Norton anti virus - should I buy the subscription ?

Scho

I always hated Norton and McAfee - were always slow and got in the way if you ever ran full screen programs such as PC games. Maybe thats changed but after trying a few other packages they've lost me for life. Better than Panda tho!

AVG is the obvious one for free but you get what you pay for so I'd recommend maybe paying for one. I got a 3 PC licence on Checkpoint's Zonealarm Extreme Security (anti-virus, firewall and a bunch of other stuff) for £25. Worth the money and although W7 has a good internal firewall, I trust Zonealarm more as been using it for that for years.

Each to their own as sure we could argue all day on this.

MrsTinks

I refuse to use Norton - I used to work for Trend Micro (don't now and haven't for years) but we had so many problems with other Av softwares that even to this day I will still only use TM AV on my machines and have even got my parents using it Never had a problem with it (that wasn't selfinflicted...) so would definitely recommend that over McAfee and Norton any day of the week!

Blackpool_Saver

I don't know, I have used Norton for years and years, never had a resource problem, (but always had highish spec computers) never had a crippling problem, I have found the protection high, ease of use excellent and the updates seamless.

The new Norton I am told is less resource hungry, I haven't noticed this because I never had a problem in the first place.

I am not a light/novice user of the internet, I use my internet browser (chrome) for everything, including bills, banking, shopping, facebook, IRC chat etc etc and fun.

Nothing has got through yet....

ti_21

penrhyn wrote: »

If you would rather carry on with Norton then the one User 3 PC version of NIS 2010 is around £22 at Amazon. Don't know where you get £70 from, Norton 360?

hey, i was woundering if you could tell me where you saw it for £22 please...i can only find it for £30

ukbill69

Norton 360, ebay £22, 3 computers, 2 years, works great and is very fast.

dawyldthing

whsmiths has it for 25

http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/ProductDetails.aspx?productID=34188248

GOGGS75

Hi

My Norton Internet Security will expire in three weeks time and I was shocked to see the cost of renewing this (£54.99 per Symantec).

After investigation I can see that the full product can be purchased for around £20 quite easily.

I also read that all that has so be done when purchasing the full product at the lesser price to renew the subscription is input the new product key.
There is no need to uninstall then reinstall the software.

I was hoping someone with experience confirm this last point.

Cheers

Goggs75

penrhyn

The only way I found was to do an uninstall/reinstall, but soemone may know different.
The £20 option should buy a 3 PC licence.

Jemma-T

GOGGS75 wrote:

My Norton Internet Security will expire in three weeks time and I was shocked to see the cost of renewing this (£54.99 per Symantec).

That sounds just like these 'anti-virus' trojans going around that people install searching Google and then they ask for your credit card details.

Only difference is the trojan is cheaper and removes itself from your PC with a command line. You're stuck with Norton.

fiish

You can shop around and buy a new copy from a shop - these usually come with a year's subscription and are often cheaper than just buying it off Symantec.

The 2010 version of Norton is, for the features it offers, much less bloated than before. It's quicker and requires less of each system resource (CPU time, memory) to run than versions prior to 2009.

PC Pro have given it a good review: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/software/351781/norton-internet-security-2010

I use Kaspersky myself, but from the review Norton is worth considering if you must have a paid internet security suite.

If you would rather go with free, I think AVG or Microsoft Security Essentials coupled with the ZoneAlarm firewall (software firewall is less necessary if you connect to the internet via a router) is a good combination and will provide 99% of the protection you need.