Norton Antivirus substitute

Is there any anti virus service other than Norton as a substitute.
They do not have enough people working to be able to get a renewal.

BILL P.

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:43:07 -0600, "William. Boyd"
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>Is there any anti virus service other than Norton as a substitute.
>They do not have enough people working to be able to get a renewal.

Free and paid:
http://www.grisoft.com
http://www.avast.com
http://www.trendmicro.com
http://www.free-av.com
http://www.pandasoftware.com
I prefer Grisoft Free AVG.

Here's a shopping list:
http://www.freebyte.com/antivirus/

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/S...ty/Anti-Virus/

http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Ec...us_Protection/


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William. Boyd wrote:
> Is there any anti virus service other than Norton as a substitute.
> They do not have enough people working to be able to get a renewal.
>
> BILL P.

Jeff's list is good. But I used to swear by eTrust EZ Antivirus. It's
still very good, but they're now going for the "kitchen sink" approach a
la Norton and McAfee (not a good thing in my opinion). Now the
granddaddy of AVs for me is Kaspersky. This is only a sample of one, but
a few days ago I removed viruses from a heavily infected machine using
AVG and got the first wave, then I ran eTrust and got a few more, then I
ran Trend Housecall and got maybe 2 more. Then I ran Kaspersky, which
took about 4-5 hours to scan, and it found 26 more infected files. If
that machine ain't clean now it's not going to get clean.

i use nod32 ... fast and a killer! :-) ... www.nod32.com ....nfi but
a san diego company ...

steve

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:43:07 -0600, "William. Boyd"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Is there any anti virus service other than Norton as a substitute.
>They do not have enough people working to be able to get a renewal.
>
>BILL P.

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:58:23 -0800, Jeff Liebermann
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:43:07 -0600, "William. Boyd"
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Is there any anti virus service other than Norton as a substitute.
>>They do not have enough people working to be able to get a renewal.

> http://www.grisoft.com
> http://www.avast.com
> http://www.trendmicro.com
> http://www.free-av.com
> http://www.pandasoftware.com

Add to that (to my surprise) www.ca.com and their eTrust EZ Antivirus
(find via Security link, then Home Store). Works on Win2k Servers,
costs nothing (for the first year?).

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William. Boyd wrote:
> Is there any anti virus service other than Norton as a substitute.
> They do not have enough people working to be able to get a renewal.
>
> BILL P.

AVG so much better then norton. Norton can really mess with you computer
and bog it down with all the bs stuff it installs and you can never remove.
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_updt7.php

The trick with Norton is to not install anything but the Norton antivirus
app. All their other stuff ties up your machine like a minimum wage
employee with 15 maxed credit cards.

--Ray B

"gekco" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> William. Boyd wrote:
> > Is there any anti virus service other than Norton as a substitute.
> > They do not have enough people working to be able to get a renewal.
> >
> > BILL P.
>
> AVG so much better then norton. Norton can really mess with you computer
> and bog it down with all the bs stuff it installs and you can never
remove.
> http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_updt7.php

"Ray Bacon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:JI0Id.1154$(E-Mail Removed)...
> The trick with Norton is to not install anything but the Norton antivirus
> app. All their other stuff ties up your machine like a minimum wage
> employee with 15 maxed credit cards.
>
> --Ray B
>
Thats why it makes sense not to bother with anything made by Symantec in the
first place. I can imagine Peter Norton (whose name they bought) and was
once known for producing excellent, compact utilities is not a happy guy
having his name on such incredible bloatware.

"Ray Bacon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>The trick with Norton is to not install anything but the Norton antivirus
>app.

I kinda like McAfee ASAP, it's a very simple app that just does virus
scanning (no POP interceptor, no firewall, no singing, no dancing).
Unfortunately you have to buy a minimum of two licenses, but it lets
you visit a WWWesite to check the update status, which works really
well for me to keep track of my client's machines remotely. The price
is right too, ~$50/2 years per seat.

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 07:23:50 -0700, gekco <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>William. Boyd wrote:
>> Is there any anti virus service other than Norton as a substitute.
>> They do not have enough people working to be able to get a renewal.
>>
>> BILL P.
>
>AVG so much better then norton. Norton can really mess with you computer
>and bog it down with all the bs stuff it installs and you can never remove.
>http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_updt7.php

I just installed AVG and I have to say I'm favorably impressed so far.
This thread coincided with me trying to figure out why this 2 ghz laptop
had gotten so slow. I'd tried every spyware program I could find. Nada.
I've spent a bit of time plowing through the registry looking for
suspicious stuff. Nada.

It finally dawned on me that I had installed a virus/trojan/resource hog
myself when I installed Norton last November. I did the standard XP
uninstall and Viola! New life for my machine. I installed AVG free and
noticed essentially no speed hit.

Actually getting rid of Norton was something else. I noticed that several
norton processes were still running even after a reboot. The symantec
directory in "program files" was gone but there was still lots of stuff in
"program files\common files\symantic*"

I killed the processes and deleted the whole symantic tree. Then it took
over an hour to root out all the symantec trash from the registry. They
splattered crap everywhere.

One reboot later, karma abounds! I THINK norton was messing with my WiFi
connection, probably one of the reasons thruput was so low despite having
an excellent signal. I haven't had time to measure yet but it sure seems
faster.

John


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