Good ole Norton...

[Dowly]

Cant say I've ever felt the need for an AV program. I usually get me something free twice a year and scan the PC and believe it or not, I havent had viruses or high risk spyware on my PC in years.

[Tarrasque]

I dropped Norton when they decided that you payed for a years subscription and then couldn't use the damn thing again.

I stick to AVG nowadays.

[longam]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Cant say I've ever felt the need for an AV program. I usually get me something free twice a year and scan the PC and believe it or not, I havent had viruses or high risk spyware on my PC in years.

This reminds me of a guy in a tech support room awhile back, it was funny as hell. He was asked if he had AV software on his system and he said 'hell no'. He claimed with a loud voice that 'Every time I load one of those dang programs I get a Virus!'. I just shook my head and had a good laugh.

Speaking of I should really update avast...

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Rilder

Speaking of I should really update avast...

There is a new version out. I have mine update automatically.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Cant say I've ever felt the need for an AV program. I usually get me something free twice a year and scan the PC and believe it or not, I havent had viruses or high risk spyware on my PC in years.

At least none that your aware of. Werent you complaining of issues with your credit card recently? Might want to look into that.

My scans routinely find "high risk" trojans and other niceitys.

The only way to avoid malware / spyware is to not connect to the internet.... ever... and even then some commercial slips it in there so...

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

At least none that your aware of. Werent you complaining of issues with your credit card recently? Might want to look into that.

There's 0% chance that it would be virus related. The first case was the store's card reading somehow not replying back to it. And the second case was due to malfunction in the other end.

Besides, I could have every virus of the world on my PC and there'd be maybe a 0.00000000001% chance it would affect my bank account as the password to access changes everytime and there's no 2 identical passwords. The PWs also arent stored in anywhere on my PC, so.

[PeriscopeDepth]

I always hated Norton. How deep it hooked itself into your system always bothered me.

PD

[kiwi_2005]

Ive hated all Nortons up till 360. When i tried 360 i was blown away at how good this program is seriously it was made with the intention of set and forget those who can't be bothered with the setting up but want to know they are safe on the net. 360 when doing a deep scan is the best ive seen only one that comes close would be Bitdefender SS 2009. Bitdefender has one fault its a hogger on your pc cause it checks everything continuously so bad for gaming. One annoying thing about 360 is when you turned something off the taskbar icon would make sure you knew about it and turn red plus it would warn you every chance it got. That really pi$$ed me off, I hate software that warn me of the choices i make, I know what im doing so pi$$ off with your warnings.

Was going to try out Nortons gamers edition antivirus suppose to be better than Eset nod32 when it comes to system hogging. But this freeware i have on is good enough, at least it doesn't warn me when ive made changes!

[AVGWarhawk]

That is one reason I left Norton on my daughters computer. SET IT AND FORGET IT. My girls surf the net and play on line community type games. I do not have to babysit the AV program. Norton keeps itself up to date automatically. It worked like a champ with the trojan issue last week. Currently I have Avast on my machine. It also is set and forget. Once Norton runs out on my daughters machine I will install Avast. It is a good AV and it is free.

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by PeriscopeDepth

I always hated Norton. How deep it hooked itself into your system always bothered me.

PD

for all pratical purposes Norton is a virus.
I think the last version of Norton I had the courage to install on my computer was around '99 or 2000. After that no more Norton, went with Kaspersky and lately with Avira Antivir. Its great, it doesn't bring your pc to a halt, it installs and disinstalls without problems and keeps everything in order. What more could you want ?

[Task Force]

Im useing Avaira free antivirus... and Mcafee which are ISP provides for free... not a bad idea to have 2 runing at once...

[PeriscopeDepth]

Originally Posted by goldorak

for all pratical purposes Norton is a virus.
I think the last version of Norton I had the courage to install on my computer was around '99 or 2000. After that no more Norton, went with Kaspersky and lately with Avira Antivir. Its great, it doesn't bring your pc to a halt, it installs and disinstalls without problems and keeps everything in order. What more could you want ?

I've heard great things about Kapersky. I am cheap and use Avast! (on my Vista install, nothing extra running on my new Fedora install ). I could get Mcaffe free through my ISP but haven't bothered. I really don't do any "high risk" surfing.

PD

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by PeriscopeDepth

I've heard great things about Kapersky. I am cheap and use Avast! (on my Vista install, nothing extra running on my new Fedora install ). I could get Mcaffe free through my ISP but haven't bothered. I really don't do any "high risk" surfing.

PD

Well since Avira Antivir is free I guess I'm cheap too.
No point in buying a commercial antivirus when free alternatives are as good and have little to no limitations.