Win7 and Norton 2010 Anti Virus

[Emrys Davies]

Is there any history of Norton's Anti Virus product
http://www.antivirusware.com/norton-antivirus/ interfering with Win7. I
may decide to use that. I read the somewhat detailed thread on anti
virus products on here recently and will also consider those.

 

[Phillip Pi]

Is there any history of Norton's Anti Virus product
http://www.antivirusware.com/norton-antivirus/ interfering with Win7. I
may decide to use that. I read the somewhat detailed thread on anti
virus products on here recently and will also consider those.

It will be fine in it. Try the trial version.
--
Phillip Pi
Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst
Partner Engineering/Internet Service Provider/Symantec Online Services,
Consumer Business Unit
Symantec Corporation
www.symantec.com

 

[Guest]

Is there any history of Norton's Anti Virus product
http://www.antivirusware.com/norton-antivirus/ interfering with Win7. I
may decide to use that. I read the somewhat detailed thread on anti
virus products on here recently and will also consider those.

My personal experience, which lots of others agree with me, is that,
generally, Symantec/Norton personal products are nothing but bloated and
resource hungry junk, their anti virus holds the lead in that.

Their corporate products are decent though.

I would suggest avoiding Norton Anti Virus and use a combination of a
free anti virus and free anti spyware.

I use Avast and have no complaints, along with Malwareytes.
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

You can't beat that price.
I am even considering paying for the real time protection option for
Malwareytes, from what I have seen from and from reading in other
newsgroups of recommendations of its real time protection option.

 

[Emrys Davies]

My personal experience, which lots of others agree with me, is that,
generally, Symantec/Norton personal products are nothing but bloated and
resource hungry junk, their anti virus holds the lead in that.

Their corporate products are decent though.

I would suggest avoiding Norton Anti Virus and use a combination of a
free anti virus and free anti spyware.

I use Avast and have no complaints, along with Malwareytes.
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

You can't beat that price.
I am even considering paying for the real time protection option for
Malwareytes, from what I have seen from and from reading in other
newsgroups of recommendations of its real time protection option.

I am using Avast on my present PC, but only because AVG eventually
declined to support my Win98 SE. When I uninstalled AVG my OS closed
down properly and it was only then that I realised that it was the cause
of my machine refusing to 'Close Down'.

I will consider all of your suggestions. Many thanks.

 

[Guest]

I am using Avast on my present PC, but only because AVG eventually
declined to support my Win98 SE. When I uninstalled AVG my OS closed
down properly and it was only then that I realised that it was the cause
of my machine refusing to 'Close Down'.

I will consider all of your suggestions. Many thanks.

No problem.
Glad I could help.

 

[Bruce Hagen]

Is there any history of Norton's Anti Virus product
http://www.antivirusware.com/norton-antivirus/ interfering with Win7. I
may decide to use that. I read the somewhat detailed thread on anti
virus products on here recently and will also consider those.

Personally, I would not have anything made by Norton, (Symantec), or
McAfee on any machine of mine. They are both resource hogs, (Norton being
the worst), and don't do anything better than some free AV programs. I got
this machine last October and the first thing I did was to remove the
Norton free trial and then run the removal tool to get all the crap off
the machine.

Download and run the Norton Removal Tool:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039

I am using MSE, but all of these are free and do just as good a job as
Norton, without being intrusive.

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
http://free.grisoft.com/ww.download?prd=afe

Do a custom installation and opt out of e-mail scanning.

Avast:
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

In the case of Avast, choose Custom Installation and under Resident
Protection, uncheck: Internet Mail and Outlook/Exchange.

Microsoft Security Essentials:
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/default.aspx

(No e-mail scanning to worry about)

 

[Jon Pope]

NORTON ITSELF IS A VIRUS. It reported that Win 7 was a virus

 

[John Smith]

Is there any history of Norton's Anti Virus product
http://www.antivirusware.com/norton-antivirus/ interfering with Win7. I
may decide to use that. I read the somewhat detailed thread on anti
virus products on here recently and will also consider those.

Go with AVAST!, Avira, or AVG.
Anything out there is better than Norton or Mcafee.
They suck and are expensive.

 

[Charles Tomaras]

Go with AVAST!, Avira, or AVG.
Anything out there is better than Norton or Mcafee.
They suck and are expensive.

