Computer Wonderment...

LVR · #1 01-18-2009, 02:21 AM

hi MD

Just a couple of observations from your posts..... I have moved away from Norton to Kaspersky Antivirus. I have noticed a cleaner running and better detection rate of intrusive trojans. I now have my whole office running it and we do not experience the issues of workstations slowing down that we had previously. We also seem to have no viruses anymore.

Re the error message, it was a bug that can be fixed a number of ways... one being remove and reinstall, the other being..

You should have only 4 folders in your (Real) app data, that is located on C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Real where the Username refers to your login username. (This location works for Pre-Vista, as known as anything up to Windows XP regardless of its Service Packs.)

For Windows Vista, it is located at C:\Users\Username\App Data\Roaming\Real where Username agains, refers to your login username.

The 4 folders should be seen are Msg, RealMediaSDK , RealPlayer & rnadmin.

All other files that is not stated above in bold should be deleted.

and here is Realplayers link about how to fix http://service.real.com/realplayer/d...eUpdateFix.rnx

As a dedicated PC guy myself (including all my office) I finally bought a desktop Mac two weeks ago (24" 2.4Ghz Intel Imac). I have been amazed at its' simplicity, ease of use and pre-loaded packaging. I pulled it out of the box, turned it on and after a couple of minutes it asked my for the code to my wireless network, connected itself and next minute I'm watching all the movie trailers for 09 in HD!! Quite impressed, no cables, dongles or crap whatsoever. I also bought an Appletv unit and now have all our iTunes avail on our Plasma, downloaded movies etc. Pretty cool

When you go back to Windows you see how cumbersome the method of interacting between software programs really is. That said, I know it well but I sure do wish Windows could be as simple as a Mac...

Cheers

J

X5rolls · #2 01-18-2009, 08:44 AM

MD, et all, -

I'd also put in a big vote for Kaspersky Antivirus - changed over from Norton a month a go or so. It has better detection (found things Norton couldn't find) and I combine it with Malware bytes.

I'm not a windows expert by any means - I really don't want to invest additional cycles to do more than I do or know more than I already do. Our IT support team told me to move to Kaspersky and add Malware - that was good enough for me and I'm convinced it's better than Norton Anti-Virus.

My thought is though that on the virus side, it's probably ok to have multiple tools as I believe no one vendor can have 100% detection/fixes against everything rapidly.

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Originally Posted by LVR

hi MD

Just a couple of observations from your posts..... I have moved away from Norton to Kaspersky Antivirus. I have noticed a cleaner running and better detection rate of intrusive trojans. I now have my whole office running it and we do not experience the issues of workstations slowing down that we had previously. We also seem to have no viruses anymore.