I work for a PC repair company, most of the virus infested PC's that come in have Norton products installed. I need not say more...
I too recommend Avast. I have run it across my whole company for six months now and not a single virus has made it through. When you consider we place approx 6-12 infested machines on our network a day, it is a good testament. The boot time scan is most excellent for already infested machines.
i used norton antivirus 2004 for around 2 months... (can't even believe i kept it that long) Norton is the worst antivirus i've ever used. It is slow, RAM hogger, always has to scan every single program you are using and it gets annoying and slows your computer. AVG Antivirus is very good. If you are not a computer geek i recommend you use it. I personally use NOD32 Antivirus. It is amazing. It constantly scans your computer without slowing it down a bit. It has extremely fast scanning. It scanned my 30 gb of data in 7 minutes. It found viruses that AVG and norton could not find. NOD32 also updates very often. Unlike Norton that updates around once ever week and a half, NOD32 updates daily and sometimes even 3 times a day.
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What do you guys think about norton would yuo say and part of it is good or sould i get ride of it and go with somehting else??
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i don't like Norton AV if that's what you are talking about, it's a resourse hog and is far too difficult to uninstall which both mean poor programming. then there is the nonexistent support. you shouldn't have to put up with any of those things especially when there are better AVs around. but, if you have it installed already and aren't having any problems with it i would keep it, but uninstall the real-time scanner and go with Anti-Vir. it has the best heuristics of the free AVs. then you can use NAV as an on demand scanner. doing that you should find a marked increase with your computer's speed.
i don't like Norton AV if that's what you are talking about, it's a resourse hog and is far too difficult to uninstall which both mean poor programming.
Actually it means the installer they use has issues, and they did not fully set everything in the installer properly.
Actually it means the installer they use has issues, and they did not fully set everything in the installer properly.
am i missing something here? the installer has issuses? doesn't that mean bad programming?. and what about setting up the installer incorrectly? wouldn't that be poor programming too?
or are you trying to say that maybe the installer was made by a different company so it doesn't count?
am i missing something here? the installer has issuses? doesn't that mean bad programming?. and what about setting up the installer incorrectly? wouldn't that be poor programming too?
or are you trying to say that maybe the installer was made by a different company so it doesn't count?
I'm unsure whom Norton uses for installers, but I think it may either be InstallShield or WiseInstaller. Surely you've noticed when you uninstall things they often say not everything was uninstalled?
Symantec usually uses the Microsoft Installer system. There is nothing wrong with any of the aformentioned installer systems, except when people write shoddy scripts, such as Symantec has. Norton-products have file and registry permissions problems, shared DLL problems, WMI problems, and since it uses the IE core it then can have ActiveX problems, WSH problems, Zone problems, etc... there's an unlimited number of ways to ruin a Norton installation/uninstallation.
Symantec usually uses the Microsoft Installer system. There is nothing wrong with any of the aformentioned installer systems, except when people write shoddy scripts, such as Symantec has. Norton-products have file and registry permissions problems, shared DLL problems, WMI problems, and since it uses the IE core it then can have ActiveX problems, WSH problems, Zone problems, etc... there's an unlimited number of ways to ruin a Norton installation/uninstallation.
Yeah, the first step is buying their product.
i was thinking of going with NOD32.
It seems to be good.
Is that a wise choice?
I think it's a very wise choice i recommended it but i have to warn you that some people, i don't know why though, think it has a confusing interface... I've also heard that their online support isn't all that good. However, I still use it just fine and i have never had any problem with it. ZoneAlarm does not detect NOD32 as an antivirus system... I don't know why though.
NOD32 is fast, updates rapidly and frequently, takes up VERY LITTLE RAM. I fully recommend you use it.
So i am going to use nod as my antivirus i guess that means i should get a good firewall .
any ggood ones that work well with nod32?
Outpost Firewall Pro is nice... otherwise zonealarm pro...
which one is better
which one is better
any one got a link to the nod site
any one got a link to the nod site sad.gif
which one is better
no which one is better actually... i prefer zonealarm... it is more user friend than outpost... but outpost uses very little resources as compare to zonealarm... maybe you can read about their products at their website
Zonealarm
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/home.jsp
Outpost
There's no way Norton beat NOD32
I've had some bad expiriences with Norton 2005. The uninstaller is horrible. It damaged IE and many other programs. I tried installing Avast an AVG but neither would run becuase of what Norton left behind. At one point my pc wouldn't boot. Ended up reformating ...
If I can find my thread in another forum about all the problems I had I will post it.
Oh, and mabey you should check out Syagte as a firewall.
There's no way Norton beat NOD32
I've had some bad expiriences with Norton 2005. The uninstaller is horrible. It damaged IE and many other programs. I tried installing Avast an AVG but neither would run becuase of what Norton left behind. At one point my pc wouldn't boot. Ended up reformating ...
If I can find my thread in another forum about all the problems I had I will post it.
Oh, and mabey you should check out Syagte as a firewall.
That test was moronic... It compares the minor and petty details. It doesn't tell you how well the antivirus scanned, how fast, and how efficiently. It's just "is there password protection" and crap like that. It just sees if it has that capability but does not compare its efficiency. The review is total bullsh*t.