 

[Charles Tomaras]

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

Free, works well, low resource overhead...pretty much zero problems...you
won't know it's there and you won't have to mess with it.

 

[Guest]

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

Free, works well, low resource overhead...pretty much zero problems...you
won't know it's there and you won't have to mess with it.

Low resource overhead?
Not in my case.

I have several computers in my home network and one of the is a slightly
outdate, with 512MB RAM and it started crawling when I installed MSE.
I uninstalled it and everything works again.

But it has no problems with other computers that I am using it on, they
range from 4 GB RAM to 12GB.

 

[Hugh Jeego]

Go with AVAST!, Avira, or AVG.
Anything out there is better than Norton or Mcafee.
They suck and are expensive.

Even worse - Sophos. It is actually the best there is but it costs an arm
and a leg!

 

[Hugh Jeego]

HEHEHE I love people like you. Part of my income comes from people
recommending products that don't work well and I have to fix them. AVG free
is much better than that. In fact in recent tests using viruses I have found
on machines that were not known by any anti virus (until I report them), AVG
free seems better than all except Sophos. However, if someone is going to
download music/videos etc illegally or go to porn sites, you just cant buy
or use anything good enough to be positive you are safe.

 

[Hugh Jeego]

Low resource overhead?
Not in my case.

I have several computers in my home network and one of the is a slightly
outdate, with 512MB RAM and it started crawling when I installed MSE.
I uninstalled it and everything works again.

But it has no problems with other computers that I am using it on, they
range from 4 GB RAM to 12GB.

Just cant get enough ram, huh?

 

[Andy]

Just cant get enough ram, huh?

I've never liked anti-virus softwares by the likes of Norton or McAfee.
Their constant on-line intrusion for updates amount to a virus all their
own!

I'm safe with SpywareBlaster and SpyBot Search & Destroy, going on five or
more years.

YMMV.

Andy

 

[Guest]

Just cant get enough ram, huh?

LOL.
True.
I am one greedy person when it comes to that.
I abuse computers when using, have tons of applications running, listen
to music in the background, running couple of server applications on
top, so that's why my desktop is a brand new i7 975 3.33 MHz HP with 12
GB of ram.
Don't ask me how much I spent though, :-(

 

[Howard]

My personal experience, which lots of others agree with me, is that,
generally, Symantec/Norton personal products are nothing but bloated and
resource hungry junk, their anti virus holds the lead in that.

Their corporate products are decent though.

I would suggest avoiding Norton Anti Virus and use a combination of a
free anti virus and free anti spyware.

I use Avast and have no complaints, along with Malwareytes.
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

You can't beat that price.
I am even considering paying for the real time protection option for
Malwareytes, from what I have seen from and from reading in other
newsgroups of recommendations of its real time protection option.

Norton Antivirus used to be bloatware. They totally revised the
product in 2009 and the 2009 and 2010 versions are extremly fast and
lightweight. The LiveUpdate stuff is also painless.

 

[Enkidu]

Go with AVAST!, Avira, or AVG.
Anything out there is better than Norton or Mcafee.
They suck and are expensive.

AVG is turning into a real resourse hog . . . you might not notice it on
a fast system, but then again, you might. It will make an older system
damn near unsuable.

 

[Al Smith]

Personally, I would not have anything made by Norton, (Symantec), or
McAfee on any machine of mine. They are both resource hogs, (Norton
being the worst), and don't do anything better than some free AV
programs. I got this machine last October and the first thing I did was
to remove the Norton free trial and then run the removal tool to get all
the crap off the machine.

Download and run the Norton Removal Tool:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039

I am using MSE, but all of these are free and do just as good a job as
Norton, without being intrusive.

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
http://free.grisoft.com/ww.download?prd=afe

Do a custom installation and opt out of e-mail scanning.

Avast:
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

In the case of Avast, choose Custom Installation and under Resident
Protection, uncheck: Internet Mail and Outlook/Exchange.

Microsoft Security Essentials:
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/default.aspx

(No e-mail scanning to worry about)

Good advice. I also turn off automatic updates. Just one more
annoyance that I don't need. I usually update my lists manually
when I need to do a scan on a particular downloaded file.

-Al-

 

[Bruce Hagen]

Good advice. I also turn off automatic updates. Just one more annoyance
that I don't need. I usually update my lists manually when I need to do
a scan on a particular downloaded file.

-Al-

Almost ditto. I'm set to notify, but not install.