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Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: Maverick on March 09, 2006, 11:45:43 AM: I guess I'm really "spamming" the tech forum lately. :)

My McAfee has just expired. I am a bit less than happy with their product and the way it seems to really clutter up my system. Is Norton any better for anti virus control? I will have to decide soon which to buy. I'd appreciate your thoughts on which works best and is a better buy.

Mav

Up to my armpits in 'puter gators in Louisiana!
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: straffo on March 09, 2006, 01:26:29 PM: err ... Kaspersky or AVAST :)
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: ClevMan on March 09, 2006, 02:02:10 PM: I have AVAST, and it works really well... You can download a free home edition. but you have to renew it every year. Norton is probably the best, but as with the best, you will have to pay for it.
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: Bizman on March 09, 2006, 02:12:09 PM: Renewing every 14 months after getting a reminding e-mail isn't too bad, IMO. Compared to many other registrations they only ask for a valid e-mail address to send the code to, name (any name will do;) ), country (for statistics, I suppose) and an agreement tab that you aren't using it for business purposes. Highly recommended! Modificable, multilanguage, lightweight and -best of all - free.

Besides, absolutely no security program is 100% reliable.
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: JB66 on March 09, 2006, 06:23:50 PM: McCaffee is a virus...Norton is ok...AVAST is Great, especially considering the price. "Free"
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: llama on March 09, 2006, 06:40:06 PM: NONE OF THE ABOVE.

These days, I prefer the free version of AVG. Download it at free.grisoft.com.

-Llama
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: Maverick on March 09, 2006, 06:54:00 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Bizman
Renewing every 14 months after getting a reminding e-mail isn't too bad, IMO. Compared to many other registrations they only ask for a valid e-mail address to send the code to, name (any name will do;) ), country (for statistics, I suppose) and an agreement tab that you aren't using it for business purposes. Highly recommended! Modificable, multilanguage, lightweight and -best of all - free.

Besides, absolutely no security program is 100% reliable.

Bizman, which one were you referring to?
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: Eagler on March 09, 2006, 09:20:21 PM: most corps use Norton
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: Pongo on March 10, 2006, 09:03:58 PM: I have norton, they have 3 license packs too if you have multi pcs.
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: DAVENRINO on March 10, 2006, 11:25:54 PM: I also like AVG Free. No problems in 3 years on 3 boxes and I get as many liscences as I want for the same price - FREE!
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: Maverick on March 11, 2006, 01:23:28 PM: Gents,

Thank you very much for the link and advice on AVG. I downloaded it today and deleted McAfee from my system.
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: Ghosth on March 12, 2006, 06:49:09 AM: Smart move!

AVG user here for 3 years. Very happy camper.
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: x0847Marine on March 12, 2006, 03:06:06 PM: My vote goes to Avast.
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: Brooke on March 12, 2006, 04:09:25 PM: I use a lot of Norton and McAfee (including Norton corporate stuff at work). I go back and forth between them depending on which is the most obnoxious software (in terms of being a pain in the neck for running games, putting in mutiple pop ups frequently, etc.). Their relative obnoxiousness changes version to version, with some years Norton being more obnoxious and some years McAfee being more obnoxious. Right now, I judge Norton to be much more obnoxious and infuriating to work with than McAfee, so I have switched to McAfee for my home computer. I'm reasonably satisfied with McAfee, although neither of them is close to ideal in my opinion.
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: JB66 on March 13, 2006, 04:22:55 PM: See...I told you McCaffee was a virus.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,187702,00.html

Makes you wonder how they test their stuff before it's released.
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: Brooke on March 13, 2006, 10:24:35 PM: They all have a releases here and there with problems, which are then fixed in a day or two. The last one that was a problem for Norton, about one month ago, was a severe vulnerability to exploits that could show up via e-mail. The lesser-known antivirus programs likely have just as many occasional bugs, but they don't have enough market share for the media to bother finding out about it and writing articles about it.
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: RAIDER14 on March 15, 2006, 08:58:26 PM: McAfee works good
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: gnubee on March 16, 2006, 05:22:34 PM: Personally I like my Trend Micro PC-cillin...
Its easy to use, reasonably priced, and offers great protection.
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: Grits on March 16, 2006, 06:43:09 PM: I also use Trend Micro PC-cillin and have for two years with zero complaints, but I will probably go to AVG when my next subscription expires in June just because of the price.
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: FT_Animal on March 19, 2006, 01:16:48 AM: Norton is a over-programmed lead weight resource hog. It's become rediculous. IMO ;-)

