Don’t want the ICICI bank folks call you and bug you about their products?
Try this link : http://www.inuonline.com/dnc/donotcall.asp (linked from the ICICI bank home page)
From the above link :
We respect your privacy, and appreciate if you do not want us to contact you over phone for any telemarketing activity. If that is so, you may use the Do Not Call form below to register your name and any of your phone number(s) that you want excluded from our calling lists.
This is a welcome move. Will have to wait and see if they will religiously follow it.
Would be great if there is a nationwide central repository in India too which all the companies can adhere to. I guess, its already present in US.
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July 21st, 2005 at 08:59pm
Made a switch from Norton antivirus to Avast antivirus today. Norton was taking too much of resources. Clearly a bloatware. Wanted to switch for sometime now, but somehow it did not happen till now. Ok. Avast is from a company called Alwil software, and is pretty decent. Its free for home/personal use.
I had used avast antivirus for sometime a year ago. I had switched back to Norton antivirus to try out a new version of Norton antivirus - 2005, which was a nightmare. It made my 1.5GHz processor behave like a 400 MHz processor. So, again switched back to Norton 2003.
The latest version of avast is quite impressive. It managed to detect some adwares present in my memory on the first run. Norton antivirus never detected this adware!.
I also did a full system scan, and found that there were some Trojans too which were on my system. Clearly bypassing Norton antivirus.
Avast antivirus is quite responsive, fast. It auto updates its antivirus signatures. Apart from the standard in-memory scanner, it has modules to take care of p2p applications, IM’s, network access etc.
I have been running it for a while, and the performance of the system is pretty good.
More details/features available at the avast site.
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July 21st, 2005 at 12:08am