Dear Bob,

Just as Hal (and others did) I too ditched Norton some years ago 
(that was on an IBM ThinkPad). I went with AVG and have never 
regretted it. I would do what others have recommended, i.e. uninstall 
Norton completely and go with your favoured utilities.

Regarding IBM's advice, keep in mind that they'll still claim it's 
not really their problem but rather Microsoft / Norton's, even if you 
keep Norton. See no reason why you feel forced to use Norton (IBM's 
not insisting you stick with it) and I would go with the option to 
use the utilities you like and have used elsewhere.

Cheers -  = Cheeta Gauba   / [log in to unmask]



At 01:19 AM 10/31/2007, bob warasila wrote:
>About a month ago I bought a Lenovo T61 laptop that comes with 
>Norton Security.  I've built al my desktops myself and always 
>install AVG, Windows Defender, Spybot and Zone Alarm Free as my 
>safeguards so I thought I would not configure the Norton on it's 
>prompt and instead install those others in order to save the cost of 
>the subscription fee.  Everything has worked out fine as far as 
>internet access goes, however I can not connect to any of my e-mail 
>IP's using OE with this setup.  I just called IBM and their advice 
>was to configure the Norton and dump the other software OR to remove 
>the Norton.  But then they hedged by saying they're not really 
>responsible, that it's a a Norton problem or a Microsoft problem and 
>I should contact them.  So my question is, should I capitulate and 
>setup the Norton that came with the laptop and dump the AVG etc.?
>
>Bob Warasila
>
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