Best Replacement for Norton Antivirus... - Page 3

I use NOD32 and is fine for me, In my opinion, is faster than NORTON and dont kill my pc...

NOD32 appears to be amongst the winners on that comparison website. My school gives us one for free, called sophos. Anyone got an opinion on that i find it annoying and the school locked out the options so we can't change any settings on software on our own computers!

After many years of use, I finally dumped the bloated Norton and switched to the often-recommened AVG six months ago. However, after reading the most recent test results from http://www.av-comparatives.org/ where it placed LAST in the detection of bad stuff (Norton was 3rd from last), I'm re-evaluating my decision to go with "free". NOD32 was #1, btw.

I'd like more details on that free part

I just purchased Norton Antifast Premier because it's what I've used in the past with no problems, and I needed GoBack & Ghost.
I think Norton is fine so long as your system can handle it. It should have an easier ON/OFF toggle, though.

I absolutely agree that it's the new AOL 4.0! And the way they market their "packages" of products so that you cannot EVER ****ing purchase the ones you want without buying the ones you don't want to pay for, -or if you want them all, you have to double up on one or two, and pay for them....Really makes me want to go postal at their marketing division headquarters! I really hate feeling like I'm being completely and utterly ****ed by a company when I purchase something.

Anyway, Norton can be configured to behave a bit, but it really does suck on the system resource nipple. MacCafree's just as bad, from what I hear.


Now...I have a laptop downstairs in my shop that I use for surfing porn & the like, and it has NO antivirus or firewall protection. Completely unprotected internet intercourse, and I clean up the adware with Spybot S&D, HijackThis, and a handful of other freewares. It's been that way for over a year, on hispeed (cable), and aside of the "EliteBar" adware bug, I've never had to hunt down any viruses.

I have to question these tests where unprotected systems were infested with viruses after 20 minutes on the net. I mean, they must've gone right to **** my system .com!

I'm not suggesting that AV isn't necessary by any means, but I think that the masses need to buy crap like Norton because those same people can't seem to tell that they shouldn't click on an advertisement offering to scan their system for problems "FREE!", or open an email with an attachment or link that will instruct them on how to recieve their "FREE!" Mercedes!

Big name, high cost AV programs are designed for the ignorant masses. That combined with their cornholing marketing strategies makes me feel really low about having purchased it.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/AVG_Free_Edition_d886.html

I use NOD32. It is a paid av, but very good.

Ouch $40 is a year is a bit much for NOD32

Ouch $40 is a year is a bit much for NOD32

It's 27.30 to renew each year. 40.95 for 2 years. I can't remember the last time I subscribed to Norton, but that doesn't seem too far out of line.

$28 a year is cheap compared to losing important data. For others, that may be too much. I guess it depends on what you have on your system.

I know this thread seems to have died but I thought I'd add another 2 cents to it.

I've been using avg free for years without any problems but, for giggles, I decided to give AntiVir a try again. For some reason, which I never did discover, it spent way too much time hitting the internet all on it's own, at least, so said zone alarm. I kept it updated every day so that wasn't it. I have no idea what it was doing.

I didn't like that so I went back to AVG. I've also tried Avast, Norton and Mcaffee.

AVG works the best in my book....low resource use, easy interface, no worries. I've double checked with online scanners to make sure it's catching everything and I've never been infected yet.

yep, after the switch from norton AN 2003, to AVG, wow, such an exellecent program, however every day, a pop from AVG tells me about priate/iellgal copies, and that i click ok ,and ti downlaods asmall file...... and its over n done it, this happens every day.