Quick Norton question

[simpo two]

I have NAV 2002 and have kept the update subscription going each year. It's now due again. Is there any advantage in dumping it and starting fresh with the latest version out of a box, or is 2002 + updates effectively the same thing?

Thanks all!

[stumartin]

How strange. I'm in exactly the same position. I think I may well dump 2002 and buy in NAV 2005. Please understand this decision is based on no deeper technical understanding than assuming a 5 is better than a 2

Also, they're about the same price. Not fussed for the full tinternet security suite though, pretty pleased with sygate's firewall and I wouldn't have the first clue what to do with the rest of the stuff.

[GregE240]

Theres a way round the subscription, so I've heard.

[fer]

GregE240 said:

Theres a way round the subscription, so I've heard.

This thread is useless without pictures! (or something similar)

My subscription expires next month, and would be keen to know if it is worth upgrading, resubscribing, or going AVG/Avast.

[shadytree]

Quick Norton answer... It's crap !

I had AVAST installed on my machine a week ago and it picked up 33 viruses that Norton couldn't find.
The Techies I speak to hate Norton and say it gives you no protection.

just thought I'd give you some input

[GregE240]

fer said:

GregE240 said: Theres a way round the subscription, so I've heard. This thread is useless without pictures! (or something similar) My subscription expires next month, and would be keen to know if it is worth upgrading, resubscribing, or going AVG/Avast.

Anyone who wants to know, mail me for enlightenment. I'm not prepared to comment on here, sorry, I did last time this cropped up and I got bollocked for it.

[arcturus]

I'll second shadytree. Ditch Norton.

The major reason for doing this is that Norton only issue updates once a week, whereas the others issue updates as soon as they are necessary. You could be in a situation where a new threat comes out on a Thursday but you would remain unprotected until the following Wednesday - not good.

Personally I use McAfee. It checks for updates every 4 hours and McAfee are fairly quick with definition updates when a new virus appears.

Plus I personally believe the Norton interface is not very user friendly.

4 yrs ago I would have said don't bother with McAfee and use Norton, but not any more. Norton, i'm afraid is living on it's old reputation and frankly it doesn't deserve to anymore. It was fine until Symantec bought it off Peter Norton but it's been downhill ever since.

[stumartin]

shadytree said:

Quick Norton answer... It's crap ! I had AVAST installed on my machine a week ago and it picked up 33 viruses that Norton couldn't find. The Techies I speak to hate Norton and say it gives you no protection. just thought I'd give you some input

Thanks Shady, was that the free version or the paid-up professional one?

Also, they may well design good virus software, but their grammar's terrible:

avast.com said:

"New version of avast! antivirus kernel features outstanding detection abilities, together with high performance. You can expect 100% detection of In-the-Wild viruses (the ones what are really spreading amongst people)"

[pug406]

Simpo

YHM

Dave

[arcturus]

I'm a member of buyers group for independent computer resellers and was at a show yesterday where a number of the major manufacturers were trying to get us to buy their goods.

One of them was a Danish company called Bullguard who make anti-virus/firewall software. www.bullguard.com

The rep was kind enough to give me a copy to try and i've just uninstalled McAfee and ZoneAlarm and installed Bullguard.

I have to say that my initial impressions are very good. The installation was a breeze, no 'awkward' questions to answer and it configured itself very well. The interface is nice and clean and I have to say that my PC seems to be running quicker than when McAfee and ZoneAlarm were on. I was even more impressed when the firewall recognised a little known weather update program I have running and correctly allowed it access to the net. (Was not quite so impressed when it did not recognise Firefox).

As for it's anti virus capabilities, well i've read favourable reviews but only time will tell.

Anyone else use Bullguard?

[simpo two]

Thanks all, and especially Dave. I've swapped NAV for AVG (free version to start with) and the install was quick and easy.

The interesting thing is that it instantly found no fewer than seven Trojans!!!

One minor thing is that any returned e-mail (ie they clicked 'Reply to Sender') arrives with the paper clip symbol, so I can't immediately see which e-amils have real - ie new - attachments that I might want to look at. Also when I bounce spam (via Mailwasher) it bounces back to me again.... are there any settings I can twiddle?

[Mrs Fish]

James here:

There is a free nborton download which can be scheduled and will do virus updates in entirity whenever scheduled. I run it every three hours at work. Although I'm on their enterprise product I think it will ork for home. Its called cegetter..


Hope that helps.