Norton AntiVirus↞¢ 2005

[iain_herts]

hi guys/girls.mum and i need some help at the mo we have to pc's mine and her's i have avg on it and she has norton2002 on her's.now wot we are thinking is that if we got Norton AntiVirus↞¢ 2005 would we be able to install it on both pc's or would we be better off with Norton AntiVirus↞¢ 2005 3-User Home Protection Pack or stick with wot we have got already cheers for your help people.

iain

[kronas]

i think you should stick with AVG its a good protection program, sometimes norton can give you problems on your system if you decide to install it.

personally i prefer norton.

[paulyoung666]

i would strongly suspect that it will be a single machine licence , how much is the three user pack compared to 2 single user ones , and i would back kronas up on this , norton can be a bitch if you have problems

[iain_herts]

single 1 is 25 from pc world half price at mo and the Norton AntiVirus↞¢ 2005 3-User Home Protection Pack is 50 from norton website need some help tho as u can see i have no pound sign if i do it comes like # and if i do the AT it goes like " any ideas

Ive got Norton Internet Security 2005 which contains Norton Anti Virus 2005 and the only annoyance i have is it seems to take about 5 mins before i can get to the internet. This wasnt the case with NIS2003.

[iain_herts]

i dont need that just the antivirus bit

mind you everytime i shutdown ccAPP.EXE wont repsond and i have to close it manually. My understanding is that ccAPP.EXE is part of Norton AntiVirus

Situation:
When you restart or shut down your computer, you see the Windows dialog box displaying the message "ccApp.exe is not responding. . . ." Sometimes, Windows closes the program and you can restart or shut down. At other times you must click End Now to close ccApp.exe.

Solution:
This message does not indicate a problem. The main Norton AntiVirus (NAV) host file, ccApp.exe, is in the process of closing all running services. The ccApp.exe file can take some time to close, especially if the computer was shut down before it finished its last startup process.

Be patient. If Windows does not close the application in a few seconds, then click End Now to close the program and allow the restart/shut down process to continue


HOW SLOW DO THEY WANT NORTON ANTIVUS TO RUN????

[Millay]

Hey, AVG is good, but not fool proof, no antivurs clients are, i personally prefer norton, although everyone is correct it gets so deep in your system it can cause all kinds of problems, but Norton do patch problems and they patch often, im running norton corporate here, and its never been a problem. Just a life saver.

As for your lacking pound sign, if you goto control panel and check your keyboard and regional settings to see if they are set to US, i eckon that will find ya problem.

[abailey152]

Originally Posted by gary_580

mind you everytime i shutdown ccAPP.EXE wont repsond and i have to close it manually. My understanding is that ccAPP.EXE is part of Norton AntiVirus

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Yeah, I know what you mean. Mine does exactly the same thing, and has done it in previous versions of Norton. I think Windows tries to close the process, but Norton wants to check it's not being closed by a malicious app, then it wants to stay active until other processes have unloaded.

I think they need to get together with Microsoft and get it sorted. It's stupid that a program will routinely lock-up when Windows is closed. Surely there should be some mechanism whereby Windows knows that Norton is closing properly rather than just timing-out when it doesn't close.

Having said the above, I think 2005 is a vast improvement on 2004. It doesn't impact nearly as much on the machine's performance. 2004 did slow things quite a lot.

[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by iain_herts

single 1 is 25 from pc world half price at mo and the Norton AntiVirus↞¢ 2005 3-User Home Protection Pack is 50 from norton website need some help tho as u can see i have no pound sign if i do it comes like # and if i do the AT it goes like " any ideas

Your keyboard is probably set English (American), change the language of it to English (British) in Control Panel.

[AndrewJ]

Personally having used Nortons Internet Security 2004 for over 6month solid with heavy use of my pc systems, I noticed that it was taking ages to load and was having more issues with the ccap.exe problem. I then changed on advice of a friend to Avast! Home, and Sygate Personal Firewall with the two running they take much less resources from my pc and are much more stable the best thing of all though, is that they are free highly recommened by myself as AVG Just forced users onto 7.0 and upto the best of my knowledge they have not released the upcoming free version to the public.

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by AndrewJames

Personally having used Nortons Internet Security 2004 for over 6month solid with heavy use of my pc systems, I noticed that it was taking ages to load and was having more issues with the ccap.exe problem. I then changed on advice of a friend to Avast! Home, and Sygate Personal Firewall with the two running they take much less resources from my pc and are much more stable the best thing of all though, is that they are free highly recommened by myself as AVG Just forced users onto 7.0 and upto the best of my knowledge they have not released the upcoming free version to the public.

hi and to the site , i am using avast and kerio personal firewall , works good for me and a damned sight less resource hungry

[AndrewJ]

hi and to the site , i am using avast and kerio personal firewall , works good for me and a damned sight less resource hungry

Thankyou for the warm welcome Paul, nice site yes, Avast I have to admit made me jump first time it spoke to me lol. Although I have found it since to be a very good anti virus I do wonder sometime about what it is getting upto lol.. seems ahem rather active sometimes..

As for Sygate Personal I got that on recommendation from a friend and have found it too be as effective agaisnt hackers online.

Tried Nortons Internet Security on 15day trial a few week back and it slowed my laptops booting time right now only used it about 3hours gave up and went back to good old Sygate and Avast!.

[malcb]

i put norton internet security on my computer 2 weeks ago, slowed my pc down alot, downloads were alot slower,messenger would not sign in on start up and it took 3hrs to do a virus scan. i decided to uninstall norton and i am now using pc-cillin internet security 2005 which i am finding alot better to use,faster and more updates, had 2 updates already today.

But does faster mean its as secure?