On Jun 12, 3:47*am, wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:21:29 -0700 (PDT), timOleary

wrote:
I'm responding to the topic, not a particular poster. No offense
intended.

Your ISP must not have much faith in their services if they want you
to run all that crap. *It's really THEM who is supposed to be running
antivirus software to protect everyone. *It looks like you use
Verizon. *I'll be sure to never use them.

When I signed up for my ISP they sent me a CD filled with garbage,
toolbars, and their own homepage. *I dont want any of that ****. *I
just want a connection to the net and nothing more. *They also sent me
a copy of Norton AV, and told me I had a 30 day free trial, and after
that I'd be charged $10 a month to use it. *Yea Right..... *I can buy
it for about $40 at Walmart and never pay again. *What a ****ing
ripoff. *I called them the next day and told them to either cancel the
Norton AV, or cancel my service completely. *They tried real hard to
convince me how badly I needed it. *Thats when I asked them if their
whole system is full of viruses. *That shut them up, and they
cancelled it. *I told them I would require an email to prove it was
cancelled, which they did send me. *That way if they tried to charge
me for it, I have proof I cancelled it. *

You only need ONE AV software, I am not going to recommend one because
I am currently using Win98. *My XP computer has one that you can get
from Microsoft for free. *(I cant recall the name of it). *It was
installed when I bought the computer. *I disabled it, but did not
uninstall it. *I dont need it, because I do not connect the XP
computer to the internet at all, but once an awhile I will scan
downloaded stuff with it. *I only use the Win98 puter online. *I have
no AV software at all on the Win98 puter. *I have "Spybot" and "Hijack
This". *I run both of them manually every couple weeks. *Win98 is not
really attacked by viruses anymore. *Just spyware ****.


Hi Jus, et all

Verizon said they had a security suite which could be billed along
with the DSL, and would automatically update virus definitions.
At that point in time (a few years ago?), the deal was to go to Best
Buy (for example) and purchase a AV CD then need to buy for
subscriptions for updates after a year.
pay for each computer.

The Verizon suite was competitive with that alternative, so we signed
up.
We have two, sometimes three PCs
They (Verizon) have improved this product over the years and it i now
a McAfee engine.
I cannot complain about the DSL because it is the only service
available in my market, and it meets my needs.

They (Verizon) never suggested that I run all this other crap, but a
few episodes with malware on other PCs prompted me to obtain
Superantispyware.

Maybe the market has changed and anti-virus is something that I no
longer need to pay for.
I'm old school and am suspicious of "free stuff"
I use Google, but live with popups and don't care if they are
keylogging me.
Chrome and Gmail, youtube etc all work great for me.

me no like Bill Gates

I just don't know the right formula, and the responses on this thread
are not clearing it up for me!

That's why I posted in the first place, to figure out what to use.

Right now i have disabled everything but Verizon Security Suite so my
PC doesn't stall out.
I'm disabling some of the weird stuff in my processes folder and
seeing what happens.

Superantispyware Techsupport says to remove and reinstall their
software to prevent the overload issue.

I'll try that next and I am open for further comment and discussion

Thanks!