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norton or mcafee?

AV preferences

  • Norton (av only)

    Votes: 5 31.3%

  • Mcafee

    Votes: 5 31.3%

  • other: AGV panda ect.

    Votes: 6 37.5%
  • Total voters
    16
kurbycar32

kurbycar32

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i currently use norton 2003 at home, straight up antivirus as most of the norton utilitys are crap. but at work we have mcafee enterprise 7.1. i am going to upgrade my AV and cant decide between norton 2005 or mcafee 9 (i think thats the latest) mcafee seems to take more system resources and i am totally confident in both of them as far as removing and catching viruses. whats your opinion? and back it up with a legit reason
 
i prefer mcafee. My experiences with Norton have been good and bad. But i have tried to install the latest version and for the weirdest reason there is an app on that program that, also takes over. Well not takes over but kinda adds some extra/unneeded protection to your recycle bin. And that's why i dont like Norton.

I have never tried any of the free virsu scanners, so not too sure about them.
 
you're talking about Norton Protected Recycle. Adds an 'undelete' for files that aren't nornally sent to the Recycle Bin.
 
That recycle bin thing use to upset me. After I took a little time to see what it was doing for me I don't mind it.

If you right click your bin you can start looking into more.

I can't vote because I don't have any recent experience with Mcafee. I would say that I use Norton's AV and have found them very helpful. About a year ago I was worried they were too popular (virus's were designed to attack Norton's), but they have seemed to be combating this.

I haven't had any reason to leave them. Even if I am trying to fix someone elses computer, I will go to Norton's web site to get tools.

If the computer is important to me, I have a personal rule to install the least number of software vendor's as possible. So, I wouldn't uninstall one vendor to replace it with another.
 
Screw both of them... Too slow, out dated, and corporatly butchered.

AVG is the way to go.
 
Ive used Norton system works (virus scanner / Firewall) and ive used McAfee firewall

I went with norton for both because i had the works suite and that did good. Until Firewall started to piss me off. I mean it did the job and it worked with simple features of setting protection. But damn i hated that i couldnt use Internet Explorer at boot up. Ya ya ya.. that was me.. I could not DO anything on the net until Norton system works launched Firewall. So my auto login items didnt launch and would hang because the firewall was the one of the last things to come up. ALso IE would not let me search it would be as if i had NO internet.

I guess that was done to fully protect the user but damn.. i want my ish to run when i want to..

Then i used McAfee Firewall to try something new and it worked well for me. I can launch all the net programs i want before its up and running. Also it gives u the same control. Maybe a little bit more control and more info on whats going on. Actually starts to track how many times people tried to send you stuff and how many hits your PC had. You can see the trend like when that virus got relased last year i saw my hits go up by alot. Theres an easy way to block and allow stuff to go through. Tells u what IP it came from. Even trace it. Like today it says 1054 New events have been blocked today.

I would go Norton Virus Scanner and their system works without the firewall and go with McAfee Firewall thats how i use mine right now.
 
I've been running trend-micro on the desktops and scanmail for the exchange server. So far so good.

Previously I used the mcafee ASAP client, and had to constantly un-install/re-install when the client would be unable to auto-update for some unknown reasons.
 
I downloaded a copy of AGV free for one of my laptops. i am happy with the interface and it seems to move pretty quick. does anyone know how quickly AGV gets updates out when a big virus hits? thats the main reason i would stick with a name brand
 
I've "tried" alot of different ones, and have been unplease with lots of them, either cause of resource hogging, etc.

The best ones I've tried are AVG or NOD.
AVG is fast, free, and doesn't use as much resources.
 
I have been losing faith in Symantec products for around 2 years now. Their updates are not always easy. They release their patterns later then most Anti-virus companies.

Their products do eat up a lot of resources. Have been using Trend micro for exchange and really like how that works. I might demo their desktop stuff and leave Symantec.
 
Neither.

Norton is too bloated. McAfee kept having conflicts with Outlook. So I ditched both of em.

All of my computers are now on Trend Micro Internet Security. Got a 5-license pack to cover all my PCs, laptop, and server at home, and couldn't be happier.
 
Norton and McAfee are both crap, Norton is way to hard on system resources and Mcafee just doesn't have enough protection.
Plus both are bloatware..

I would recomend AVG free edition or Trend Micro. Both of these are good, AVG is free and doesn't use up system resources.

I use Zone Alarm Pro suite as I like to know what is trying to access the wan and have control over it. Also It has antivirus built in so it does both Jobbies in one :thumbup
 
Glad to see no one flamed me for bashing Norton and McAfee. Double as happy to see other recommend AVG after Ilisted them as an alternative to the "others".

I lost faith in Norton a few years back when even MICROSOFT offered a fix for the LoveSan Worm, before Norton and McAfee had 100% cure alls.
 
Dopesick VFR said:


AVG is the way to go.
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I have been using AVG for the past 2 years or so, always was good to me plus does not eat reources like norton/macafee
 
I like EZ armor with adaware 7.0 they work great and not much of a load on the computer at start up and while running.
 
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