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Monday, July 12, 2004

I thought anti-viruses were supposed to be the good guys. Somewhere between installing Microsoft's latest patch and installing Norton AntiVirus 2004, my Windows XP laptop has lost its ability to do all things IE-related without superfluous "Scripts are usually safe. Do you want to allow scripts to run?" dialogs and "Internal Program Error" dialogs. Attempting to restore XP to a restore point failed, as it always has on the machine -- wonder what magic is involved in setting it up to work correctly. It would be no problem if it only took out IE, as I prefer FireFox for browsing, but it has also disabled QuickBooks and the Norton AntiVirus user interface. Integrating their products with Microsoft's IE engine may not have been the smartest move. The solution, according to Symantec's email support , is to completely remove NAV and reinstall IE, a process they document in 21 pages in their email and knowledgebase.

Off to try the cure. Hope it's not worse than the disease. Wish me luck.

3:28:20 PM    comment []

Microsoft boosts partner investments. Company also reallocates one-third of its worldwide direct customer-marketing to joint-marketing with partners. [CNET News.com]

Putting its money where it's mouth is, Microsoft is trying to lure partners who buy into its vision.

12:00:58 PM    comment []

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