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For six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul

Monday, October 08, 2001

Virus scanning under XP now has two choices: The horrible Norton Anti-Virus 2002 and McAfee VirusScan 6.0, which I bought this weekend at Micro Center. We'll see how long it lasts, as I know I need to run AV software, but I can never stand the effect it has on the system. I also grabbed a copy of Microsoft's bloated Encarta Reference Library 2002, mostly for its dictionary and thesaurus tools. But you can't really customize the install too much, so I only installed the FactFinder component, which is wonderful, providing both dictionary and thesaurus, but limited, because you have to be online to use it. Grr...

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