norton renewal advice

watty77

my norton anti virus is up for renewal now , i want to the anti virus 2009 version , can i download it elsewhere cheaper , rather than having to renew my supscription with norton , any advice pls as im a bit of a novice :cool:

thanks

Marty_J

You could use Avira AntiVir or Avast Home Edition, both of which are free and better than Norton Anti-virus.

isofa

Totally agree, dump Norton, and go with the free software.

gaming_guy

and to remove norton properly, uninstall it from the control panel then download and run the norton removal tool

undercover_pillow

AVG Free is a perfectly good anti-virus software that also doesn't block your computer's memory with un-necessary tasks every five minutes :beer:
I must check out those other free ones sometime!

Pillow

thebluenose

Couldn't agree more. I work in IT and in my opinion norton is a dog.

Sure it does a good job at stopping viruses but is bloaty and will really slow down a machine.

Millionaire

undercover_pillow wrote: »

AVG Free is a perfectly good anti-virus software that also doesn't block your computer's memory with un-necessary tasks every five minutes :beer:
I must check out those other free ones sometime!

Pillow

AVG in rubbish, many a time has it let Viruses on to PC's and has gone downhill in it's latest incarnation.

Avira and Avast are better. I like Avira as it has excellent detection rates and is very lite on resources.

Norton 2009 has been a significant improvement over the garbage they put out in the past few years. It seems to be getting good reviews all round and is supposed to be quite lite on resources.

isofa

undercover_pillow wrote: »

AVG Free is a perfectly good anti-virus software that also doesn't block your computer's memory with un-necessary tasks every five minutes :beer:
I must check out those other free ones sometime!

Pillow

AVG isn't as good as it was a few years ago, I'd put Avira first, then Avast with AVG in third - but I wouldn't use it out of choice. I stopped using AVG ages ago, and wouldn't go back, it's much more inefficient compared with Avira, and doesn't detect as many viruses in comparative tests.

macman

It's invariably cheaper to buy Symantec products 'new' rather than renew your sub. That's a second reason for not using Norton. The first is-it's carp.

Sput2001

Another vote here for ditching Norton and replacing it with Avira or Avast.

I did exactly that about four years ago (initially with AVG, which I've since replaced with Avast) and haven't looked back since.

HTCWinMob

Ditch Norton and forget about AVG - it's gone down the pan. Comodo is another option to those above.