was no loss to me. In fact, I have recommended that mouser offer it as a separate download in order to avoid issues like this, and warn users that it could trigger an AV alert. This extra tool should be optional and not included by default.

And as far as the game goes, I didn't get rid of it. I happen to like it too much and don't plan on getting rid of it until I at least beat all the levels.  The graphics are awesome and the game boards are a blast. It makes me laugh. I love doing things like destroying train tracks and sending cows flying into the sky. It's one of the better breakout style games I have played. :D

McAfee again. Don't ask.

superboyac:
McAfee is terrible.  It wasn't able to catch a really bad malware/virus called "Advanced Virus Removal".  This is the enterprise edition of mcAfee.  horrible antivirus solution.  It really did a number on my computer.  I'll continue using Kaspersky when i have the choice.  For me, the choice is between kaspersky and NOD32, and I use kaspersky because it's cheaper for me and i think it's more configurable than NOD32.  Although, a lot of people claim that NOD32 is lighter on resources and overall very efficient.

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