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Member since July 14, 2004

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    Timothy Beckner

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    United States of America

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  1. Review - PGP Desktop for Windows

    8.1 (Apr 6, 2005)

    Not a very useful product, no mail program plugins.

  2. Review - Norton AntiVirus

    2005 Beta Build 71 (Jul 14, 2004)

    I am a very long-term user of Norton Anti-Virus and last year I made the mistake of upgrading to the 2004 version. Everyone is right 2004 is a very bad product. Bloated and a performance hog. I previously downloaded the 2005 beta and it would not install on a fresh install of Windows XP with SP2 RC2. In my total IT experience of 31+ years and 22+ years of PC experience, my judgement tells me that Symantec has lost it's direction. I will most likely not upgrade again and will end up switching to another vendor. It's too bad, Symantec built good products in the past.

  3. Comment - Glitch Offers Peek at Windows Update 6

    2005 Beta Build 71 (Apr 6, 2005 - 7:05 PM)

    I have 9 XP desktops, 3 servers (2-2003 SP1 (one SBS, not SP1),1-2000 SP4), 2 SQL Server 2000 servers SP4, Exchange 2003 SP1, Visual Studio 2003, a handful (24 or more) of major non-Microsoft applications, the kids have many current games (Doom3/Half-Life 2/EQ/WoW and many others) and all of the desktops have had SP2 installed from the date of release, and we have never had a problem. In addition, I have installed SP2 on a numerous other (over 50) machines and I have never had a problem, why are so many people against SP2? The machines run better and SP2 appears to be a very stable product. I also run Micrsoft SUS for patches and all of my machines (desktops and servers) ref to it for approved updates. Why all of this distrust?