Monday, March 27, 2006

Four things that pissed me off today - so far.

GFYS
  1. My Norton anti-virus subscription expired this morning.  It took me 5 minutes to uninstall the whole thing.  Then I installed the free Avast anti-virus, and Zone Alarm programs.  I've been gone most of the day, but still  Zone Alarm has popped up 3,000 windows asking me to buy the Pro version.  Good bye Zone Alarm, and ..
  1. My Food Lion store discontinued Knorr's Chipotle sauce. Why?  Because ''it wasn't selling''  Oh really.  I go to Food Lion once a week, and I buy every box they have - which is two, at the most.  I offered to buy a case; the girl manager suggested I ''look in the Pasadena store.''



Oh,  poor babies don't think illegal aliens should be treated as illegals.  Here's an idea ... open fire on them from an AC-130 gunship.  Do this in 2-3 cites, and that will be that.



Then why ask?  This has pissed me off since WIN 98.  Prior to that Error Checking (DskChk) was done while you watched, and you had the satisfacton of  knowing how many fucked up files you just fixed.  Now, nada.  No satisfaction whatever.
3/27/2006 09:21:00 PM 6 Comments

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Anonymous said...

I've been using Avast for two years now and have never had a problem. I love the unubtrusive updates.
When I bought my new computer a few days ago, I uninstalled the free version of McAfee. There were still traces left in the startup config.
My comment to Avast was, after thanking them for a great program, was to ask them if they could code into their installer, an uninstaller for McAfee and Norton because they both act pretty much like... well, a virus.

3/27/06, 11:28 PM
Anonymous said...

I've recently (e.g. the past 3 days) begun converting my clients from Norton Corporate AntiVirus to AVG. The stories I'm reading about Norton not starting and not being uninstallable (had that problem) and McAfee releasing an update that deleted all .exe files on the PC. No thanks.

AVG is working great.

The update isn't unobtrusive to me - I've seen a few PC's have a momentary "pop-open" of the AVG screen but it is gone so fast you could blink and miss it. For free? No complaints.

And - to put things in perspective - I've got over 100 private PC's I support. Offices for Doctors, Lawyers (spit), Dentists, CPA's, etc. I require all of them to run NAV (now switching to AVG) and Firefox. I do not permit them to run Explorer. Nor do I allow them to install a local e-mail client. They can only use Yahoo!, GMail, or other "off-PC" e-mail. I have a Ghost (switching to True Image) image of each PC - including the servers - on an external hard drive for easy restore.

Of these 100+ PC's, in 4+ years, I've had to restore / reload exactly 4 PC's. Yes, I'm strict about what _they_ can use on _their_ computers that *I* support. And at $50 per hour, I could make a killing reloading their stuff. But these people are friends of mine and reloading PC's sucks. So I keep them safe. I don't care if the staff doesn't like me - the boss pays the bills.

All of the offices have a NetGear WebSafe RP618 router or equivalent. Standard Windows Firewall with Automatic Updates enabled. No special firewall software, no constant-on spyware checker, no pop-up blocker.

But no IE and no local e-mail.
And no problems.

3/28/06, 12:14 AM
Anonymous said...

Re the #1 comment, it reminds me of the guy who buys Smartee pills and remarks they taste like shit and the seller comments, 'see, you're getting smarter already'. Norton..UGH. I use eTrust EZ antivirus from Comp Assoc. Works great.

3/28/06, 12:51 AM
Anonymous said...

1. Not techy enough for this one. I've got Norton and Ad-Aware by Lavasoft.
2. I found Raley's in CA to carry your Knorr's Chipolte, but no luck on finding Maria's (?) hot sauce.
3. Nice AC-130 gunship link. Our daughter will soon begin training for job on those.
4. More tech stuff. Ask me how to take care of an inground pool.

3/28/06, 1:23 AM
Anonymous said...

Sounds like someone had a bit of a pissy day. Same here. And the weather hasn't helped a bit. Juice

3/28/06, 1:28 AM
Anonymous said...

Bad day at the office, eh?

3/28/06, 4:49 AM

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