Symantec Norton Anti-Virus -- good? bad?

Mason C wrote:
> My Noton anti-virus is about to expire.
> (By accident I got it free a year ago.)
>
> Should I renew? I sense dislike for Norton here but don't know why.
>
> Mason C running private PC politely

Norton and McAfee had their heyday years ago. But seems lately the two
of them cause more issues than the solve. Or at least you read about
it. I got a next to free copy one year and just about choked the
computer. You seem to have no issue now, and if you are not getting a
new version of software, just extending the license, it may still
continue to work just as well. If you've had no viruses, then maybe its
doing its job, that or you practice safe surfing.

Some of the complaints may also be the combination of applications. So
its hard to say. I run AVG8.0 and like it, but others have complained.
So you see, there's no accounting for problems. Its a gamble. Yes,
you can take an educated guess, but that's about all it is.

The first thing I do for my computer clients is to uninstall the bloated and
expensive Norton AV which tries to take over your computer. I then replace
it with AVG free which is easy to use and costs nothing and is better than
Norton in several ways. I should add, that I have had no trouble with the
latest AVG v8 free version as one or two people seem to have had.

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"Mason C" <masoncXXX.DeleteThis@XXXfrontal-lobe.info> wrote in message
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> My Noton anti-virus is about to expire.
> (By accident I got it free a year ago.)
>
> Should I renew? I sense dislike for Norton here but don't know why.
>
> Mason C running private PC politely

Bud wrote:

> All that stuff found it's way on to my machine while on Norton's
> watch.

Well, there's a great testimonial! <lol>

> I'm running, all at the same time:
> AntiVir, AVG free 8,

Hopefully, you aren't running two *resident* apps at the same time. They
will surely conflict with each other (same as two firewalls). It's ok to
keep several on hand for *on-demand* scanning, but not full-time
running.

> Spybot S&D, Super Antispyware, and they all get along so far and
> unlike others, I've had no speed problem from any of them.

...so long as they aren't running at the same time, there should be no
problems.

An alternative to needing all those tools is to switch to an impervious
operating system. <g>

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-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Windows

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On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:37:11 -0700, Mason C wrote:

> My Noton anti-virus is about to expire.

Good!

> Should I renew?

No!

> I sense dislike for Norton here but don't know why.

Right, read other posts.

Then download and run the Norton Removal Tool
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039

Choose one (1):
Avira AntiVir® Personal - FREE Antivirus
http://www.free-av.com/
You may wish to consider removing the 'AntiVir Nagscreen'
http://www.elitekiller.com/files/disable_antivir_nag.htm
or
Free antivirus - avast! 4 Home Edition
It includes ANTI-SPYWARE protection, certified by the West Coast Labs
Checkmark process, and ANTI-ROOTKIT DETECTION based on the best-in class
GMER technology.
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
(Choose Custom Installation and under Resident
Protection, uncheck: Internet Mail and Outlook/Exchange.)
or
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
http://free.grisoft.com/
(Choose custom install and untick the email scanner plugin.)
or
ESET NOD32 Antivirus - Not Free
http://www.eset.com/
or
Kaspersky® Anti-Virus 7.0 - Not Free
http://www.kaspersky.com/homeuser

FYI
Why You Don't Need Your Anti-Virus Program to Scan Your E-Mail
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tutorials/email-scanning/index.htm

On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:01:22 -0500, sherwindu <sherwindu RemoveThis @comcast.net>
wrote:
> Really surprising that there are no conflicts between different anti-virus
> programs. That has not been my experience. Also, AVG free 8 runs
> ok on my Vista quad machine with 2 gig, but bogs down my Athlon
> 1.3 Gig machine with 500 meg. AVG 7.5 seemed to be less resource
> demanding, and certainly more user friendly.

From what I've been reading here, my machine should be crawling, but
it's not. When I installed all those I figured that I'd run them for a
while and see how it went and then turn off the ones that appeared to
be slowing me down, I haven't had to do that yet.
AMD 2700+, 1GB RAM, 1TB hard drives, XP Pro
I noticed that Norton is offering AV for Linux, is that really
necessary?