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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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| 1211492 | 2011-06-24 03:34:00 | GJ, Nortons was boardering on bloatware, it was resource greedy, had compatibility issues and indeed made many machines crash as a result. However I have ran the 2011 version NZ has very little viruses compared to other countries I have worked in It has nothing to do with it's bloat problem, fixed or not. It's the fact that it misses so much, try it for real next time, run the piece of ****, then run MSSE or NOD and see what it missed. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1211493 | 2011-06-24 04:02:00 | Yes, agreed. Granted neither is 100%, but I am still yet to see something NOD32 misses that Nortons will come along after and pick up. It is 100% always the other way around. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1211494 | 2011-06-24 07:44:00 | ok well norton vs eset is fine, but what of eset vs msse? | 8ftmetalhaed (14526) | ||
| 1211495 | 2011-06-24 07:53:00 | ok well norton vs eset is fine, but what of eset vs msse? I believe that race is close. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1211496 | 2011-06-24 08:29:00 | I have no issues with MSSE. It protects me fine. | goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1211497 | 2011-06-24 09:08:00 | While its "hogging power" is less, and it installs quick ( big deal) Norton Still misses a lot. Earlier this week, a customer asked me to extend his current Nod32 to include a second laptop that his daughter had purchased since she was coming back home. She had Norton INS 2011 on it as a trial , as it came pre installed since its newish ( 2 1/2 months old). I uninstalled Norton 2011, put Nod32 on and even while updating the latest defs, nod flashed up with a warning about an active infection. I set a scan going which was estimated to take an hour or more (teens and junk they must have on a laptop :rolleyes: ), I left, after I had configured Nod to its max protection -- got a call later on, found 5 infections 2 of which were Trojans of some kind ( didn't say which ones). He ran MalwareBytes, and super antispyware as well -- all clean. Generally, I reccomend the following; Free = MSSE. then Avast Paid = Nod32 - it is better than MSSE & Avast. AVG === :lol: >>>wont go there, better off with a fly swat. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1211498 | 2011-06-24 10:20:00 | My sentiments exactly! | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1211499 | 2011-06-24 12:41:00 | Sounds about what I already figured anyway, but of course best to get opinions from those in the know :D I'll look into eset in the next few days then. |
8ftmetalhaed (14526) | ||
| 1211500 | 2011-06-24 13:23:00 | pctek, GJ was talking about why Nortons made his system crash, not to why it was crap at picking up viruses. pcuser42, I was given a 5 user licence of Norton AV 2011 end of last year, I would have sent it to you for nix to have/try/use but I cant find it in the office, it might have got dumped when the office took a beating in the Feb quake. Sorry mate, but if I do come across it, I'll pm you. Anyway... Pretty much agree with you WT, first programme I uninstall on a pre-installed factory system is Norton Internet Security. And as for AVG, yeah, wouldnt go there . lol Had any experiences or thoughts about Kaspersky (AV or Internet Security)? |
Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1211501 | 2011-06-24 21:23:00 | I wouldn't use Norton if they paid me. I'd rather go bareback than use that bloatware. I'm using Avira free version and finding it to be good so far |
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