I would personally never use Norton software on any gaming machine, or wireless network. If you use Linksy's routers the first thing a tech will do is tell you to remove it, not disable this or that, remove it completely.
Mcafee is better then norton, but again, for a gaming machine it's stil a bit of a resource hog. I'd turn any and all off while gaming anyway

There are plenty of free programs out there that work just as well, if not better. AVG is a good example.

2 cents
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: RAIDER14 on March 19, 2006, 01:23:07 AM: :mad: :furious :O Norton makes your Comp >>EXTRA<< SLOW
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: Roscoroo on March 19, 2006, 05:20:46 AM: vcom's Fixit utilities for 4 yrs now .

fixit 5 is expiring this month and im grabin fix it 6

bolth 4 and 5 never messed with my gameplay at all , they use trendmicro deffinition files ,and have tons of great little programs in it for troubleshooting , tuning, stress testing hardware, registry edit/defrag, and other goodies .
well worth the 29.00-39.00 investment and you can use it on all your pc's without having to buy more then one or multi lic's.

its saved me hundreds of times .

that along with adaware and hijack this .. its a great combo

I'll update this info when i get fixit 6 next week .
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: Halo on March 22, 2006, 08:44:00 PM: I relied on Norton virus protection via SystemWorks for years until release ... 2003 I think, or maybe 2004.

My older SystemWorks virus protection was running out of support from Norton, so before buying the latest version I fortunately did a lot research on the Internet. I found so many complaints about Norton SystemWorks that I switched to McAfee (free with AOL) and have been happy with that for several years.
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: RAIDER14 on March 22, 2006, 10:27:22 PM: so McAfee is the better 1:aok
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: Maverick on March 22, 2006, 11:20:58 PM: I disagree that McAfee is really the better one.

My experiance:
It would not program to update as specified in the program. It would randomly update no matter what I set in the preferances.

It would reset the registry after an update. I had to prune it more than once as it repeated the same settings and slowed the system down running the program multiple times even without a scan in progress.

It seemed to be remarkably transparent to infections. I would have to run a scan more than once to find the infections.

Doing an uninstall did not remove the program. It stayed hidden then appeared again after a few reboots.

Tech support was neither helpful nor easy to deal with.
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on March 23, 2006, 04:08:09 AM: On free av I prefer avast as it has also spyware protection features.

Paid side Nod32 is the best.
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: Brooke on April 30, 2006, 03:10:41 AM: As I talked about previously, I've used McAfee and Norton over the years depending on which is least obnoxious. I judged McAfee least obnoxious currently, but really, I don't like either that much. They are either too bloated (causing long boot times or long times to launch Outlook -- as is the case right now with McAfee for me) or too obnoxious (pop ups all the freaking time when I really just want it to shut up and do its thing without bombing me out of whatever full-screen app I might be in at the moment -- as is the case with Norton).

I currently am trying Avast. With Avast (compared to McAfee), my computer boots MUCH more quickly and Outlook launches MUCH more quickly. Avast happens to be free, which is a plus.
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: Stone on April 30, 2006, 07:25:54 AM: AVAST

It has an interesting option to scan at boot, just like how the checkdisk on c: works. It scans for viruses before the GUI loads.

Seems like a very smart funktion.

Have not noticed any problems whit avast. For firewall I use the XP plus router (linux box).

And oh yeah, it is FREE :aok
Title: McAfee or Norton
Post by: Brenjen on April 30, 2006, 08:50:46 AM: ESET NOD32 is the best out of the several I have used; ( I've used pc-cillin, norton, panda, mcaffee,avg etc. ) it is quiet & in the background, updates frequently (everyday) & isn't a system hog. There is one that just came out in the US recently called Bit-Defender that's supposed to be good too. But I just can't say enough good things about NOD32...it's the perfect AV prog.