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Old 26-01-2010, 20:56   #1
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Norton 360 - Replacement suggestions?
Hi,
When I bought wifes PC about a year ago it came bundled with Norton 360. Our year is nearly up and I don't fancy paying out (about £70?) to carry on with the 'subscription'.
Ive seen Avast been bounced around quite a few forums, is it any good? Do you have any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance.
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Old 26-01-2010, 20:57   #2
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Re: Norton 360 - Replacement suggestions?
Microsoft security essentials, freebie and very good
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Old 26-01-2010, 22:16   #3
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Re: Norton 360 - Replacement suggestions?
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Microsoft security essentials, freebie and very good
Just scrubbed the trial of NIS 2010 for MSE - all good so far, so another vote for MSE!
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Old 26-01-2010, 22:20   #4
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Re: Norton 360 - Replacement suggestions?
My daughters just started using MSE and seems happy with it.

I will be giving it a look for my notebook when my Eset sub runs out in a month or so.
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Re: Norton 360 - Replacement suggestions?
Avast is a good one.
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Re: Norton 360 - Replacement suggestions?
Friday - www.giveawayoftheday.com
Online Armor ++ free on the day - a decent firewall with a rather so-so antivirus (Ikarus engine does very poorly in VB100).
Not sure if you could disable the AV componnent, and use firewall/webcontrol of that, with Avast or MSE for Antivirus.
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Re: Norton 360 - Replacement suggestions?
i use this on several computers

http://www.comodo.com/home/internet-...t-security.php

it can take a few days of reading the notifications and choosing to always allow but so far its caught everything that's been thrown at it
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the Comodo AV suffers from dishing out a hell of a lot of false positives. Aslo the defense and security can get really infuriating if you actually want to use your machine lol The firewall seems ok though
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Re: Norton 360 - Replacement suggestions?
http://www.av-comparatives.org/image...ummary2009.pdf

take a look at this for unbiased tests on the latest AVs and internet security software
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Re: Norton 360 - Replacement suggestions?
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Microsoft security essentials, freebie and very good
What he said.

Its surprisingly good for a MS Security application, looks like they finally learnt after One Care.

I use it here as well.
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Re: Norton 360 - Replacement suggestions?
I never buy renews for Norton. Far, far cheaper to buy a new boxed version and just enter the key.

For example, I just bought 3PC version of Norton IS 2010 for around £19. Boxed.
Also remember that you get the new version free during the subscription period, so if 2011 comes out I get that too.
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Re: Norton 360 - Replacement suggestions?
Never use Norton, it user way too much resources and slow your computer down, AVG Free is a good one
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Never use Norton, it user way too much resources and slow your computer down, AVG Free is a good one
When was the last time you used Norton/Symantec?

They have cleaned up there act as far as resource usage goes. No AV catches everything so you must use a layered approach.
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Never use Norton, it user way too much resources and slow your computer down, AVG Free is a good one
I second AVG for a really useful and silent Anti virus. Its Free too

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