Norton or McAffee?

[Ike 2K#]

Which of these anti-wirus software give customers the most up-to-date "definitions" to keep our PCs safe?

[Stoned Gecko]

NOD32

[Kaz]

Heyyyyy Nod looks good! anyway norton does a very good job of getting updates to you sometimes twice a day!

[Xjazz]

I have Norton and Im happy withit.

Get a router too and your firewall will have much less a workload.

[Stoned Gecko]

There are times my NOD updates 3 times a day. It checks for updates every hour. It's not a resource hog unlike NAV or McAfee. I'd say try all of them.

[mudder]

http://www.v-com.com/product/ss_ind.html

This seems to have every feature anyone would need. It helped me in tweeking my new system.
Don't know about update rate comparisons

[Eagler]

NAV

[Roscoroo]

Originally posted by mudder
http://www.v-com.com/product/ss_ind.html

This seems to have every feature anyone would need. It helped me in tweeking my new system.
Don't know about update rate comparisons

It uses Pc-cillins Virus definitions .

Currently there a battle of the virus write/rewriters going on ... they are changing the current one 3 plus times a day .

you may have also noticed that the internet has been having problems as of late ( These guys need to be hunted dwn )

[mudder]

In the last two weeks Road Runner has been intercepting three or four infected emails a day to my account. Before this one or two a year. Who are these virus writers? I would like to understand what makes them tic. Are they untouchable or do they ever get  the stuffing knocked out of them?

[Halo]

I like Norton, and recommend the suite Norton SystemWorks to expedite the endless crap buildup cleanout.

[Kaz]

Norton Internet Security is also very good(includes NAV)

[BB Gun]

I like my PC Cillin...

BB

[capt. apathy]

I've been using norton for about 7 years (wow that was a while ago).  and as long as you keep it upto date it catches everything.  

the only problem I've had is that in my last version, the 'live-update' quit working,  it would say it ran but the deffinition date would never change so I got about 40 days behind in my deffinitions.  after skiping live-update and using the intelegent updater page, a full system scan found a few trojans that my kid had downloaded.

the newest version also checks for spyware on the full system scan(although ad-aware still usually finds one or 2 norton missed).

the live-update, can be set to automatic or you can just manually do it if your good at remembering to (thats how I do it as I don't need to give up any resources to a schedualler). anyway, new deffinitions come out once a week (usually wednesday) and any time a new serious threat is found.

if you skip the live-update and go the inteligent update route. you have to D/L a file and run it manually but those deffinitions are updated almost every day.


btw- I'm fairly sure Chairboy still works for Norton

[Replicant]

I've used NAV for about 3 or 4 years now mostly because when I had McAfee I found it reduced my PC performance by about 40%.  I've since stuck with Norton.

[humble]

Actually you have a bunch of other options that are equal or better...and 1 is free. I've used AVG for years and never had a virus problem.

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php

Another great freeware product is hijack this....great spyware tool

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html