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Richard Mohler
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Reply #26 March 12, 2004 12:06:15 AM
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Ive used both...and have found both to be more or less 'equal'...


If I had to choose, It would be Mcafee...



...Its UI is prettier.
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Reply #27 March 12, 2004 12:15:13 AM
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Norton and McAfee are resource hogs and leave crap all over your system. AVG is much better.

Come to think of it, anything with the name Norton or Symantic are resource hogs and would never be installed on any computer I own.
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Reply #28 March 12, 2004 12:36:41 AM
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can't figure out how to configure it hmm?


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Richard Mohler
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Reply #29 March 12, 2004 12:54:15 AM
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Both Norton and McAfee do take a bit of tweaking in my experience to cut down on resource useage without sacrificing protection. For a long time I ran both of them, but it seemed that each time I would update one, I would have to start over trying to get the two to play nicely with each other. I now run Norton exclusively, because in the two years I ran both, Norton caught things that slipped past McAfee, and I could not recall a single instance of the reverse being true. I also have Norton AV as part of SystemWorks Pro, and I have been very happy with the whole suite.
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Reply #30 March 12, 2004 12:55:48 AM
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AVG is lighter in resources, but not as good in over all detection as McAfee or Kaspersky. Although years ago I wouldn't touch McAfee with a barge pole. It's better now, although both McAfee and Norton borg PC's. (I use NOD32 for an AV and BOClean for trojans.)

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Reply #31 March 12, 2004 1:33:23 AM
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Norton
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Reply #32 March 12, 2004 2:47:07 AM
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Nortons
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Reply #33 March 12, 2004 2:59:46 AM
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Norton - never fails. It even sorts out web page viruses.

Ignore the anti Norton brigade. Just like the anti Microsoft brigade their claims are shallow and baseless
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Reply #34 March 12, 2004 4:09:18 AM
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I orignally used IBM Antivirus, which at the time was better than Norton or McAfee. The antivirus technology that IBM used was a main reason that Symantec bought IBM Antivirus. The scanning was faster and it had a low false alarm rate and a better detection rate.

Since Symantec bought IBM Antivirus, Norton has become a better product, and has maintanined that level. And they are always the first to get the new stuff from IBM Antivirus research lab, to incorporate into their program.

Yep Norton, because they gave me the Enterprise Edition and a Symantec beer glass to welcome the old IBM customers into the fold (OK it was the beer glass).

No, really Norton is a good product, sorry for the history.
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Reply #35 March 12, 2004 6:57:53 AM
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This is good question? You can use both of them. I used before Norton when I had Win ME which was basically not a operating system but crashing system. Now I have updgraded to XP home and use McAfee.
Nevertheless I had problems with security suite i.e. I could not access anymore to certain webpages. Everything was blocked no matter which adjustment I ed. After contacting McAfee I couldn't move a step forward because they kicked me arround from one person to another. So I had to give up and desable the sucurity suite and now it's working good.
I like most such software suppliers which offer you best support before you buy. But if you need their help afterwards they even do not respond.

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Richard Mohler
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Reply #36 March 12, 2004 8:45:55 AM
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Norton AV pro, and never had a problem with it.

I remember the days I had McAfee on my old win98SE machine, gave me nothing but problems. I also had the McAfee firewall... another useless piece of junky software.

They lost me back then, and I'll never, ever consider them again. >



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Reply #37 March 12, 2004 8:46:15 AM
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Trend Micro's PC-Cillin has never let me down.   Regular updates? I sometimes get 3 or more a day...... they stay on top of things.
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Reply #38 March 12, 2004 8:57:29 AM
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Trend has worked well over the years also without a doubt.

Old win98se days

man now I feel really old having started out with the first dual floppy IBM pc....



*sigh*
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Reply #39 March 12, 2004 9:14:37 AM
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9 out of 10 men who have tried Camels prefer women....

I'm using Norton....though prior to this I was a beta tester for 'In Defense' and 'Mail Defense' later called Achilles shield...but they tend to have issues with IE in XP....killing the process....

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Reply #40 March 12, 2004 9:18:25 AM
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Norton.

Because It has a nice GUI
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Reply #41 March 12, 2004 9:40:01 AM
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I also run Norton with no problems, however, my sister(has Norton 2004) experienced first hand what a worm can do to a brand new system(a tech friend came to her house and fixed it) Norton was up-dated, so that wasn't the problem and she said she never opened an attachment(maybe her hubby did or daughter, I donno) She feels Norton let her down and that Norton should have caught the worm.........my faith in Norton slipped down a couple of notches.
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Reply #42 March 12, 2004 9:47:53 AM
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if you connect to the net without AV and or a firewall app running, the chanes are you are going to be hit with a number of worms and such through the messenger service....

no one has to open anything...

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Reply #43 March 12, 2004 9:59:13 AM
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True enough IPlural, her daughter uses messenger but don't you think Norton should have caught it?
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Reply #44 March 12, 2004 10:05:08 AM
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not if it wasn't installed already, or running...

there are also some online downloads which when run just add the file to a directory on the drive and normal seeming changes are made to the registry as with any installation, yet the program actually calls the nasty into service upon first running the app...

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Reply #45 March 12, 2004 10:16:18 AM
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Man it was a nasty too, hard to remove but my sister learned a hard lesson.....watch over her 14 year old daughter! My sister is so turned off by computers now, she hasn't even turned the thing on(a little gun shy I guess)
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Reply #46 March 12, 2004 11:06:34 AM
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I had Win ME which was basically not a operating system but crashing system.


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Reply #47 March 12, 2004 11:13:39 AM
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I remember the days I had McAfee on my old win98SE machine, gave me nothing but problems


I remember having those days too. I'd get so pissed, I'd just shut off McAfee, But those were gentler kinder days of yore on the net
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Reply #48 March 12, 2004 2:20:18 PM
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I tend to recomend McAfee to people based on my experience. I've had to sort out lots of peoples machines that have been royally messed up by Norton, but I've never had to recover things for people using McAfee. Norton is fine WHEN IT WORKS how I'd sum it up.

I also tend to opt for McAfee personally as the licence we have at work covers all staff and students to use it on their home machine(s) too.

I have no qualms recomending AVG or Panda http://www.pandasoftware.com/ either based feedback from users, though the last time I had time to presonally really test out alternative AV products was a number of years ago....I've gotten lazy, and just stick with what I know works now.

BTW, We get updates from McAfee almost daily which we then mirror out for our machines or home users to pick-up...I've never known McAfee more than an hour or so behind Norton or the others for updates, and sometimes they're in advance. It usually depends on who the virus gets reported to first I think.
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Reply #49 March 13, 2004 1:10:47 AM
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can't figure out how to configure it hmm?


I can figure them out just fine, thank you. IMO, while they do the job they're intended to do, they have a large footprint and AVG is a better written program.

BTW, what does configuring have to do with the fact that they both leave traces of crap all over your system if you ever decide to uninstall them?


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Reply #50 March 13, 2004 1:25:26 AM
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I like Macfee I think it is easy to use. have a nice day
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