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| Thread ID: 57490 | 2005-05-04 03:37:00 | [B]Should I or Shouldnt I?[/B] | grandad w (510) | Press F1 |
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| 351955 | 2005-05-04 03:37:00 | I have been having trouble with Norton Updates (pressf1.co.nz) Do I really need this? The wisdom has been that I should update Norton or get AVG, or Nod32 Look at (http://anti-virus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/) Which leads me to (anti-virus-software-review.toptenreviews.com) which is apparently the gold medal winner of the anti-virus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/ Being like a lot of folk who drive cars who don’t know what goes on under the bonnet I am a bit wary of messing about with the innards of my computer. I would appreciate some advice on the following Questions Will I have any trouble un-installing Norton’s? Which of AVG, Nod32 or BitDefender would better suit my nervous disposition? :help: I am happy to pay for the necessary protection if need be. Doubtless there will be folk who have had experience of one or possibly all of the above systems. I would appreciate hearing of their experiences :confused: ;) Grandad W |
grandad w (510) | ||
| 351956 | 2005-05-04 03:55:00 | I use Avast (http://www.avast.com/) and it's built in File consistency checker, in the event of a corrupted file and it's web filter proxy to be very good. You may have trouble uninstalling Norton if you have a later release (can be buggy). If successful, install Avast. |
KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
| 351957 | 2005-05-04 03:57:00 | From one month before my Norton 2004 sub was due I was unable to connect to the update server. Symantec was most unhelpful. So Norton was uninstalled and AVG Free installed without any problems. Go for it but download the AVG Free before uninstalling Norton and then work offline to install AVG. Good luck |
Valerie (4740) | ||
| 351958 | 2005-05-04 04:01:00 | bitdefenderi have breifly tried with no problem. seems to get reveiws. do they have a demo ver? NOD32 has always been quite good. AVG has also been good, a lot of users here use it exspecially the free ver. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 351959 | 2005-05-04 04:05:00 | I use Avast also and it appears about as good as any.I paid yonks for Nortons and had no end of trouble.WATCH OUT WHEN YOU TRY TO UNINSALL IT THO. There is a method which will only cause brief headaches but if you get it wrong it develops in to huge migrains.I uninstalled the wrong way and then took ages to get finally rid.I think the first move is to make sure and use the Nortons uninstall facility but do not take that as gospel. Avast is free to home users with a download then registration which gives 15 months of updates. |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 351960 | 2005-05-04 04:15:00 | What kind of uses do you put your computer through? | vinref (6194) | ||
| 351961 | 2005-05-04 05:15:00 | I would take review sites with a grain or 30,000 of salt. Many are directly or indirectly paid to advertise the very products they review. Many have product withdrawn for future reviews if they give a bad review. In short, the vast majority of (commercial) reviews online are tainted to some extent. If you want non/less tainted material you need to go to enthusiast, scientific or profesional security sites. HackFix Tests (www.hackfix.org). A little on the light side with range of vendors and mid 2004 tests. No usability review. Virus Bulletin (www.virusbtn.com) Tests/certification, software has to reach a threashold of detect and clean. No usability review. VTC (agn-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de). Lots of info but make sure you've got your waders on. Not all products tested. FreeBytes (www.freebyte.com). A good resource for downloads and info. Having said all that, I've heard that Bitdefender is pretty good. I personally use Nod32 on this machine and AVG Free on the family PC. For Home use AVG is fine. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 351962 | 2005-05-04 05:16:00 | Hi. I support Valerie. AVG seems to support my needs. So much so that I actually weakened and made them a cash donation eventually. I found that when I deleted Nortons, I kept finding bits of it, links to it and so on for months. The damn thing was tied in to almost everything I touched. Reluctant to let go. ;) | Scouse (83) | ||
| 351963 | 2005-05-04 06:18:00 | ;) ;) Thanks to all who responded After rummaging around amongst those things that may come in useful one day I found the Disk that was used to install Norton 2002 Would it help when comming to un-install? :confused: :confused: grandad w |
grandad w (510) | ||
| 351964 | 2005-05-04 08:50:00 | I think there is a post unistall cleanup tool at Symantic's/Norton's site. Not sure if it works on 2002 though. Like Scouse, when I got rid of Nortons a few years back, it didn't want to go, stuff left all over the place in system folders and the registry. There is an element of this with any AV app though, by necessity they have their fingers in a lot of your systems pies. Nortons seems to wallow though, is quite dirty in it's habits, just like a Zombie it remains undead and leaves bits of it's putrid self everywhere it goes :groan: |
Murray P (44) | ||
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