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[JPM]

John, all the advice above is good, but you're a bit misguided with your setup, unless you have Norton Corporate/Enterprise edition this cannot be pushed out to the other machines, it's a standalone version you have so you would need to install this on all machines and update on all machines. I would suggest using different AV's across the machines though to give a more blended approach if for example virus A comes along Norton might not detect it, whereas AVG would then virus B might get picked up by Norton but not AVG if you see what I'm getting at.

[yeti]

Originally Posted by JPM

John, all the advice above is good, but you're a bit misguided with your setup, unless you have Norton Corporate/Enterprise edition this cannot be pushed out to the other machines, it's a standalone version you have so you would need to install this on all machines and update on all machines. I would suggest using different AV's across the machines though to give a more blended approach if for example virus A comes along Norton might not detect it, whereas AVG would then virus B might get picked up by Norton but not AVG if you see what I'm getting at.

Sounds like sound advice. Have taken the Antonye approach coupled with your own. At least my AV is up to date daily and virus checked every night.

We now have two dead 'puters indoors!

[andys 900ss]

Yep, I've been a victim of this and its crept in and wipped the boot sector.

Being a my laptop was a prize winner it didn't come with a XP disc but only the software loaded and sticker/serial no underneath!!

Tried re-loading another copy and its got worse, first it didn't find the second copies boot sector, then the drive failed altogether and the machine wont see it!!!

I had Avast and whatever PC world supply with the machine anti-virus software, it got by all them, must be one of those hundreds of **** emails you get everyday!!

I didn't save my email contacts either, which has caused the biggest problem.... tried saving a number of times, but failed!!!

Be careful, I'm gonna spend xmas re-loading a new drive with all my software and a external drive for data

Andy