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| Thread ID: 87865 | 2008-03-07 01:17:00 | Why Nortons is crap.... | wratterus (105) | PC World Chat |
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| 647060 | 2008-03-09 01:23:00 | The only possible reason I can see for all the OEMs bundling Norton is they get kickbacks, but can anyone prove it? Why else would they make all the slow new PCs with vista & 512mb RAM unusable by installing Norton on them? Their customers would be less pissed off if they got a decent anti-virus program. In saying that though, Norton has been quite a money spinner for my work - almost every computer we get in with Norton on it gets a 1 or 2 year subscription to NOD32 and/or more RAM (Some people refuse to believe that Norton is not a good product) Its not kickbacks but a legal contract between the OEM's and Norton. Norton has to pay a fee to be installed on every computer in the hope that once the free period ends, the gullible customer will pay full price to renew their subscriptions. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 647061 | 2008-03-09 01:30:00 | but why did the chain stores use it as the standard bundled antivirus? They don't. They're probably barely aware of its exitence. The likes of Compaq, Dell etc bundle it. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 647062 | 2008-03-09 03:05:00 | So which free Antvirus do you recomend to your customers if they dont wont to pay. | Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 647063 | 2008-03-09 03:38:00 | So which free Antvirus do you recomend to your customers if they dont wont to pay . I recommend Avast Home . AVG Free and Avira Anti-Vir are decent ones too . |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 647064 | 2008-03-09 03:48:00 | I recommend Avast Home . AVG Free and Avira Anti-Vir are decent ones too . Go Avast! :clap |
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