(Msg. 9) Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:05 am
Post subject: Re: Avast or Norton. Who should I trust? [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: alt>comp>anti-virus (more info?)
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:11:06 -0700 (PDT), Bill <blevins DeleteThis @inbox.com>
wrote:
>On Oct 28, 8:49 pm, "Little Charlie" <littlechar... DeleteThis @bellsouth.net>
>wrote:
>
>> NAV 2009 is very light on resources and very speedy as well as testing very high in detection and cleaning.
>
>NAV has decent detection, but it's still bloatware. The exception
>being their Corporate version.
>
Reports from other sources also suggest that the 2009 version of
Norton has been improved dramatically regarding resource use and
speed.
(Msg. 10) Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:03 am
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On Oct 29, 6:22 am, Wolf Kirchmeir <wolf....DeleteThis@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> FWIW, I installed NAV some years ago because it came on the mobo disk.
>
> Never again.
There's a lot of people that feel that way, Charles Johnson is not one
of them.
I did use the Corporate version a couple of years back and it was
pretty impressive. It was like Norton for adults. Why they just
couldn't make their commercial version as good I do not know.
(Msg. 11) Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:22 am
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Little Charlie wrote:
[...]
>
>The entire NAV d/l is less then 50mb.
I wouldn't call that a "small footprint."
FWIW, I installed NAV some years ago because it came on the mobo disk.
(Msg. 12) Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:01 am
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Bill wrote:
> On Oct 29, 6:22 am, Wolf Kirchmeir <wolf... DeleteThis @sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>> FWIW, I installed NAV some years ago because it came on the mobo disk.
>>
>> Never again.
>
> There's a lot of people that feel that way, Charles Johnson is not one
> of them.
>
> I did use the Corporate version a couple of years back and it was
> pretty impressive. It was like Norton for adults. Why they just
> couldn't make their commercial version as good I do not know.
>
>
Maybe because then they couldn't justify soaking the corps for all
those extra dollars.
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