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patrickp · 16-01-2006, 15:32

Norton is probably the worst antivirus application around for system resouces economy, plus it seems to generate more problems than any other AV. I couldn't say how much of that is down to the fact that it's probably also the most widely used AV, but I do know that I see a lot of problems associated with Norton that I don't see flagged up with other AVs - with the possible exception of McAfee.

I use Zone Alarm with Antivirus, which features an improved version of their firewall with an excellent AV from Computer Associates and is very effective, a light resources user and cheap - about £20 or so to buy (download) and about £13 a year renewal thereafter.

NOD32 seems to be the AV with the best reputation for low system resource usage and effectiveness, though; I'd have probably tried it by now if my ZA with AV option wasn't so good itself, and cost effective.

TBH, I've tried Avast and AVG free versions and, while I'd prefer using them to AV apps from the Norton/McAfee stable, there's no way, for me, they compare with the AV solutions I've mentioned.

I'm just trying ntl's own Netguard ATM on a machine I'm getting ready for my brother and, although it's only been running a few days, it certainly 'feels' better than AVG or Avast, if you run it without the anti popup, anti spam etc options - if you use Firefox/Thunderbird, who needs that stuff? And, of course, it's a freebie.

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patrickp Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: in the groove Posts: 897	Re: Norton Anti Virus 2006 Norton is probably the worst antivirus application around for system resouces economy, plus it seems to generate more problems than any other AV. I couldn't say how much of that is down to the fact that it's probably also the most widely used AV, but I do know that I see a lot of problems associated with Norton that I don't see flagged up with other AVs - with the possible exception of McAfee. I use Zone Alarm with Antivirus, which features an improved version of their firewall with an excellent AV from Computer Associates and is very effective, a light resources user and cheap - about £20 or so to buy (download) and about £13 a year renewal thereafter. NOD32 seems to be the AV with the best reputation for low system resource usage and effectiveness, though; I'd have probably tried it by now if my ZA with AV option wasn't so good itself, and cost effective. TBH, I've tried Avast and AVG free versions and, while I'd prefer using them to AV apps from the Norton/McAfee stable, there's no way, for me, they compare with the AV solutions I've mentioned. I'm just trying ntl's own Netguard ATM on a machine I'm getting ready for my brother and, although it's only been running a few days, it certainly 'feels' better than AVG or Avast, if you run it without the anti popup, anti spam etc options - if you use Firefox/Thunderbird, who needs that stuff? And, of course, it's a freebie.