Update or Upgrade?

[simpo two]

My Norton subscription is nearly due. Currently I run a fully updated version of NAV2002, plus ZA (free version). OS is XP Pro.

A friend has suggested www.trendmicro.com/en/products/desktop/pc-cillin/evaluate/overview.htm

What does the panel think? Is it time to start from fresh with totally new software?

[docevi1]

why bother with a pay-for service? AVG to my knowlegde is just as good and is free (well, it checks for virii and stuff, but nothing else). get it from www.grisoft.com.

Personally I'm of the opinion run what you need i.e. I run AVG for virri detection (on specific files, it doesn't run in the background), Sygate Personal Firewall - www.sygate.com (I needed more network capable, more tunable firewall and prefer the techy look) and a hardware nat firewall. Never have any trouble on my PC. My mothers is a different matter tho "whats this attachment mean?"

[leosayer]

If you decide to keep Norton, it might work out cheaper to upgrade to NAV2004 rather than continuing your subscription on 2002. Due to fx rates differences I think.

[warmfuzzies]

Be careful with teh NAV 2004,its a resource hog.
I'm on XP Pro. 2600+ 512MB ram and it gets awfully slow at times, I'm thinking of going back to 2003....seriously its that slow at times.

kevin

[simpo two]

Thanks - there is a school of thought that says - if it works, don't fix it.

[marlboro]

Kevin,

I may be wrong, more than likely....
I've found NAV2004 OK but Nortons firewall to be the resource eater.

[miniman]

warmfuzzies said:

Be careful with teh NAV 2004,its a resource hog. I'm on XP Pro. 2600+ 512MB ram and it gets awfully slow at times, I'm thinking of going back to 2003....seriously its that slow at times. kevin

Oh the irony of this post appearing along side an advert for Norton!