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Thread ID: 118847	2011-06-23 13:24:00	What to replace my Norton with.	8ftmetalhaed (14526)	Press F1

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1211482	2011-06-23 21:33:00	Ahahhaaaaaaa hahahaaaaaa haaa haa ha ,.,......Here we go again. EDIT: +1 They could pay me to use it if i was an antivirus tester :)	Gobe1 (6290)
1211483	2011-06-23 21:35:00	AVAST Pro :) and I am not on a commission either.................	Zippity (58)
1211484	2011-06-23 22:56:00	and I am not on a commission either................. ...yes you are!	Chilling_Silence (9)
1211485	2011-06-23 23:03:00	GJ, I would have totally agreed with you a few years ago. Nortons was rubbish in my opinion from about 2004 through to and including 2009, it was boardering on bloatware, it was resource greedy, had compatibility issues and indeed made many machines crash as a result. It was the first programme I would get rid of for clients. However I have ran the 2011 version (Norton AV & Norton Inernet Security), Norton AV is very slick but didnt think much of NIS. I'm sure Eset has changed just as much over the last few years. I have a few clients that still use it, they are happy with it and their machines are virus free which is all I am concerned with. As I have said, no programme is 100% and luckily NZ has very little viruses compared to other countries I have worked in (South America being the worst). I base my recommendations to my clients based on their internet habbits & in most cases for my residential & small business users, MSSE is just as good and free. Cheers	Iantech (16386)
1211486	2011-06-23 23:37:00	...yes you are! Nope :) :) I just love to make these posts to PO the NOD32 supporters :) Like routers, some things work better for some people.	Zippity (58)
1211487	2011-06-23 23:51:00	You couldn't pay me to use it. You could pay me to use it, as long as I would be able to use it only on my test PC :p	pcuser42 (130)
1211488	2011-06-23 23:52:00	GJ, .......I'm sure Eset has changed just as much over the last few years. I have a few clients that still use it, they are happy with it and their machines are virus free which is all I am concerned with..... I'd agree & disagree with what you've said.. I dont think NOD has changed enough over the last 3 years I have many clients using it. It misses far too many REAL infections that are easily detected by Malwarebytes or the MK1 eyeball. Not good enough for a product that you have too pay for. Unfortunately the other free AV's are often not much better. Malware/spyware detection is abysmal in most AV products, even though they claim to scan for Malware/spyware. So its hard to justify a pay AV for home users. :badpc: Corporate AV is another story .... I wouldnt recommend Norton, for a few reasons. There dodgy business practices are just 1 good reason : for which they were fined by the US Govt.	1101 (13337)
1211489	2011-06-24 00:47:00	You could pay me to use it, as long as I would be able to use it only on my test PC :p You know what I mean. I'm sure if someone was paying me to use it I could find some crusty old PC that i don't use and install it on that too... :p	wratterus (105)
1211490	2011-06-24 01:00:00	You know what I mean. Of course I do, I'm just messing with you :p	pcuser42 (130)
1211491	2011-06-24 01:48:00	I've just repaired a laptop which had a fully updated version of Nortons on it. According to Nortons the machine was completely secure & clean. I then ran Malwarebytes... it found 411 infections! nuff said, the lappy is now running MSSE & Malwarebytes.	fnphoto (2434)
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