Swine Flu Arrives Here

[kandrathe]

Thank you all for your very kind sentiments, I'll be taking a medicinal dose of my Glenmorangie today, the current resident of my scotch bottle. While I love a good scotch, I have lately taken to sipping two other whiskeys, Tullamore Dew, an Irish blend, and Wisers higher end Canadian Whiskey, in a square bottle. Less expensive, and for a general after work sipping evolution, very smooth.

But desperate times call for desperate measures, so Glenmorangie it shall be today.

However, given that Mexico was site of initial outbreaks in our hemisphere, I might need to get closer to the source and sip on some of the high end tequila I have in the cabinet. I rarely reach for that, but now and again, a little bit over ice with some lime squeezed over it is a regional sipping event worth having.

Mrs Occhi insists I take "Airborne" every day. I have my doubts as to its medicinal effectiveness. I think the hype/ads for it overstate its quality. Since it makes her happy, I dropped one in a cup a few minutes ago and am swilling it down. It just ain't as good as coffee.

As to our recently departed sixth grader, I found out last night that she had been slightly ill for a couple of days, and third or fourth day her mom found she was not responding to standard "treat a sick kid" treatment and so took her to hospital.

It's a pracitcal matter that not everyone with a slight sniffle panic, but the devilish thing this virus has is slightly ambiguous symptoms at first,

I am also concerned about a different kind of virus.
My daughter has a laptop computer, which, I have come to find out, has not had its Norton Anti Virus and so-on updated for over three months. Subscription expired ... I gave her a butt chewing for that oversight, as I am happy to pay for subscription renewal to keep her reasonably safe.

I do have a question:

what are the recommendations you all have for open source/"free" or "shareware" anti virus alternatives to Norton?

McAfee I detest. Norton is OK, I guess. I have Trend Micro on the current machine, but my experience has been mixed on its utility.

Is there good stuff out there? If you are tempted, don't just tell me to buy a Mac.:P

Occhi

I've been using AVG successfully. Smaller footprint, and they keep up with new virii like the other two big gorilla's. I've never used Norton (intentionally), since I met the guy and he was an arrogant putz. I know it is now Symantec and Peter was probably never bright enough to actually write the AV product, but on principle I've avoided his moniker since 1980. Before AVG, I used McAffee, but their product has become unwieldy, so I was looking for just a simple effective AV solution.