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?

[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.

[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.

[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.