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Ancient Dragon · Jun 6th, 2005, 6:53 PM

What anti-virus scanner do you use? I currently have McAfee, but am not satisfied with it for two reasons:
1. It is not written with visually-handicapped people in mind. The program's various dialog boxes are not resizeable, so if you have your computer set for large fonts you will not be able to access (or see) the various buttons, such as Ok, Cancel and others. That make some (most) dialogs unusable.

2. Scans take too long. It just now took over 4 hours to do a full scan of my computer, It has Windows XP Pro, 37Gig drive, with 25 Gig used. And there were no other processes running during this time, except those needed to keep the os going, Microsoft Spyware amd Popup Add filter.

I have been thinking of switching to Norton Antivirus. Any other opinions?

Jun 6th, 2005, 6:53 PM	#1
Ancient Dragon PFO God In Training Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: near St Louis, MO. (USA) Posts: 599 Rep Power: 4	Anti-Virus Scanners What anti-virus scanner do you use? I currently have McAfee, but am not satisfied with it for two reasons: 1. It is not written with visually-handicapped people in mind. The program's various dialog boxes are not resizeable, so if you have your computer set for large fonts you will not be able to access (or see) the various buttons, such as Ok, Cancel and others. That make some (most) dialogs unusable. 2. Scans take too long. It just now took over 4 hours to do a full scan of my computer, It has Windows XP Pro, 37Gig drive, with 25 Gig used. And there were no other processes running during this time, except those needed to keep the os going, Microsoft Spyware amd Popup Add filter. I have been thinking of switching to Norton Antivirus. Any other opinions?