What are your security choices?
Security Suites Are Rife With Problems . If security software is so necessary in Windows -- as it is -- why are we supposed to pay extra for it? By Rob Pegoraro. [washingtonpost.com - Technology - Industry News, Policy, and Reviews]
Does everybody need to become an expert on security software to be able
to run a home computer for email and internet research? Probably yes.
In the article above, Rob Pegoraro concludes:
If you're running Windows XP, you're better off sticking with
the firewall built into SP2, then downloading Microsoft's AntiSpyware
and using a mail program with a built-in spam filter, such as
Microsoft's Outlook 2003, Qualcomm's Eudora or the free Thunderbird.
Then run whatever antivirus program came with your machine. If one
isn't active, Symantec is better than McAfee (I plan to review other
antivirus utilities soon).
If you're not running XP,
go with the McAfee suite for now. But think hard about whether you
actually need to run Windows on your next computer. Compared with
dealing with these programs, life with Mac OS X or Linux -- both
blissfully free of spyware and viruses --may look awfully appealing.
Good luck.
BTW I couldn't activate the Symantec suite on a machine without
Internet access. I intended to upgrade a Windows 2000 machine, but
Symantec gave me 15 days to register at their website. That was more
than 15 days ago, and it an older machine I use for testing and
storage. Not connecting to the internet had saved me from the
time-consuming, security update cycle.
3:10:09 PM 
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