Norton Antivirus renewal

the_gasman_2

My Norton antivirus (complete with Go Back) expires in 2 days time and I wondered what the cheapest method of renewal is.
I clicked on the renewal notice which took me to Nortons site. They say £28.
When i purchased Norton I wasn't told of this annual renewal fee.

P.s I onlypaid £24.99 for it in the first place

Vaughany_2

Get rid of it and get Grisoft's AVG instead: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5

It's totally free and works as well as Norton and others IMHO.

moonrakerz

Vaughany wrote:

Get rid of it and get Grisoft's AVG instead: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5

It's totally free and works as well as Norton and others IMHO.

Anything works as well as or better than Norton !!!

djohn2002uk

You can buy Norton Internet Security 2006 + Go Back in PCWorld for around £24.99 complete with a years updates. Order online for store pickup.

skiddy2k

if you want a good Antivirus, get BitDefender9 or Kaspersky 6... both excelent AVs and i totaly recomend them...not free though. personaly, i rather pay one of these than pay for NortonAV or use AVG/Avast!

sloughflint

skiddy2k wrote:

if you want a good Antivirus, get BitDefender9 or Kaspersky 6... both excelent AVs and i totaly recomend them...not free though. personaly, i rather pay one of these than pay for NortonAV or use AVG/Avast!

Can you explain why please? I have just gone with AVG upon recommendation from this site and would like to know reasons for other views.

skiddy2k

AVG's alright, but Kaspersky6 and BitDefender9 have much more features, detect more viruses, remove more viruses & more configurable.
personal choice... i think there are significant advantages of using the above compared to AVG and dont mind paying for these features... others may think the features arnt worth paying for.. individual prefrences.. upto the consumer.
i'm not saying AVG's crap, but its just not as good... considering its free, it is still excelent value-for-money!

moonrakerz

Totally agree with skiddy2k. I used AVG for some years until it let me down in a big way - reformat hard drive etc, etc !!!

I did a trawl of the net and bought BitDefender9 in the end.
Amazon have a 2 year year licence for BD9 at £31.99 at the moment.

Vaughany_2

skiddy2k wrote:

AVG's alright, but Kaspersky6 and BitDefender9 have much more features, detect more viruses, remove more viruses & more configurable.

Features? If that's your thing then okay. Just preventing viruses getting to me is all I'm after. Detects and removes more viruses? I'm not so sure about that. Every AV product out there has to pretty much defend against ALL viruses or it's not doing its job properly. I guess you could argue better scanning engine (as the definitions are updated regularly) but I don't know much about that.

skiddy2k wrote:

considering its free, it is still excelent value-for-money!

Absolutely! I've used AVG for 2 years, and I 'upgraded' from Norton. Can't complain about the price.:j

Also, another user here said they had a bad experience with AVG requiring a reformat. Well like a lot of software these days, it works perfectly until it f**ks up!! With so much software out there you're bound to get little problems (however a format/reinstall obviously meant a pretty big problem!)

I don't mean to evangelise about AVG, bit I was committed to getting rid of Norton and this was recommended, and I have recommended to others. Noproblems yet.

Lastly, we've just had Kaspersky rolled out on 50 machines at work, and I'm not enamoured with it yet. It's causing huge problems with MS Access and also causing machines to freeze for no reason.

skiddy2k

Vaughany wrote:

Detects and removes more viruses? I'm not so sure about that. Every AV product out there has to pretty much defend against ALL viruses or it's not doing its job properly

urmmm... nope, thats where you'r wrong my friend... no AV can defend against ALL viruses because new ones are created too often... constant threat being created which AVs have to identify and add to its definitions or herustic-protection to identify

here's a link of AV comparison websites:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/ (click "comparatives" and see thediffrence in detection rates)
http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/default.asp?id=72&mnu=72
... just goes to show they dont all "pretty much defend against ALL viruses", therfore in your opinion, i guess none of the antiviruses are doing their job properly!... its upto the user to make a choice on what they want... there is no "best" AV out there, but the detection/removal of viruses is an essential part of an AV and can vary widley