Fed up with Norton Antivirus, what else should I use?

[Sovkiller]

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Originally Posted by dj_mocok Sorry, but what's wrong with using Norton? Is there something I need to know about them? Please don't tell me I just made a mistake. This is the second year I'm using Norton Internet security (the whole package, not just NAV). Currently using Norton Internet Security 2005 with 1 year subscription...

There is absolutelly nothing wrong with it, it is still among the first 5 best antivirus softwares ever made, people preffer others and that is all about, sometimes they are free, sometimes they use less resources, but at the end all of them do the same protect yuo from virus and period.

Even when I had a few other free softwares as backup and just in case, saved in in a safe media, I was using Norton for long time, and I will keep on using it unless something wrong happen....

 

[dj_mocok]

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Originally Posted by Sovkiller There is absolutelly nothing wrong with it, it is still among the first 5 best antivirus softwares ever made, people preffer others and that is all about, sometimes they are free, sometimes they use less resources, but at the end all of them do the same protect yuo from virus and period. Even when I had a few other free softwares as backup and just in case, saved in in a safe media, I was using Norton for long time, and I will keep on using it unless something wrong happen....

Glad to hear that. I also use both Spybot S&D and AdAware and use them periodically to remove all those spyware and stuff that I got from surfing the *uh hum..* "discovery" channels.

I think as far as I remember, I got hit by virus twice so far, and both of them were stupid mistakes I made myself.
I remember I got one from surfing the web straight away after reinstalling my PC without installing anti virus 1st.

and the second one, couldn't remember how I got it, but it was the one that kept restarting your PC every minute or so... Tough one to beat that one. I had to race against the restarting time limit in order to quickly surf the net and find the solution and download it before it restarts itself again...

 

[bLue_oNioN]

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Originally Posted by rauer Well, I could say that in the test I linked to above AVG caught 54.07% of the viruses when for example Kaspersky Personal Pro version 5.0.20 got 99.28% and F-Secure 2005 version 5.10.450 got 97.55%.

I'm surprised no response has been given in the face of these results yet.

 

[XxATOLxX]

I have NOD32 and to this day its the best Anti-Virus I've used. I really like how its extremely unobtrusive and its so easy to use that you would never even have to read the manual to learn how to use it. Also you would never know its there until that big red thing pops up that you have received a virus. Also, did I mention it uses just as much ram as foobar?

 

[viator122]

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Originally Posted by bLue_oNioN I'm surprised no response has been given in the face of these results yet.

Is there one?

 

[bLue_oNioN]

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Originally Posted by viator122 Is there one?

There should be one, considering a number of replies after his post still recommend low-ranking AVs.

 

[viator122]

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Originally Posted by bLue_oNioN There should be one, considering a number of replies after his post still recommend low-ranking AVs.

Yes, you'd think so.
AVG users, do the test results make you rethink your use of the program?

 

[zeyus]

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Originally Posted by viator122 Yes, you'd think so. AVG users, do the test results make you rethink your use of the program?

I highly recommend Avast

1. It's free
2. Updates are easy
3. It was the first antivirus program to support 64 bit for a long time.