I have Norton...It does the job

You would use fee, Gary

They're both good... use either one.

My son was a programmer for McAfee and even while he worked there I still used Norton. He uses Norton now too...

I do

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Richard,

I've tried McAfee...

...which led me to Norton...

...which finally led me to AVG Anti-virus

You can check it out at www.grisoft.com. And best of all, there is a FREE version.

I have only used Norton.
They seem to do a very good job.

Before there was an internet McAfee was the only virus scanner around. They had a BBS based out of Mt Veiw CA where you could go read about viruses and get your computer scanned.  At that time Norton was the premiere utilities package and Xtree and PC Tools were hot on their heels. McAfee did a lot to bring anti-virus software into being.

but Microsoft did more than anyone to make anti-virus software a reality... (necessity) 

I have both

Norton on my desktop and McAfee on my Laptop

If I had a gun to my head and had to choose, I would pick Norton because they do seem to update more often than McAfee and I've had it longer(4yrs.)than McAfee(1yr.)I guess I'm just more comfortable with it because I've had it so long.

Richard...

NIS Pro... hands down...

people will spit, laugh, cry and whine, stomp their feet and throw their teddy in the corner. But, I go with what works best and all of the systems under contractual care up and down the east coast of the united states run NIS Pro hands down. Dealing with the government and the Bureau of Primary Health Care "Tommy Thompson's" division in many instances leaves no choice but to be picky as hell.

My wife is on a consulting gig in Houston until Sunday researching EMR products as a matter of fact.

Having to ensure that systems are locked down without compromising connectivity on the client side. Also having to make sure that EMR is secure to meet HIPAA standards and doing this for city, county and state wide non profit clinical networks with remote sites all filtering through to the co-lo data center in Tampa Florida makes one picky in whom they entrust such things.

Do I seriously have a preference? yes, Norton, do I also use Mcafee? yes, because if all you have is a hammer you end up driving screws like nails.

anyway...


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indeed mcafee was first, and i swore by that as a necessety until along came symantic buying up norton. that shield always gave me problems on my 98 machine and i just never went back. 'sides.. get your self system works or a norton firewall and it comes with antivirus. 20$ a year isn't bad considering you find out first hand what its going towards.

I was just wondering which antivirus stuff you prefer?

AntiVir Guard. Free, and it works better than both.