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I think overall you will get better protection from a ‘paid for’ antivirus as the company can afford to utilise more people and resources
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*snort*
I have customers who use Norton, swear by it, and refuse to migrate away from it. I clean crap out of their systems every two months. Eventually they get tired of paying the "Norton repair tax" and let me install AVG Free Antivirus and Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird. Guess what? No more infections for years at a time!
Just because you pay more for it doesn't mean you're going to get more.
...and if you don't believe that, spool up Ubuntu Linux side-by-side with Windows Vista and watch to see which crashes first. You won't have to wait long.
Just because you pay more for it doesn't mean you're going to get more.
...and if you don't believe that, spool up Ubuntu Linux side-by-side with Windows Vista and watch to see which crashes first. You won't have to wait long.
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That’s a fair point, however as a general rule a company like AVG that have a free and a paid for Antivirus solution are going to have more staff working on the paid for one.
I think Norton is built for and targeted at the average home user, its certainly not the best package out there, but the average user, and just about everyone who works at PC World think it’s the best thing ever and there is no way in the world you would ever get a virus when you have Norton…
I think there is no way in the world I would ever get Norton!
That’s a fair point, however as a general rule a company like AVG that have a free and a paid for Antivirus solution are going to have more staff working on the paid for one.
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Actually the AVG paid for product is more or less the same as the free one, they certainly use the same update files, scanning engine and the UI is the same. the free one has a couple of unecessary scheduling features disabled.
And i agree totally with NH (Q).. Do a Nortondectomy, install AVG and another browser like Fx or Opera and the computer will fly again.. all your malware problems will vapourise into thin air.
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I think Norton is built for and targeted at the average home user, its certainly not the best package out there, but the average user, and just about everyone who works at PC World think it’s the best thing ever and there is no way in the world you would ever get a virus when you have Norton....
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PC World people are normally dummies, a work collegue of mine who knows nothing about computers asked me if he should renew his norton subscription, which claimed his sytem was virus free. I told him to get AVG or avira (the free ones). He chose AVG and AVG found 58 viruses on his PC and it killed them all.
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I think there is no way in the world I would ever get Norton!
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I had it when first got my comp, I uninstalled it never to darken my comp again.
I had it when first got my comp, I uninstalled it never to darken my comp again.
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Any software company that has separate uninstallers for its programs available for download from its website 'in case the built in one fails to remove the product' is headed in the wrong direction... but it is quite useful if you just want rid of it!
Any software company that has separate uninstallers for its programs available for download from its website 'in case the built in one fails to remove the product' is headed in the wrong direction... but it is quite useful if you just want rid of it!
norton is a horrid piece of software. in fact not only would i never buy it, but i'm pretty sure you couldn't pay me to use it on my own boxes. i personally have used a number of av programs in the past, but what i currently use and don't see the reason to change from is avast. its free like avg and takes up very little space, the only difference was that for me it has picked up things that avg hasn't, then again i've seen avg pick up things that avast didn't, so for me its six of one or half dozen of another.
I use Avira Antivir its free and updates definitions everyday and the scan is very thourough.
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Doesn't that antivirus have a nag screen on startup? I'm sure I tried it about a year ago and uninstalled it because of that.
On the main subject though I use the free version of AVG and find it good. At the end of the day most of the main stream AV are good as long as your carefull in your surfing habits and what you open etc.
If you do want to buy an AV package then scan have some good OEM versions of the big brands like Kaspersky which is meant to be one of the best for dirt cheap. Personaly I wouldn't touch Norton with a barge pole. Whilst it does it's job well (from what I remember) it's overbloated and a system hog.
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That’s a fair point, however as a general rule a company like AVG that have a free and a paid for Antivirus solution are going to have more staff working on the paid for one.
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They (AVG) most certainly do have more staff working on the paid version as the bloated size of the install package and the incredible amount of resources that it consumes, demonstrates. While I have no problem recommending AVG Free, you'd never catch me recommending their paid product suite. It's a dog. If AVG could make it as lean and clean as some of their free products, I'd be a big fan.
This is what happens when the marketing jackasses get too much of a say in how the products are put together. Norton used to create good products at one time, too.
Orson Scott Card has a good theory on why this happens.
11-Mar-2008, 05:24 AM
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