Norton AV 2002 v Norton AV 2004 ?

[TUS 373]

Any real difference between these products? I have 2002 on my PC and its time to renew the subscription for £25.00. However, I have seen an upgrade pack for sale at £30.00 that upgrades to 2004 and includes firewall software, pop up blocker, anti spam. However, I'm behind a hardware firewall, use a free pop up blocker and don't have a problem with spam. So is it really worth going out and spending an extra fiver - or should I just renew the old product on line??

Another alternative is to load up the Corporate version (v7.6) which has free updates due to the licence on it. However, I got the impression from somewhere that this corporate version is more flawed than the current version, despite the signatures being available and current. Can anyone shed any light on these?

[voyds9]

TUS 373 said:

Any real difference between these products? I have 2002 on my PC and its time to renew the subscription for £25.00. However, I have seen an upgrade pack for sale at £30.00 that upgrades to 2004 and includes firewall software, pop up blocker, anti spam. However, I'm behind a hardware firewall, use a free pop up blocker and don't have a problem with spam. So is it really worth going out and spending an extra fiver - or should I just renew the old product on line?? Another alternative is to load up the Corporate version (v7.6) which has free updates due to the licence on it. However, I got the impression from somewhere that this corporate version is more flawed than the current version, despite the signatures being available and current. Can anyone shed any light on these?

How much IIRC my systemworks update was £13.74

[TUS 373]

Yep, Symantec want £25 to update the subs instantly over the net, including VAT at Eire rate of 21%!!.

I have seen Av 2004 on ebay though for £15.00 all in (delivered) for new product with 12 months sub. Normally that would be £39 in the shops like PC World.

[simpo two]

My NAV subscription last year inc automatic update was £10.50...

[TUS 373]

Then that sounds like a reasonable deal. All I can tell you is that it flagged up on my PC that the subscription was due to expire and that when I went to the payment page it was around £20 UK for the privilege plus the Irish VAT. If I was offered a deal at that kind of money, I'd have jumped at it! Sounds like you got a bargain there.

I've bid on ebay and got the NAV 2004 pack plus 12 months sub for £15.50 including the Paypal payment. Comparing that to the online sub of £25 or buying the NAV 2004 pack from retailer at nearly £40, I think I'll be content with that.

[simpo two]

Sounds good. It's well worth it, and of course you won't be spewing viruses out to all your buddies!

Incidentally, I got a massive attack of Novargs, followed by MyDooms. I know they are the same virus, but it's odd how NAV first ID'd them as Novarg, then adjusted them to MyDooms. Even the Quarantine listings have changed.... odd. But, about 3 days ago, the onslaught suddenly stopped. Even the spam seems to have died down... is this a record?

[jam1et]

Whan a new virus comes out some AV companies give it different names. Mydoom and Novarg are indeed the same virus and NAV now displays it as Mydoom, but with NAV virus definitions dated prior to February 4, 2004 it will detect this threat as W32.Novarg.A@mm.

[Plotloss]

Its exactly the same internally with a more cuddly front end.

There are free firewalls and virus checkers out there that are just as good...

[simpo two]

jam1et said:

Whan a new virus comes out some AV companies give it different names. Mydoom and Novarg are indeed the same virus and NAV now displays it as Mydoom, but with NAV virus definitions dated prior to February 4, 2004 it will detect this threat as W32.Novarg.A@mm.

Thanks - I guessed right!

[whitey]

TUS 373 said:

Then that sounds like a reasonable deal. All I can tell you is that it flagged up on my PC that the subscription was due to expire and that when I went to the payment page it was around £20 UK for the privilege plus the Irish VAT. If I was offered a deal at that kind of money, I'd have jumped at it! Sounds like you got a bargain there. I've bid on ebay and got the NAV 2004 pack plus 12 months sub for £15.50 including the Paypal payment. Comparing that to the online sub of £25 or buying the NAV 2004 pack from retailer at nearly £40, I think I'll be content with that.

Is that Ebay product genuine ? I bought the 2003 twin pack Antivirus and Firewall a year ago off the shelf from PC world. I can upgrade online for about £26 or I can buy the new 2004 twin pack antivirus and Firewall off the PC world website for £37 or buy a Norton Internet Security Pack 2004, which includes Antivirus, Firewall, anti spam etc off ebay for £19, but I am concerned it will not install correctly or is not genuine ?

Anyone know ?

cheers
Whitey

[leosayer]

Well my NAV 2002 sub was due and would have cost around £25. I did a bit of hunting and ended up with upgrading to NAV 2004 last night for $39.95 which works out at around £24!

I didn't a system check and it found some adware which I don't think the 2002 version ever did.

[FourWheelDrift]

Norton will sort you out

[TUS 373]

My ebay purchase arrived yesterday. Its an OEM version of Norton AV 2004 with 12 months subscription. It looks genuine enough, installed first time and I have now registered it and getting updates. Its real and all for £15 instead of £39.99 at PC World or £25 for Symantec's online subscription renewal (keeping the original 2002 version). So, ebay is a winner - and highly recommended.