Re: virus warning
 

You could try avg its free and works as well as norton http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
I didn't bother buying the upgrade as a guy at work told me he has it and it doesn't do a lot more.
You could try this
http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2005230270,00.jpg

Re: virus warning
 

all i know about anti virus is zilch,but the guy at darwen who builds and repairs computers told me not to touch norton,so i bow to his knowledge due to my abscence of it.

Re: virus warning
 

Trend is pretty good - that's what I've got.

The one on the laptop is called BitDefender, which I had never heard of until yesterday

Re: virus warning
 

I must admit i used to use Norton but now use Panda its free with free updates for virus checks and i have never has a problem its easy to set up too

Re: virus warning
 

Panda os OK, AVG from Grisoft is another i recommend to Windows users. I too am not a fan of Norton.

Re the Teddy bear hoax, it was actually not a windows system file but a java debugger and for 99.99% of people would cause no problems whatsoever.

As for these Hoax emails they are effectively using you as teh virus. Most viruses work on the principle of reading your addressbook and sending itself to everyone in it. the hoaxes don't even put the effort of writing the code to do it, they rely on people being scared and following their instructions. If these said please delete all your files would you do it? I don't think so so please don't go sending stuff to everyone. All it does is clog up networks with unecessecary traffic.

For those of you who only use a PC for Internet, email and office there is another way!