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Chili

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I've been a long time and happy customer of Norton Anti Virus, however due to an incredible bungling and the poor follow up customer service to my attempted subscription renewal I have decided I will not support Symantec any longer.

I'm looking for recommendations to replace my Norton AV. I will need a product that either allows the product to be installed on multiple PC's or available with a 3 user licence like Norton. I don't have the time to deal with virus issues and reformatting pc's so I want something decent that can do a comparable job to Norton.

Any happy users of other AV products out there?

 

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My company uses Trend Micro. I just looked at there site and Bam.. Right there it says home protection for up to 3 Home PC's... www.trendmicro.com/en/home/us/home.htm
We always have all the updates and never have any issues..

 

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Chili said:

I've been a long time and happy customer of Norton Anti Virus, however due to an incredible bungling and the poor follow up customer service to my attempted subscription renewal I have decided I will not support Symantec any longer.

I'm looking for recommendations to replace my Norton AV. I will need a product that either allows the product to be installed on multiple PC's or available with a 3 user licence like Norton. I don't have the time to deal with virus issues and reformatting pc's so I want something decent that can do a comparable job to Norton.

Any happy users of other AV products out there?

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I started using AVG by Grisoft a couple of years ago.

Works just fine for me.

The main reason I choose it over many others was that it has a free version and that it doesn't kill your system when it's not doing a scan.

I found that Norton, McAfee and others tended to use quite a bit of resources just waiting for something to do.

AVG is currently running 4 processes on my machine, which are using a total of less than 4mb of ram. I'd consider that acceptable.

Worth a look!

 

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Indy, AVG was my first thought as I knew they were freeware (which apparently is ending in Jan). After a bit of searching I found several reports of it missing some very basic infections which has me concerned. Wish I could find some product reviews testing against a certain amount of infections from a trusted source.

 

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I've tried Norton, AVG, Zone Alarm, McAfee, Avast, and Avira. Presently I function with Avira AntiVir Personal Edition and Windows Defender. Both can be obtained for free:
http://www.free-av.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx (Requires a valid copy of Windows)

Both programs update daily and I never had any problems with them and I do visit lots of websites for cracked software and games which contain enormous quantities of spyware and viruses. Ironically, Norton is the one I hate the most. It takes up lots of power from the PC and allows access to viruses. I've went through lots of formating with Norton. Avast is pretty good too, but Avira is excellent.

Hope this helped :cool:

 

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Chili said:

Indy, AVG was my first thought as I knew they were freeware (which apparently is ending in Jan). After a bit of searching I found several reports of it missing some very basic infections which has me concerned. Wish I could find some product reviews testing against a certain amount of infections from a trusted source.

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What you read about the free version ending in Jan is a miscommunication.. version 7.1Free is ending in Jan. the new version 7.5 is still free, and will be available.

I've never had it miss anything, and I am far from a careful internet user.

Plus I use it on a corp network that I manage, with users who don't know jack about being careful.

Not a single infection in 2 years.

 

Okiewan

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I'm looking for recommendations to replace my Norton AV.

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Simple. OS-X

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I have used the free AGV as well for 3-4 years now with no problems.

 

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We have used AVGFree in our office for the last two years and have had no problems with it.

 

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I use Stop Sign from eAcceleration. I switched to them when I switched to Mozilla. Between the Norton joke AV protection and IE, my machine had a couple of real nasty viruses/problems. Stop Sign is not free, but it has also found viruses that totally got by my Norton AV software. Machine has been free from viruses/pop-ups/spyware for a couple of years now

 

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I have trend micro and like it. I tried several times to download the the free AVG. But everytime I tried to install it, the pc said it was corrupted and to get a fresh copy. :(

 

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Thanks for the different leads fellas, a couple of products that I hadn't even heard of before. I'll have to start doing some more research and make a decision within the next week before my Norton expires.

 

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ClamWin Free AntiVirus. The database gets updated daily and the program runs a full scan every day.

 

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Just installed and ran AVG. Found a trojan horse McAfee and everything else could not find. thanks for the heads' up :cool: :ride:

 

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Pretty sure no matter what you end up using...it'll find stuff that some others may not...and let other things go by that others would not..

On a related note I myself have made the virus free claim before and have thought about that statement enough to realize that what a person really means is that they can't find any virus's and their AV program doesn't find them. Not quite the same as positively not having a virus.