Norton AntiVirus 2006 or McAfee VirusScan 2006?

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I use AVG free addition. Norton and some other programs use alot of memory while they are running in the background.

Avg is great. I just bought a new computer and has McAfee as a trial for 90 days I am using it for now but will go back to AVG so simple to use and does a very good job!

I downloaded AVG to try, but there was just something about it that i didn't like...don't know why...how long did you use it ? How Good was it REALLY ..thanks ..lp

Neither one. Both are too bloated and too intrusive. Try Kaspersky AV or NOD32 both rated as No 1 or 2 by independant rating labs.

Of the 2 choices, McAfee or Norton, the answer depends on your use. McAfee is first to protect against viruses (nearly a week ahead of Norton in many cases), has a better spyware catcher, but with a much larger overhead then Norton.
Norton (Symantec) believes that their bread and butter is from the Home users and would rather have speed then better protection. This would be very accurate for those Dial-up users that got on - got what they needed - and got off the internet. If you are one of those users then by all means Norton is a great choice.
McAfee on the other hand focuses on the business clients, and fluffs up a special addition for home. You benifit from their hyper security, but lose a bit more speed and money.
For us - its a cost on support. McAfee has the least amount of time/$ spent supporting machines with there product, while Norton is a regular cash flow. Here is an e-mail about W32.Sober.X@mm!zip that only plagued Norton users. Names were removed for fairness. Notice that it took them 25 days on a Corporate Gold Support contract to answer, and on phone support they did less.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 3:10 PM
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Subject: Re: W32.Sober.X@mm!zip


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On "Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:17:29 +0000 (UTC), Bradley P. Bumsted wrote:

> Configuration Information:
> Product: Symantec Mail Security
>
> The mail security 4.6 is not stopping the virus from reachig the end
> users. However the desktop (10.0) is catching it.
> Last Live update for 4.6 was 11/26 Rev. 3 How do we addres this?

Symantec Technical Support:

The definition set should be updated by now, and should be able to remove the virus infection. Additionally, it is important to understand that the sober.x virus uses its own SMTP engine and can therefore bypass exchange and mail security altogether. Blocking against zips will prevent it from getting to you.

Best Regards,

Enterprise Support Technician
Symantec Corporation

Do you mean the computer resources required for day-to-day virus protection, or the resources required during a virus scan?

What I had heard recently was that, in both the day-to-day and the system scan, Norton was the larger load.

That, combined with the much cheaper OEM price of McAfee (compared to that of Norton), is making me lean towards their solution. As well, from the sounds of your e-mail, McAfee seems to have better customer support.

I have been a Norton Systemwork?s user for many years. However, I am in the process of dropping all Norton products. I have found their support is difficult to use in a timely manner; takes day?s to get an answer to problems. The other reason is, they have really have increased their renewal price; costs near the original price and you must purchase one copy for each PC that you own and I own three PC so the cost to continue upgrading is way out of line since the changes are minor per release. Oh, they add new features, but many of them, and I suspect that others may feel the same way, will not need or use those features.

Because I am a current user of Comcast for my Internet connections, Comcast has joined with McAfee and as long as you?re an active customer to can use a copy of McAfee?s virus software and this is saving me money. I have installed McAfee?s virus software on my three PC?s and so far everything is working just fine. I might add that it picked up a Trojan that Norton?s virus program missed. I have also started using System Mechanic 6 by iolo that will replace the functions of Systemworks and I might add, does a better job and cost less.

Just had to reply to this. I had this (eTrust) for several years on my machine, running Windows 98. and guess what, I was soooooooo infected that I eventually had to get a new machine. I use McAfee my self and no problems so far

no wonder Tiger irect is practically giving away CA Internet Suites when you buy a broadband router !!!lp

As I mention in a later post, I have been using Norton's 2003 edition of their anti virus software on an old, underpowerd computer for three years. The machine has half the ram you recommend, but has worked just as well as I've expected.

Of course, I have always been doing my system scans during times that I would not need to use the computer, but I expect a virus scan to be a system hog. Is that the wrong attitude? I've never before experienced any kind of system scan that doesn't slow down the computer; virus, defrag, and xp search funtion, all take a long time and slow the comp.

Now that I'm using a higher-powered computer, perhaps I can consider running more demanding applications while doing those activities.

or at least, no more so than most other applications. I'm referring more to the permanent system overhead imposed by Norton's processes running in the background. On a 256MB machine, Norton Internet Security 2005 is just too painful to run the whole suite. It adds a hefty chunk to boot-time as well.

NAV 2003 (without the rest of the suite), I don't think we used that one, but based on experience with '02 and '05, it would probably be tolerable on a 256MB machine, though there would still be a palpable slowdown.

XTGold has been much improved on-I had a registered version of the old XtreeGold.

Go to this website-download it and try it.
http://www.ztree.com/

If you loved Xtree you will love Ztree

None of the above!!!
Both are bilge water!!!

The best is either PC-Cillian by Trend-Micro or
E-Trust by Computer Associates (CA).

All the others are a waste!

Bad Apples

I've been trying out AVG combination anti-virus and firewall. It seems to be working fine...and the cost is less than Norton/Zone AlarmPro.
I'm no computer expert, when I say it's working ok I really assuming it is. I wondered if anyone else is using this version of AVG and what you think.

the latest version of Norton2006 seems to have many of the features of the old firewall I used last year and discarded, simply because it slowed down my computer, it really didnt block anything that it was supposed to, and I still needed three other anti spyware programs to block what Norton was supposed to be doing anyway. So what was the point?

I think a lot has to do with the way you use your own computer, where you go on the web, and what programs and sites you access or download that could cause problems. Game sites, porn sites (not that anyone here ever ever goes there no no), animated graphics sites, places that have a huge number of ads going on all over the screen, blink blink flash flash.

And I dont think it's safe to depend on just one program any longer, and expect it to do everything. With compatible "other' programs such as hijackthis and spybot, you're pretty much covered in a nice overlapping way when you use an anti virus program as well.

No program is perfect, is the bottom line. Only what works for the way you use the computer.

so far, the trial is almost up so I'll have to buy it or go back to the freebe....I like the combo part, both firewall and antivirus...uses less resources. I just downloaded and saved AdawareSE Firewall, free version, I haven't used it but I think I'll start a thread see what people think of it. The spyware is excellent.

yeah....norton and mcafee both lag your computer...mac or pc
-Norton keeps giving you these annoying security pop-=ups saying that the program has automatically changed the settings for a program and....
-McAfee does the same thing but nobody really cares...it just keeps getting really annoying when you gotta click continue what i was doing every 15-20 seconds

AVG (the free version) is good enough

it works and doesnt lag you computer.....plus its small in disk space so you dont need a lot of hard disk space


GO 4 AVG FREE VERSION/PAID VERSION

AVG may have worked well, but I CONNOT REMOVE IT from my computer using control panel, add or remove program and it's really messing my email program up.

Have you turned off the AVG components in MANAGE ADD-ONS? This may cause some of the grief you have encountered. Once these are turned off, then go into windows explorer and find the uninstall in the Grisoft folder of program files. Make sure you have diabled the active component in system tray. Once all done simple run your favorite registry cleaner and move on to next AV.

well 1st of all you need to go to ctrl+alt+delete
and close ALL of the avg programs/processes
there is a process under the system registry so it comes up as a process under the system when you sort it by user

then go to control panel
-add remove programs and remove it.....DUHHHH