Norton internet security

[carsonshepherd]

My subscription is almost up and I'm thinking about getting something else, because according to my broadband ISP's customer help person, Norton and Windows have a communication problem.

Does anyone have any suggestions/advice to offer on this matter? Please keep it simple if you can, I am tech-impaired.

 

[Harry Leg]

AVG is free and it works pretty good althought the user interface isn't as friendly as it could be.

you can get it from Downloads.com
AVG anitvirus

 

[Tom Collins]

AVG is free and it works pretty good althought the user interface isn't as friendly as it could be.

you can get it from Downloads.com
AVG anitvirus

Hey, Harry, is this the same thing as Avast? Cuz I'm using Avast right now and it really pisses me off all the time. But if this is something different then I'd like to give it a try.

 

[ibhard]

stick with norton antivirus, but get the new edition rather than renewing the subscription. 2006 is pretty good. i haven't had any problems with it on my computers, an old one and a new one.

 

[carsonshepherd]

stick with norton antivirus, but get the new edition rather than renewing the subscription. 2006 is pretty good. i haven't had any problems with it on my computers, an old one and a new one.

thanks. will do.

 

[Harry Leg]

Hey, Harry, is this the same thing as Avast? Cuz I'm using Avast right now and it really pisses me off all the time. But if this is something different then I'd like to give it a try.

Its a different program. The interface isnt maybe as nice but I like it better than Avast.

 

[Tom Collins]

Its a different program. The interface isnt maybe as nice but I like it better than Avast.

Thanks for the info, Harry. *big, snuggly *

 

[zeb1094]

Personally I use McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.1 but only because I get it from work.

If you can afford it McAfee works well with Windows.

 

[Tom Collins]

Personally I use McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.1 but only because I get it from work.

If you can afford it McAfee works well with Windows.

I won't allow McAfee within 10 paces of any computer of mine. I had it on a desktop...my very first ever computer and it turned into a virus. I shit you not, man! When you booted the puter it would load up...and then it would load up again...and then it would load up again...and again..and again...ad infinitum...untill all of the Ram was completely taken up and the processor would seize and the system would crash and you couldn't keep it from doing it. Had to reformat the HD because it would happen so quickly that you didn't have time to uninstall the damned thing.

 

[Softouch911]

stick with norton antivirus, but get the new edition rather than renewing the subscription. 2006 is pretty good. i haven't had any problems with it on my computers, an old one and a new one.

Good advice, imo, Cason ... with this caveat. When you boot the computer the Norton AV will insist on taking up quite a bit of time and space overlooking all of the files that boot ... takes time. So I go out and make coffee or something while it uses the computer and by the time I get back it's usually done and I don't have to gripe about how slow it all is.

Good luck.

ST

 

[kendo1]

I don't use any payware nowadays.
Try Major Geeks for freeware.
SUPERantispyware is brilliant- no joke.
http://www.superantispyware.com/?tag=SUPERANTISPYWARE

And of course- don't use InternetExplorer.

Ken

 

[CharleyH]

My subscription is almost up and I'm thinking about getting something else, because according to my broadband ISP's customer help person, Norton and Windows have a communication problem.

Does anyone have any suggestions/advice to offer on this matter? Please keep it simple if you can, I am tech-impaired.

I paid a full price for Nortons (see me under word: SUCKER), but AVG did me beautifully for three years before that and its free! Combine it with spyware and you got a winner of a system.

 

[Guest]

would never recommend changing antivirus after you load norton. norton invades the registry. you just try to get all those nugget out...its a total PIA.
freeware rocks.
but since you started with norton, you should probably continue on with it.

 

[AsylumSeeker]

Ask a person and you'll get differing responses. I trust my data to Norton, always have for years, even when competitors have been out there like McAfee. They have almost daily updates if you're so inclined.

I also agree with waiting until Xmas to buy the next version and free year of updates, I do that.

AS

 

[Liar]

Since Harry and Tom mentioned and didn't like Avast, I just gotta ask... what's bad with it?

