My satisfaction with Norton, AVG, McAffee, all have been less than positive. One machine with McAffee, was changed to Norton, then AVG. Finally, when I moved my family to MS Security Essentials I found many things that NONE of the others found and I have been much happier with the speed of the machine and the lack of maintenance that has been required. MSSE has continuous virus scanning as well as automatic downloads and updates - both of which require the pay version of AVG.
www.microsoftcom/security_essentials/
This may not help rid you of the problem the email being hijacked though. It depends on how they are doing it They may be spoofing from an external machine that you don't have access to. They already have your contact list and it only looks like it originates from you but in fact it does not. There is little that can be done besides turning off the account.
-Andy
On Dec 03, 2010, at 08:21 AM, "Emily L. Ferg oto.com> wrote:
> Norton? The bane of PC techs throughout the US, at least.
>
> I suggest, if you must use a PC, that you use AVG. It's free and
> does not hog RAM and apparently is much more effective than anything
> Norton ever created.
>
> Clearly you're address has been hijacked to send out these stupid pill spams.
>
> Also, you could do much better by not using a cloud mail service. If
> you have an email address through your web site server, you can cut a
> lot of this stuff out by using that consistently.
> --
> Emily L. Ferguson
> mailto:elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 508-563-6822
> New England landscapes, wooden boats and races
> http://www.landsedgephoto.com
> Check out my Spring daily photograph project at:
> http://tinyurl.com/3a6m7g6
> And Summer:
> http://tinyurl.com/3a6m7g6
> Autumn taking shape here:
> http://tinyurl.com/26pdgz9
www.microsoftcom/security_essentials/
This may not help rid you of the problem the email being hijacked though. It depends on how they are doing it They may be spoofing from an external machine that you don't have access to. They already have your contact list and it only looks like it originates from you but in fact it does not. There is little that can be done besides turning off the account.
-Andy
On Dec 03, 2010, at 08:21 AM, "Emily L. Ferg oto.com> wrote:
> Norton? The bane of PC techs throughout the US, at least.
>
> I suggest, if you must use a PC, that you use AVG. It's free and
> does not hog RAM and apparently is much more effective than anything
> Norton ever created.
>
> Clearly you're address has been hijacked to send out these stupid pill spams.
>
> Also, you could do much better by not using a cloud mail service. If
> you have an email address through your web site server, you can cut a
> lot of this stuff out by using that consistently.
> --
> Emily L. Ferguson
> mailto:elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 508-563-6822
> New England landscapes, wooden boats and races
> http://www.landsedgephoto.com
> Check out my Spring daily photograph project at:
> http://tinyurl.com/3a6m7g6
> And Summer:
> http://tinyurl.com/3a6m7g6
> Autumn taking shape here:
> http://tinyurl.com/26pdgz9
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