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"It was a close race overall, but Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2011 took home the top prize with its excellent malware detection, blocking, and cleanup. BitDefender Antivirus Pro 2011 and G-Data AntiVirus 2011 round out the top three."
"It was a close race overall, but Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2011 took home the top prize with its excellent malware detection, blocking, and cleanup. BitDefender Antivirus Pro 2011 and G-Data AntiVirus 2011 round out the top three."
Norton must have come a long way since I used it last. In my experience Norton was a bloated pig that hoarded resources, didn't offer a free option and used the most annoying nag renewals I've ever seen.
Interesting they didn't bother reviewing MS Security Essentials. I've recently ditched Avast Free in favor of the MS option and have only good things to say. One extra huge bonus for MS Security Essentials is that I can install it on machines belonging to my computer illiterate relatives, and it doesn't give them nags and confusing upgrade notices...it just protects.
There are plenty of free options that when paired with Spybot for the occasional spyware purge, protect as well as the paid versions.
Norton must have come a long way since I used it last. In my experience Norton was a bloated pig that hoarded resources, didn't offer a free option and used the most annoying nag renewals I've ever seen.
Interesting they didn't bother reviewing MS Security Essentials. I've recently ditched Avast Free in favor of the MS option and have only good things to say. One extra huge bonus for MS Security Essentials is that I can install it on machines belonging to my computer illiterate relatives, and it doesn't give them nags and confusing upgrade notices...it just protects.
There are plenty of free options that when paired with Spybot for the occasional spyware purge, protect as well as the paid versions.
Norton 2009 was a recode from the ground up. It (and later versions) are much lighter than previous versions. I'm not saying it's the lightest or even the best, but it's definately a huge improvement.
I use Norton personally, only because I get it free from my ISP.
One thing I've always been behind on is security (I know, I know).
I didn't really start using virus protection on the regular until MSE.
Norton, as another poster stated was a hog. Not only that, PCs in general were slower and thus had to cope with something running in the background on say, 512MB to 1G of RAM all on 5400RPM drives; I never got in the habit of running proactively. Rather I'd just do a manual registry scan once and a while.
That being said my older computers were infected to the max, albeit nothing bad really happened.
Today, I'm protected with MSE, router Firewalls, higher levels of encryption on my wireless signal, watch the sites and links I click on, don't open attachments, use complex passwords and things like TrueCrypt for important data and occasionally things like Glary Utilities, to keep things up to speed... yadda yadda...
However I'm dreadfully worried about keyloggers, the maturity of phishing sites and the like (I'm paranoid about URL shorteners these days). Even if you have the best protection in the world, a few mistakes can send your computer to the shop, or even jeopardize your personal info.
Norton 2009 was a recode from the ground up. It (and later versions) are much lighter than previous versions. I'm not saying it's the lightest or even the best, but it's definately a huge improvement.
They had no where to go but up, I don't think it could have gotten any worse than it was a few years ago. I still won't touch it due to the problems I've had to deal with on my clients machines that run it, but nice to know it's improving.
One of the criticisms I have with Norton is they cooperate with the FBI (Magic Lantern)....
So guess who's trojan's are ignored when scanning with Norton?
More software makers than you think, apparently. I haven't found a complete list anywhere.
So to keep this topic on an even keel...
"The FBI confirmed the active development of Magic Lantern, a keylogger intended to obtain passwords to encrypted e-mail and other documents during criminal investigations. Magic Lantern was first reported in the media by Bob Sullivan of MSNBC on 20 November 2001 and by Ted Bridis of the Associated Press.[27][28] The FBI intends to deploy Magic Lantern in the form of an e-mail attachment. When the attachment is opened, it installs a trojan horse on the suspect's computer, which is activated when the suspect uses PGP encryption, often used to increase the security of sent e-mail messages. When activated, the trojan will log the PGP password, which allows the FBI to decrypt user communications.[29][30]Symantec and other major antivirus vendors have whitelisted the Magic Lantern trojan, rendering their antivirus products, including Norton AntiVirus, incapable of detecting it."
They had no where to go but up, I don't think it could have gotten any worse than it was a few years ago. I still won't touch it due to the problems I've had to deal with on my clients machines that run it, but nice to know it's improving.
Were your clients home users? Norton really has no place on business computers.
That doesn't mean millions of business users aren't running Home editions of Windows and consumer version of Norton, McCrappy, etc.
Fair enough.
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