avast ftw tbh. Virus database has been updated

lol I love that thing lol

Quote from: bearEarly Norton stuff were good but now it sucks.

TBH then it was just better than the limited known competition.

Quote from: M3ta7h3adIts also the very first thing that crashes, dies, or just decides to disable certain parts of itself whenever an infection occurs.

Hasnt happened on my machine yet.

QuoteNorton is still crap. I know someone using 2006, yet they still have a crapload of viruses on their machine... why? "cause norton takes too long to scan".

I would suspect that if they have a crapload of viruses on their machine, they must be doing something else wrong, too.

Norton does find the viruses, right? Or am I misunderstanding you? And if they keep getting viruses - regardless of the software they use - then chances are its their mistake. (I dont want to pick a fight or anything, it is actually me trying to be helpful...)

QuoteMuch better products can be had out there for free imo, and if an exploit occurs in one that can disable it, it doesnt completely remove every single piece of security on your PC.

True, but as far as I understand the Norton Settings, its not really just one program, anyways.

bit of a necro there mate.

But in all honesty taking from an experience I endured recently, Norton 2006 on a computer of my mates, now this lad is doing a computer science degree, runs his own computer/it company, and is a network admin for quite a large solicitors firm.

Understandably, if something goes wrong with my computer I turn to him, and im no slouch at computers either.

4 Viruses at once, norton would refuse to open, and simply crash on his machine. AVG wouldnt load up after installing. The only piece of anti virus software that saved him was NOD32 after my recommendation.

Hes a massive advocate for norton, in fact its the only software he installs on new computer builds, or uses. On larger networks its symantec corporate. After his experience with it hes turned tail and now loves nod32.

The guy who said it took too long to scan had a point, if computer maintenance is made as unattractive as possible, people will not want to do it. It was updated, yet it didnt prevent the viruses from infecting his machine (same as with my classmate in uni above), and it took forever to complete a scan of his machine.

Avast!, ZoneAlarm, Spywareblaster and Spybot.

Cheers
Tongy

Quote from: M3ta7h3adIts also the very first thing that crashes, dies, or just decides to disable certain parts of itself whenever an infection occurs.

What can I say? Not on my PC it doesnt ...

QuoteNorton is still crap. I know someone using 2006, yet they still have a crapload of viruses on their machine... why? "cause norton takes too long to scan".

How does that work? Norton scans all the time, or is your acquaintance only running system scans occasionally? (As opposed to having stuff scanned directly at download.)

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Quote from: M3ta7h3adIts also the very first thing that crashes, dies, or just decides to disable certain parts of itself whenever an infection occurs.

What can I say? Not on my PC it doesnt ...

QuoteNorton is still crap. I know someone using 2006, yet they still have a crapload of viruses on their machine... why? "cause norton takes too long to scan".

How does that work? Norton scans all the time, or is your acquaintance only running system scans occasionally? (As opposed to having stuff scanned directly at download.)

Scroll up, and stop repeating yourself.

A gun to the head would never make me recommend Norton.

About the only package that I think is any good is Panda and the reviews dont take too kindly to it It has a few other things going for it though

But for free, Avast, ZA and spywareblaster/spybot is the best combination. AVG sucks bollocks nowadays, used to be alright but it is average at best these days.

Oh, and Norton sucks.... just to confirm.

Cheers
Tongy