Blerry Viruses ...
Well, amofw, you can come and install a Dell at my place anytime!
What concerns me about some of the latest Viruses (virii?) is their ability to disable Norton AV. I'm not even going to ask how they achieve this, but how do you detect that NAV has been disabled? Presumably it appears to run without detecting anything, but the system just gets slower and s-l-o-w-e-r.
Second question - once you have deduced that NAV has been nobbled, how do you get it back to doing what it should be doing? Clean install?
Feeling a bit sensitive about viruses at the moment - last week was back at a site where I picked up a W32.BleBla worm last year. And one of the students had exactly the same symptoms that I experienced last year (unable to save document on any drive because "Disk Full"). But NAV gives the system a clean bill of health. So I just wonder whether NAV has been nobbled.
Comments anyone?