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Title: Norton or McAffee?
Post by: Ike 2K# on March 04, 2004, 02:01:58 AM

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

Title: Norton or McAffee?
Post by: Stoned Gecko on March 04, 2004, 02:13:24 AM

NOD32 (http://www.nod32.com)

Title: Norton or McAffee?
Post by: Kaz on March 04, 2004, 02:55:03 AM

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

Title: Norton or McAffee?
Post by: Xjazz on March 04, 2004, 04:19:37 AM

I have Norton and Im happy withit.

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

Title: Norton or McAffee?
Post by: Stoned Gecko on March 04, 2004, 04:28:52 AM

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.

Title: SystemSuite
Post by: mudder on March 04, 2004, 05:41:16 AM

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

Title: Norton or McAffee?
Post by: Eagler on March 04, 2004, 07:11:29 AM

NAV

Title: Re: SystemSuite
Post by: Roscoroo on March 04, 2004, 09:11:55 AM

Quote

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 )

Title: virus infected emails
Post by: mudder on March 04, 2004, 03:48:21 PM

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?:rolleyes:

Title: Norton or McAffee?
Post by: Halo on March 04, 2004, 04:18:02 PM

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

Title: Norton or McAffee?
Post by: Kaz on March 04, 2004, 04:24:42 PM

Norton Internet Security is also very good(includes NAV)

Title: Norton or McAffee?
Post by: BB Gun on March 04, 2004, 11:52:21 PM

I like my PC Cillin (http://www.trendmicro.com/en/home/us/personal.htm)...

BB

Title: Norton or McAffee?
Post by: capt. apathy on March 05, 2004, 01:07:06 AM

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

Title: Norton or McAffee?
Post by: Replicant on March 05, 2004, 10:08:38 AM

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.

Title: Norton or McAffee?
Post by: humble on March 05, 2004, 11:08:25 AM

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

Title: Norton or McAffee?
Post by: save on March 08, 2004, 09:25:10 AM

I can recommend both pccillin and trend micro's antivirus.

Title: Norton or McAffee?
Post by: FOGOLD on March 08, 2004, 10:37:15 AM

I like Trend Micro Internet Security. The firewall is effective and doesn't
seem to cause too much grief except with home network. I have to enable NetBios to get the network to work. Don't like leaving NetBios enabled all the time.

Title: Norton or McAffee?
Post by: JB66 on March 09, 2004, 07:14:37 AM

Between the two...Norton.  Macaffee is a resourse hog.  Plus, almost every system we have had in the shop over the last year were infected with viruses not caught by Macaffee.
     The best AV software for the consumer and small businesses I've seen is Panda Antivirus.  During in house testing with the different AV products, Panda was nearly flawless.
     Just my "opinion" however.