Norton 360 - Replacement suggestions?
 

Hi,
When I bought wifes PC about a year ago it came bundled with Norton 360. Our year is nearly up and I don't fancy paying out (about £70?) to carry on with the 'subscription'.
Ive seen Avast been bounced around quite a few forums, is it any good? Do you have any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

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Microsoft security essentials, freebie and very good :tu:

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Just scrubbed the trial of NIS 2010 for MSE - all good so far, so another vote for MSE!

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nothing but good words from me to :tu:

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My daughters just started using MSE and seems happy with it.

I will be giving it a look for my notebook when my Eset sub runs out in a month or so.

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Avast is a good one.

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Friday - www.giveawayoftheday.com
Online Armor ++ free on the day - a decent firewall with a rather so-so antivirus (Ikarus engine does very poorly in VB100).
Not sure if you could disable the AV componnent, and use firewall/webcontrol of that, with Avast or MSE for Antivirus.

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i use this on several computers

http://www.comodo.com/home/internet-...t-security.php

it can take a few days of reading the notifications and choosing to always allow but so far its caught everything that's been thrown at it

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the Comodo AV suffers from dishing out a hell of a lot of false positives. Aslo the defense and security can get really infuriating if you actually want to use your machine lol The firewall seems ok though :)

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http://www.av-comparatives.org/image...ummary2009.pdf

take a look at this for unbiased tests on the latest AVs and internet security software

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What he said.

Its surprisingly good for a MS Security application, looks like they finally learnt after One Care.

I use it here as well.

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I never buy renews for Norton. Far, far cheaper to buy a new boxed version and just enter the key.

For example, I just bought 3PC version of Norton IS 2010 for around £19. Boxed.
Also remember that you get the new version free during the subscription period, so if 2011 comes out I get that too.

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Never use Norton, it user way too much resources and slow your computer down, AVG Free is a good one

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When was the last time you used Norton/Symantec?

They have cleaned up there act as far as resource usage goes. No AV catches everything so you must use a layered approach.

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I second AVG for a really useful and silent Anti virus. Its Free too

Duke

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Replacement for a Norton 360? The Triumph Bonneville is highly regarded...

I've used AVG Free and Avast. Both seem to do a good job.

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Like has been said earlier ' Norton can slow your machine down'.
I have used Norton/Symantec products for a number of years!
Currently running 360 v3 which is much improved against v2.
(Running Intel machine with 3.2Ghz processor)

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If the £70 subscription you mention is to buy online from Symantec it is too expensive.
We use Norton Internet Security 2009 and when the subscription was due to expire i just bought the same product from PC World for about £25 and just used the product code to continue for another year. It was a lot cheaper than purchasing another 12 months online direct from Symantec plus no reinstalling as the product is the same.

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really....just...no.

go test your PC via Shields up website and see how vulnerable you are under AVG free

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Ahh good old GRC - is he still going? He scares the crap out of you and then has a solution - for a price!

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i suppose if you don't know much about windows security.
running Eset Smart Security, it found a few holes in my firewall but said they weren't generally used by hackers.

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As an update to my earlier post re 360 v3, v4 now available to update earlier versions.
Feedback on v4 to see if any better.
Brian

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If it's the same rules as IS then you can download updates while in subscription period. I've installed IS2009 and then got 2010 installed. Just waiting out the 50 days till subscription ends then I can install 2010 I bought at Costco for £18.

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# Same here using Norton 360 3.0 premier - for my new Dell xps 8100 i7 intel 860 (2.80ghz 8mb) O/S windows 7 (Home Premier 64bit)

# Then norton systemworks premier 12.0 for my older Xp machine (dell 8250 3.06ghz p4)

If you look on the back of the box for 360 it states that 360 is striped down version, so is much lighter on the resouces of the computer, thou 360 won't let me download or open any .RAR files nor let me load up certain web sites on my new computer as of yet.. Any body out there to could help me with that ?

I've found 360 to be on a uneven level but as systemorks hasn't released a patch for to use systemworks on windows 7, I'm going to stick with norton 360 until then.

As for norton slowing your machine down, yes but you need to have a good set up computer Eg: memory & HD drive - for everything to run. (enough free space). Many I guess have tried to shoe horn nortons software into a low spec machine & still think it will run ok with other programmes in the background - wrong. :td: