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Need new anti-virus software
Hi! Norton A-V came installed on my computer and I used
to renew it once a year. After Gateway reformatted my hard drive I had to buy new A-V software and I purchased & installed Norton 2004. It has been nothing but trouble since the first day, despite many uninstalls, reinstalls and another hard drive reformat. Symantec is working with me via e-mail to try to resolve the problems but they are just too numerous and I'm sick of it; this has been an ongoing problem since October 2003. It causes so many errors, etc. that I'm running with no anti-virus protection right now. So to finally get to my question: Can anyone recommend a good anti-virus program other than Norton? I'd probably be better off buying the software on CD instead of downloading something because of my slow, dial-up connection. I really appreciate any advice - thanks!! |
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Need new anti-virus software
Vickie said in :
Hi! Norton A-V came installed on my computer and I used to renew it once a year. After Gateway reformatted my hard drive I had to buy new A-V software and I purchased & installed Norton 2004. It has been nothing but trouble since the first day, despite many uninstalls, reinstalls and another hard drive reformat. Symantec is working with me via e-mail to try to resolve the problems but they are just too numerous and I'm sick of it; this has been an ongoing problem since October 2003. It causes so many errors, etc. that I'm running with no anti-virus protection right now. So to finally get to my question: Can anyone recommend a good anti-virus program other than Norton? I'd probably be better off buying the software on CD instead of downloading something because of my slow, dial-up connection. I really appreciate any advice - thanks!! In the last independent testing that I read, Norton Antivirus (which I use) detected (that's detected, not eradicated) 95% of the in-the-wild viruses. While that might not sound great, all but 2 AV products were 95% or lower. The KAV-engined products got into the 99% detection range: Kaspersky and NOD32. However, as I recall, those 2 were also the slower scanners (that's for the manual scanning, not for the auto-protect or online scanner). As I hear, they aren't the most user friendly, either, but ease-of-use and security have always been the antithesis of each other. I don't remember where I read the test results but the search for the report probably started with a search from http://www.eicar.org/ or http://www.wildlist.org/. My NAV subscription runs out in May 2005. At that time, I probably won't be sticking with Symantec's anti-virus and firewall products. The KAV-engined products are probably what I'll get (probably Kaspersky) but it depends on what is considered best at that time. I was almost going to get rid of Norton's firewall (Norton Internet Security) because it is such a resource hog (115MB just for NIS) until I found out it was because they load their huge categorization table into memory if you have Parental Control enabled. On a reinstall, I skipping the Parental Control feature (so it's not even available) although that it the only way in the product to perform URL filtering. -- __________________________________________________ __________ *** Post replies to newsgroup. Share with others. *** Email domain = ".com" *AND* append "=NEWS=" to Subject. __________________________________________________ __________ |
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Need new anti-virus software
-----Original Message-----
Hi! Norton A-V came installed on my computer and I used to renew it once a year. After Gateway reformatted my hard drive I had to buy new A-V software and I purchased & installed Norton 2004. It has been nothing but trouble since the first day, despite many uninstalls, reinstalls and another hard drive reformat. Symantec is working with me via e-mail to try to resolve the problems but they are just too numerous and I'm sick of it; this has been an ongoing problem since October 2003. It causes so many errors, etc. that I'm running with no anti-virus protection right now. So to finally get to my question: Can anyone recommend a good anti-virus program other than Norton? I'd probably be better off buying the software on CD instead of downloading something because of my slow, dial-up connection. I really appreciate any advice - thanks!! . Hi, I too installed Norton 2004 back in January when my NAV2001 expired. I too had endless problems. I removed mine and returned it to Symantec for a full refund of the purchase price on the basis that it was not fit for the purpose it was sold. Yes it claims to be suitable for WinME, and no, it's not. I then took some sage advice from this newsgroup and downloaded AVG 6 Free Edition antivirus from www.grisoft.com and kept the change. It works fine with WinME. I also downloaded Zonealarm from www.zonelabs.com for a firewall. It is also free for home use, and it works OK with WinME. Zonelabs user forum seems to show that their latest free firewall (V5) is not as good as their previous free one (V4.5) You can get 4.5 from here http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/fre...tion/znalm/zaR eleaseHistory.html Good luck. BarryG |
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Need new anti-virus software
Vickie
Have been using Avast!, a free AV program for two years, without any problems whatsoever. If interested, visit www.avast.com Dan "Vickie" wrote in message ... Hi! Norton A-V came installed on my computer and I used to renew it once a year. After Gateway reformatted my hard drive I had to buy new A-V software and I purchased & installed Norton 2004. It has been nothing but trouble since the first day, despite many uninstalls, reinstalls and another hard drive reformat. Symantec is working with me via e-mail to try to resolve the problems but they are just too numerous and I'm sick of it; this has been an ongoing problem since October 2003. It causes so many errors, etc. that I'm running with no anti-virus protection right now. So to finally get to my question: Can anyone recommend a good anti-virus program other than Norton? I'd probably be better off buying the software on CD instead of downloading something because of my slow, dial-up connection. I really appreciate any advice - thanks!! |
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Need new anti-virus software
Hi Vickie,
I went through the same thing you're going through. I hate Norton because it just uses too many of your computer's resources. I've switched to Panda and I love it! You can go directly to the Panda site by going to http://www.pandasoftware.com or if you'd rather purchase the CD (which I recommend), try looking into one of the Yahoo stores for it, which you could probably get it for about $19. I'm really not sure the price for the software because I've had it for about 2 years now. It's the easiest AV I've ever used and instead of updating once or twice a week, it's done every day. Look into it...and good luck. Carol -----Original Message----- Hi! Norton A-V came installed on my computer and I used to renew it once a year. After Gateway reformatted my hard drive I had to buy new A-V software and I purchased & installed Norton 2004. It has been nothing but trouble since the first day, despite many uninstalls, reinstalls and another hard drive reformat. Symantec is working with me via e-mail to try to resolve the problems but they are just too numerous and I'm sick of it; this has been an ongoing problem since October 2003. It causes so many errors, etc. that I'm running with no anti-virus protection right now. So to finally get to my question: Can anyone recommend a good anti-virus program other than Norton? I'd probably be better off buying the software on CD instead of downloading something because of my slow, dial-up connection. I really appreciate any advice - thanks!! . |
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