Kelli said:
spodosaurus;840184 said:
Gabriel Knight wrote:-
Hi all I have Norton Internet Security 2005 but I want to update my
antivirus to prehaps Norton 2009 from ebay.
http://tinyurl.com/6mvvhz
What dose everyone think in terms of is it good to use and if there is
better out there, I dont mind much if it uses a bit of pc resources.
Strange thing is my Norton 2005 version seems to be on a never pay
loop, it
keeps moving the renew date to the next year and I havnt paid a cent
since
2005 to today I have asked the tech team at Norton about this but I
asked
for a phone number to speak to someone but all 4 times the number was
wrong,
I dont want to get stung with 4 years of paying subscription so I want
to
get rid of it. Dose this happen alot or am I just lucky?
Thanks
GK
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ESET security suite is quite good (includes NOD antivirus).
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Hello,
I came across your post and I'm interested in helping; I work with
Symantec's PR Team. Have you tried going on Norton's Product Review
Page where you can get an indepth review of NIS 09' and decide whether
it is suitable for your computer needs.
http://www.symantec.com/norton/internet-security.
If you have any more questions I am happy to help.
kellij[at]carryonpr
The AV-comparatives site does comparisons. For some
reason, the TrendMicro product isn't on their list.
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/comparatives.html
There is a web summary, and the PDF version gives some
details of the testing.
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2008_08.php
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse/report19.pdf
It is interesting, that the testing benchmarks on-demand
testing ("scan my entire disk now"), and provides a chart.
But the guy doing the testing, is still trying to figure out
a good test of the impact of these tools, on desktop
performance.
One thing that annoyed me, was a substantial increase in
the time it takes "Disk Cleanup" to run, when an AV is
enabled. That would be an example of a corner case,
where the AV normally doesn't burden a system too much,
but when it decides to scan each file "touched" by
something like Disk Cleanup, the effect on performance
is pronounced (I have to walk away from the computer...)
One other point I'd like to make about AV tools,
is their perceived behavior can change through the
period of your subscription. I have Kaspersky on
my other computer, and after a certain update of
theirs, which changed the scan engine, I started
getting an immense number of dialogs on the screen.
It turned me into a "click monkey", just like having
UAC in Vista. I went online, with the chat based
tech support, and the response I got was to
click the little box on the dialog that says to
do the same thing the next time. (So basically, at
least for that tech support person, such a behavior
was a "feature".) Unfortunately, there are some
executables, which change each time they're run,
such as Windows Update, so when I run Windows Update,
I'm doing that "click monkey" thing again.
As a consequence of the complex behavior of these products,
and the potential for them to virtually brick the computer
on a moments notice, I cannot see an objective way to
offer advice on them. Some of them, simply end up
"owning" your computer, for better or worse. And
different people can see different behaviors.
All you need to do, is go to the tech support forum
for the products, and see just how much damage
the tools can do in the worst case.
And removing the products can be equally annoying.
It is a lot like asking a person to choose between
tuberculosis, Ebola, or flesh eating disease
Paul
