security packages

[ABBAFAN]

which is the best make?

is norton anygood?

[The Avon Lady]

PC Magazine recently had an article on these. Check it out.

I believe Zone Alarm's package won this time.

I have gone totally off of Norton. I've succeeded in getting it kicked out of my workplace as well.

Personally, we have been very happy with the free ZoneAlarm and AVG versions as firewall and email AV software.

[geetrue]

This is the best security I've been able to find ...
But they don't come cheap.

"See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil"

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[The Munster]

Norton and Macafee lumped with Dell are a pig to get out of your system, a friend of mine was finding 'bits' of Macafee a year after he thought he'd got rid of it ! I opt for Avast, it's just uncovered a virus in my system. :up:

[bradclark1]

I've had Norton for 7 or 8 years and I have yet to be bitten by something Norton didn't catch on the way in. I'd say thats a pretty good record.
Stay away from McAffee because they wrap themselves tight through your operating system and removal in some cases lead to instability.
Whatever you get just make sure it has script blocking.

[sonar732]

Norton also has the history of embedding themselves so deep in the registry that it's hard to get rid of completely. They even have a removal tool because of this issue.

[The Avon Lady]

I've had Norton for 7 or 8 years and I have yet to be bitten by something Norton didn't catch on the way in. I'd say thats a pretty good record.
Stay away from McAffee because they wrap themselves tight through your operating system and removal in some cases lead to instability.
Whatever you get just make sure it has script blocking.
I'd just like to stress that my previous negative comment about Norton was not because it didn't provide great security. It did.

However, its code and processing is so bloated. The overhead in everything that it executed on all PCs I dealt with because of Norton Internet Security was absurd.

I don't care how deep something embeds itself, as long as when I uninstall it, it no longer runs a single line of code. I have found from experience that the newer the Norton AV product is, the cleaner is it deletion. Norton 2005 was smoother to get rid of than the 2004 version, etc.

[gdogghenrikson]

I personally hate norton...but I have had no problems with Mcaffee

[3Jane]

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?p=356051#post356051

[ABBAFAN]

What about norton do you hate?

[STEED]

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?p=356051#post356051

Hey my old thread, cool. As I stated in my old thread Norton has done a good job for me but I can not afford the renew costs. And I better hurry up making my mind up as time is running out fast now. :yep:

[Tchocky]

My free Norton is about to expire, think I'll not renew this one, seems to be quite the system hog.

[jumpy]

Norton Antivirus 2006 (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SW-016-NO) 1 years subscription £11.74 inc VAT

Symantec Norton Internet Security Suite - oem (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SW-019-NO) 1 years subscription £21.14 inc VAT

cheap as chips ;)
I've been using norton antivirus for ages and it does exactly what it says on the tin without costing a fortune either. I used to have an old (2003) version of norton internet security suite which was very clunky and restrictive to use in terms of its firewall.
ZoneAlarm Pro is quite good as far as I'm concerned, though some of the recent versions have had resource hogging issues when you boot your machine, but since I'm not connected to the net as soon as my computer starts there is no real need to have ZA boot with windows and clutter my startup.