Norton or ZoneAlarm?

I don't believe that ZA Pro's anti-virus works the same way as other anti-virus applications. It monitors whether your existing AV is uptodate or not.

ZA's help file says this;

Antivirus Monitoring is available in ZoneAlarm, ZoneAlarm with Antivirus, ZoneAlarm Pro, and ZoneAlarm Security Suite.

Antivirus Monitoring is a secondary defense system that racks antivirus software you have installed on your computer and lets you know when that antivirus software is out-of-date or turned off. This secondary alerting system works as a back-up to your antivirus software's built-in warning and update system. Note that not all antivirus products are supported by this feature.

Most antivirus products include automatic updating, and alert you when your virus definition files become outdated.

So, in short, you need other anti-virus protection. If you do not want to go the whole hog and pay for Norton's, you could try AVG 7 Free version from http://www.grisoft.com

Good luck,

Mark

It's been a long time since I used Norton. I used to have Norton and BitDefender. Now I have BitDefender and ZoneLabs Security Suite.

BitDefender once found a virus that Norton missed. After exaustive invstigation, I discovered that Norton called it by a different name, and it had missed it!

This is strictly subjective, but I think ZoneLab Security Suite is great! It simply never misses, and eliminates the problem with no fuss.

I think both Norton and McAfee are error prone and I won't use either.

In my opinion, the best freeware combo you can get is ZoneAlarm (Not Pro, just as a firewall) and using Kaspersky Anti-Virus. Both are completely free and excellent ways to protect your computer!

-jatenate-

Hi all ,

IMHO Norton and Mcafee suck big time , I used them once and they sucked big time.

That's why I use Panda Platinum Internet Security 2005 today.

The firewall that is built in that one , is not that good , so I downloaded and installed ZoneAlarm again today. The Panda Firewall was a simple one , but it kept on giving errors or didn't load properly.

To answer your question : Norton and Mcafee suck big time , they are worthless to buy. ZoneAlarm is a good one, I use the free version.

But maybe that might change in the future , who knows.


Just stay away from Norton or Mcafee , that's the only good advice I can give you.


Greetings ,


Pcfreakske2000

NOD 32 has performed the best of any virusscanner ever in the virus bulletin test. It also has excellent heuristics that can catch new viruses well in advance of updates. In addition, it has extremely quick scan times and it has the smallest memory footprint of any anti virus I know of.

However, KAV is also an excellent choice. It has the best detection ( see http://www.av-comparatives.org) of all the antivirusses, except its heuristics is behind NOD by 30 % (so is every other antivirus ) The only problem with kaspersky is it does take up a bigger memory footprint, though not as bad as norton.

Antivir is a free antivirus that has the best detection of the free antiviruses and doesn't have a very large footprint. However, it doesn't have e-mail scanning so you will have to scan your e-mails manually.

These are the three av's I can reccomend for serving me faithfully for the past 5 years without 1 virus or computer problem.

T. Ward

As a tech that has worked on many computer one thing I found well lol Norton and Mcafee is junk. Even I had tried both and yes I caught viruses and trojans, Needless to say my Norton 2005 went into the garbage. Never been happier then with nod32, 100% detection rating and the fastest in scanning. Ok I'll even say this even avast free home edition stop a trojan that norton couldn't do, so yes I would recommend avast over them. About Zone alarms can't say much about it never tested it ah though did fix one computer that had that. So people out there try nod32 and maybe you'll find viruse and trojans that those other programs had missed.

Zone Alarm Pro is only a firewall and Norton Internet Security is a Full Service suite of Security related applications which include both Norton Anti-Virus and Norton Firewall plus much much more.I attempted to utilize NIS-PRO-2004 on my Dell Dimension 4300 Desk Top however when I changed my ISP-moving from Earthlink/DSL to Verizon/DSL-with MSN premium NIS was not able to properly monitor MSN incoming and outgoing mail while all the while being able to monitor incoming and outgoing mail at my verizon web site.It was the equal or at least it had all the rudiments of an incompatable relation,and indeed it did not take me long to uninstall NIS.For the record I think Norton Anti-Virus is excellent.However I did not take to long a time going first to the freeware ZoneAlarm Firewall to ZoneAlarm Pro to ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite.I found out first hand that ZoneAlarm anti-virus is first rate and if maybe you might guess it has discovered to date 6 separate files all coming in by MSN-Junk Mail that were infected and were put into quarantine.It has proven to be an out-standing suite and great anti-virus.I get prompted often by both Security at my security center and by ZoneAlarm to keep checking for updates and so on-It is an excellent suite with an excellent anti-virus.

and get Mcafee Antivirus. One of the best antivirus I have ever used, detected everything on this computer so far and I use that and the Mcafee firewall and I have no complaints whatsoever. Norton failed to detects several trojans on the computer many times.

lets say you have anti-virus program and its the same one you been using, you run a scan and bingo it finds a trojan or even a virus this where you the something to think about comes it. You should be asking yourself how it got there and why your anti-virus didn't stop from entering the first place. Remember a good anti-virus program shouldn't only just detect, it should also protect your computer from ever getting anything in the first place.

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