I will second this. I had Symantec on my machine and there was a virus in a zip file that it did not catch. AVG ( is am using the free one) caught it in about 2 days. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 4/13/2005 at 12:13 AM Erick Paquin wrote: >This is not to put them down but Symantec is honestly no good at >stopping viruses...just last year i fixed around 250 machines infected >that had symantec onboard with no good results...even ourselves at the >time were running it and got caught. > >So we switched to Grisoft's AVG Pro and then no more problems ever >since....even better now that we use Firefox instead of IE. > >Just download a trial of AVG and check for yourself. www.grisoft.com > >Erick P. > >nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote: > >>Hi Erick, >> >>My first thought also. But as the machine runs Symantec with update of >>definitions almost every week, and a check was performed the night >>before and the machine was not connected in the time between (it still >>runs on ISDN dial-up, manually only when needed), I ruled it out. The >>install-files for Apache were already downloaded and sitting by. >> >>But, the virus scanner also doesn't run anymore.... So the virus should >>have been inside the machine and "attacked" after the install? Which >>virus could that be? >> >>Regards, >>Wim. >> >> >>Op 13/4/2005 schreef "Erick Paquin" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> >> >> >>>A virus in your machine? >>> >>>Erick P. >>> >>>nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Hi All, >>>> >>>>I installed Apache 2.0.53 on a Windows XP Home Edition (with SP1) >>>>machine. It runs great, also the PHP and MySQL I have there, no >problems. >>>> >>>>BUT, now the system looks somewhat "crippled", I cannot access the >>>>configuration options anymore, e.g. when I look to the network cards and >>>>TCP/IP setting, there is nothing displayed. Installing a new adapter >>>>tells me it is already there. And it also runs... I can use most of the >>>>programs, but the MS Office suite tells me it "cannot register" a >>>>document I'm trying to edit. But editing works oke. >>>> >>>>I looked at several things and came to the conclusion that the accoun t >I >>>>use might have been corrupted. But opening the program to administer >>>>accounts shows nothing anymore. Weird, eh? >>>> >>>>So what is going on here, has anyone a clue to help me? >>>> >>>>Regards, >>>>Wim. >>>> >>>> >>>>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server >Project. >>>>See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. >>>>To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>>For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>-- >>>"Fletcher left the police car at the railroad station. Rossie and >Willcox have found the car. Now, Fletcher's on a freight train. 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