Curious, since I use it since three weeks, when my Norton subscription ended and I tossed it to high hell for being a behemoth of system resource hogging monster. I was wiping the whole machine anyway, so the registry messing was not a problem.

 

[CharleyH]

would never recommend changing antivirus after you load norton. norton invades the registry. you just try to get all those nugget out...its a total PIA.
freeware rocks.
but since you started with norton, you should probably continue on with it.[/QUOTE

Hi peaches. (swoon) I never knew you knew anything about anything other than nursing or sex?

 

[Guest]

would never recommend changing antivirus after you load norton. norton invades the registry. you just try to get all those nugget out...its a total PIA.
freeware rocks.
but since you started with norton, you should probably continue on with it.

Hi peaches. (swoon) I never knew you knew anything about anything other than nursing or sex?

hello cream,
promise not to tell a soul?
some times... in the dark of night...i can be....sssssshhhhhhh
intelligent

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I've had Norton and McAfee. Hated them both, though admittedly Norton is the devil in my eyes. It came free on the machine, so I stuck with it. McAfee is markedly better but it's a resource hog. I recently helped my Mom purchase a computer and found out from the guy at Dell that Trend Micro's PC Cillin was just as tough as McAfee and Norton but used up much less of your computer resources and also was awesome with wirless and other types of networking. I've had it on here for about a month and I love it. Takes care of problems, doesn't take an hour to load, updates quickly and removes crap expediently. It was cheap too, like thirty or forty bucks. I dunno, but I like it.

 

[CharleyH]

hello cream,
promise not to tell a soul?
some times... in the dark of night...i can be....sssssshhhhhhh
intelligent

LOL - Sssshh - I know.

 

[Guest]

LOL - Sssshh - I know.

awesome
lets get naked and know together.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

awesome
lets get naked and know together.

Word.

 

[CharleyH]

I've had Norton and McAfee. Hated them both, though admittedly Norton is the devil in my eyes. It came free on the machine, so I stuck with it. McAfee is markedly better but it's a resource hog. I recently helped my Mom purchase a computer and found out from the guy at Dell that Trend Micro's PC Cillin was just as tough as McAfee and Norton but used up much less of your computer resources and also was awesome with wirless and other types of networking. I've had it on here for about a month and I love it. Takes care of problems, doesn't take an hour to load, updates quickly and removes crap expediently. It was cheap too, like thirty or forty bucks. I dunno, but I like it.

Hi gorgeous. Well, Norton is a rip off now isnt it after 2 days? McAfee? I say we all go to the freebies - they don't damage our computers.

 

[kbate]

I ran some home based tests on an infected computer. Scanning from a firewalled network machine with the infected computer as a shared drive:

AVG - missed 2 viruses.
McAfee - missed 1 virus.
Norton 2006 - found all known viruses.

***
Spybot search and Destroy and AdAware - both found similar files and problems although spybot found more suspicous files.

***

None of them found and removed the browser Hijacker - necessaryupdates.com

that required a Hijackthis log and manual removal from the registry and other places.


Overall Norton and spybot win.

Norton Internet Security - might be secure - but unless the super secure firewall is required - the performance loss was not worth it.

 

[CharleyH]

I ran some home based tests on an infected computer. Scanning from a firewalled network machine with the infected computer as a shared drive:

AVG - missed 2 viruses.
McAfee - missed 1 virus.
Norton 2006 - found all known viruses.

***
Spybot search and Destroy and AdAware - both found similar files and problems although spybot found more suspicous files.

***

None of them found and removed the browser Hijacker - necessaryupdates.com

that required a Hijackthis log and manual removal from the registry and other places.


Overall Norton and spybot win.

Norton Internet Security - might be secure - but unless the super secure firewall is required - the performance loss was not worth it.

So damn - keep Nortons and pay every year? Are you like an advertiser, KB?

 

[kbate]

So damn - keep Nortons and pay every year? Are you like an advertiser, KB?

No, but it did work the best of the three. I left my friend with AVG as he did not wish to pay for updates.