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Is it ok to buy Norton antivirus from Ebay?

ClaireLR
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My subscriptions runs out in 22 days - when it asks me to renew the site is asking for £39.99:eek: However, on Ebay I see it listed for as low as £12.50 with free postage. Is there a catch? :confused:
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  • Jaffa.
    Jaffa. Posts: 1,193 Forumite
    edited 29 June 2009 at 12:55PM
    I've haggled in the past and got it renewed for £10...
    If I was you though - Go into staples, sign up for their loyalty card (you get £7 in vouchers) and purchase Bitdefender Antivirus (1 year 3 pc's) - Much better protection than norton, use the £7 on the £11.99 price and get better antivirus for £4.99 :)
  • ClaireLR
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    Wow thats some cheap antivirus! Is it really better than Norton? I thought Norton was the best, thats why I went with them originally.
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  • timbim_2
    timbim_2 Posts: 1,292 Forumite
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    No, Norton is quite possibly the worst.
    Ubuntu is an ancient African word, meaning: 'I can't configure Debian'.
  • Jaffa.
    Jaffa. Posts: 1,193 Forumite
    edited 29 June 2009 at 12:56PM
    ClaireLR wrote: »
    Wow thats some cheap antivirus! Is it really better than Norton? I thought Norton was the best, thats why I went with them originally.

    Nope, norton is not the best, you can't get a 'best' antivirus anyway but norton doesen't even come close to good ;)

    Have a look at this http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/main-tests

    Norton antivirus get's £35%
  • DKLS
    DKLS Posts: 13,461 Forumite
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    Would never use Norton, I use Kapersky, and paid £12 for a 3 machine licence copy.
  • Jaffa.
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    slushpuppy wrote: »
    I would ditch Norton and get Avira im not going to say get avg as for some reason its now pants but works fine on my desktop pc or you could get avast which is also free

    http://www.free-av.com/ avira

    http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html avast

    AVG has better detection rates than Avast and that's with no rootkit detection.

    Avira will just bug the hell out of you with it's built in Adware and has poor slow updates, no self protection either. Personally after testing all three of them, I cant say I would go with any free AV.
  • ClaireLR
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    So you would go with the freebie ones?? Whats rootkit detection? Sorry, not really a techie person :)
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  • Jaffa.
    Jaffa. Posts: 1,193 Forumite
    slushpuppy wrote: »
    so whats the big deal with avg

    Well there's no rootkit detection, it's quite a bloated program, has adware built into it with it's little advertisement at the bottom, they all come with Adware telling you to purchase their security suite, even Avast!

    Nod32 is expensive, kaspersky and BitDefender have the same overall detection rate of 50% but BitDefende's cheaper so...
  • Jaffa.
    Jaffa. Posts: 1,193 Forumite
    edited 29 June 2009 at 1:21PM
    ClaireLR wrote: »
    So you would go with the freebie ones?? Whats rootkit detection? Sorry, not really a techie person :)

    It's a cloaking technique for a virus. There's a long artical here but under removal it says:
    Many hold this to be forbiddingly impractical. Even if the nature and composition of a rootkit is known, the time and effort of a system administrator with the necessary skills or experience would be better spent re-installing the operating system from scratch.
    So if you get a rootkit it's game over :p
  • Fishingtime
    Fishingtime Posts: 757 Forumite
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    The anti-virus that is sold on ebay is ok.
    A person buys the righ to use it on lots of comps and then sells the right on.
    My mate who is a comp freak uses them all the time.
    But I would still go with the free ones ie:AVG
    Owing on CC £00.00 :j

    It's like shooting nerds in a barrel
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