OK, so following on from all the wonderful advice I got on here I am picking up my new box this afternoon. The nice man who is building it for me was very impressed with the spec I asked for - thanks a lot Spud! Asus motherboard, Geforce Graphics and Athlon Tbird processor. Very nice!

Next question - have any of you got any views on utilities and anti-virus software? My current machine is running Norton Anit-virus (for which I have to pay an annual update fee, bah!) and a VERY old version of Norton utilities. I am informed by people who are considerably cleverer than me that the McAfee stuff is better. Anyone got any comments to make on this - advice much appreciated.

-- Anonymous, February 20, 2001

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-- Anonymous, February 20, 2001

Jacko
If I'm not mistaken, Norton is now part of McAfee, so if you are paying for the Norton you might be able to download from the web, the latest Mcfee anti virus software and latest version virus dat files. There's even a scheduler you can set up that will update everything automatically at times you specify.

Don't know if there are levels of license, based on 'you get what you pay for', but McAfee seems to do the business, as long as you keep the virus dat files up to date.

-- Anonymous, February 20, 2001

I tried McAfee because I felt Norton was rather smug (and pictures of the "owner" on the box of software seems stupid). But I was led to rue my own pretensions to being serious. I was just completely unable to download the McAffee virus updates. What was worse when I changed to Norton somehow I did not manage to uninstall McAffee properly. The residue of what was left of McAffee thought that the Norton software was a virus, captured the CPU, took it away and sulked. It took 2 weeks to put the damn thing right!

-- Anonymous, February 22, 2001