Re: [Thinkpad] T43: Norton Systemworks Basic Edition <--> AVG problem

From: Jeffrey Race <jrace_at_attglobal.net>
Date: Fri Nov 09 2007 - 18:37:52 EST

Yes, I have the Basic Edition, which does not include AV; the installer apparently
is too dumb to notice.

It works fine when installed; I have my pretty dt disk-usage monitors onscreen,
and can do the WinDoctor stuff as before with W2K. I'm happy.

On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:06:41 -0800, Aryeh Goretsky (home) wrote:>Hello,
>
>Symantec has three versions of Norton System Works; a basic edition, a
>regular edition and a premier edition. The regular and premier editions
>come with Norton Antivirus, so it could just be a problem with the installer
>for Grisoft's AVG not being able to discriminate between the version installed
>on the ThinkPad T43.
>
>You might want to do a complete backup of the system, then try installing
>the software. If no conflict occurs, you could then continue with configuring
>the system.
>
>Regards,
>
>Aryeh Goretsky
>
>
>
>At 11:03 PM 11/5/2007, you wrote:
>
>>Message: 8
>>Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 02:02:48 -0500
>>From: "jrace@attglobal.net" <jrace@attglobal.net>
>>Subject: [Thinkpad] T43: Norton Systemworks Basic Edition <--> AVG
>> problem?
>>To: thinkpad@stderr.org
>>Message-ID: <380-2200711267248146@M2W030.mail2web.com>
>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>>
>>Due to the excellent results obtained with NSW WinDoctor on my W2K
>>partition, I got a copy of NSW Basic Edition V 10 for daughter's XP
>>T43.
>>
>>At install warning came up that it is incompatible with AVG.
>>
>>Does anyone have experience with this? I can find no anti-virus
>>module in NSW so can't see a reason for a conflict.
>>
>>Thanks for any ideas.
>>
>>Jeffrey Race
>
>
>
>--
>No virus found in this incoming message.
>Checked by AVG Free Edition.
>Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.23/1114 - Release Date: 11/6/2007 8:05
PM
>

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