Thread: Internet Security / Antivirus

Originally Posted by JES

Hi all,

I running XP, and also run Nortons Internet Security and Antivirus. My subscription is now due, but I was wondering what do others use?
Any reasons for choice?

The reason I'm asking is that I've heard that Nortons is slower than other options, but I'm not sure.

John

They, in my opinion, are all much of a muchness, however I found Norton was 'doing things' that I could not control.

I am comfortable with McCaffee - easy to drive, easy to control.

.............however much is down to personal choice

use AVG a free ware version doesnt have all the bells and whistles of the pay to sue verison but good for home setup

I run Norton IS and must admit it is slow. Also changed another system over from McAfee to Norton and found it was very slow to start up since then.

I'm happy enough with Norton's and will probably stick with it.

One thing of not is if you plan to upgrade to Vista you need to check what A/V program you are running and the verison. You may have to uninstall it pre-ugrade and then go to a new version.

Originally Posted by dm_td5

I run Norton IS and must admit it is slow. Also changed another system over from McAfee to Norton and found it was very slow to start up since then.

I'm happy enough with Norton's and will probably stick with it.

One thing of not is if you plan to upgrade to Vista you need to check what A/V program you are running and the verison. You may have to uninstall it pre-ugrade and then go to a new version.

Agree with that, Vista - apparently is incompatible with McCaffee

Originally Posted by cartm58

use AVG a free ware version doesnt have all the bells and whistles of the pay to sue verison but good for home setup

I installed AVG free edition earlier this week. Since then I have received 6 spam emails. AVG is the only company I have given my new email address to since changing it due to an enormous amount of spam mail.

software_innovations@lists.initialbest.com is the mob sending me the spam mail. I will telephone AVG in Australia next week and ask them if they pass on email addresses.

Be warned about 'free' products.

For home use I recommend and have done for many years.

Grisoft AVG Free.
Lavasoft Ad-Aware.
Microsoft Defender.

For anyone that's interested I have a quick reference page of apps I use and basically the steps I go through to fix virus/malware related issues,
http://unconfigured.wordpress.com/malware-spyware/

hope it helps.

I've used both the free version and paid version of AVG for many years on literally hundreds of computers, never a problem.

Best regards
DarrenR

Norton NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO < ----- don't do it !!!!!!
Worked in IT for about 17 years, anyone tells you Norton is best they are wrong.
(sorry dm_td5, everyone is entitled to an opinion)
Norton is living off it's reputation from years gone by, (Dos stuff).

Firewall = > Kerio
Antivirus => Avast
Spyware => Firefox browser, Hijackthis, spyware blaster, spyware guard, spybot search & destroy.
All Free

Use these you will rarely have any trouble.

Originally Posted by HangOver

Norton NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO < ----- don't do it !!!!!!
Worked in IT for about 17 years, anyone tells you Norton is best they are wrong.
(sorry dm_td5, everyone is entitled to an opinion)
Norton is living off it's reputation from years gone by, (Dos stuff).

Firewall = > Kerio
Antivirus => Avast
Spyware => Firefox browser, Hijackthis, spyware blaster, spyware guard, spybot search & destroy.
All Free

Use these you will rarely have any trouble.

I didn't say Norton was the best, just that I am happy with it. It does its job but definitely has a performance overhead (particularly at startup). Every year when my A/V maintenance comes up I look at what is the best solution and review the options.

The best IMO is Sophos, but now we're talking a different level A/V. Like you, I had over 17 years in IT and, yes, I agree Norton is still living off its reputation from the old days. I just wish that everything was on VMS or RSTS...and if we were running CPM instead of DOS based PC's would there be the Linux arguments