Norton runs out tomorrow, can u recommend a cheaper good alternative?

alibongo54

My choice, I wanted Norton. Norton wanted £79 for 1 year. I paid £29 for 2 years, thus I saved myself money. Each to their own.
My pc is not slow.
Personal choice.

JasX

alibongo54 wrote: »

My choice, I wanted Norton. Norton wanted £79 for 1 year. I paid £29 for 2 years, thus I saved myself money. Each to their own.
My pc is not slow.
Personal choice.

np, we're just noting how badly it performs in independent tests compared to the free ones.

See https://www.av-comparatives.org

you are perfectly entitled to spend your money on something that detects fewer viruses if you so prefer

Inactive

alibongo54 wrote: »

My choice, I wanted Norton. Norton wanted £79 for 1 year. I paid £29 for 2 years, thus I saved myself money. Each to their own.
My pc is not slow.
Personal choice.

Well I saved £29 more than you.:rotfl:

ian1969uk

JasX wrote: »

np, we're just noting how badly it performs in independent tests compared to the free ones.

See https://www.av-comparatives.org

you are perfectly entitled to spend your money on something that detects fewer viruses if you so prefer

Did you even read the site you linked to?

Their most recent summary report, December 2009, puts Symantec (Norton) as the best overall product and gives it the Gold award. How are you concluding that it performs poorly?

All this Norton bashing stems from their products of a few years ago, which were bloated and caused a lot of system problems. Their new products, especially Norton 360 v4.0, are sleek performers and top pretty much all of the online comparisons you may care to look for.

Yes, you have to pay for it, and yes there are decent free alternatives. However, to say that Norton performs poorly is rubbish and in actual fact if you read the reviews you will see that none of the free ones are now even coming close to the level of protection offered by the good paid ones from Norton, Kaspersky, Trend Micro etc.

aliEnRIK

ian1969uk wrote: »

Did you even read the site you linked to?

Their most recent summary report, December 2009, puts Symantec (Norton) as the best overall product and gives it the Gold award. How are you concluding that it performs poorly?

All this Norton bashing stems from their products of a few years ago, which were bloated and caused a lot of system problems. Their new products, especially Norton 360 v4.0, are sleek performers and top pretty much all of the online comparisons you may care to look for.

Yes, you have to pay for it, and yes there are decent free alternatives. However, to say that Norton performs poorly is rubbish and in actual fact if you read the reviews you will see that none of the free ones are now even coming close to the level of protection offered by the good paid ones from Norton, Kaspersky, Trend Micro etc.

Its pretty poor at 'retrospective' viruses though (Ones it doesnt know about)

aliEnRIK

OP ~ if your going to get rid of NORTON then use the Norton removal tool
http://service1.symantec.com/Support/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039

If your undecided then download the FREE AVIRA av for now until such time youve decided (Or stick with Avira)

Personally speaking id go with Avira or Avast for free
Kaspersky if I was going to pay

Malwarebytes as a secondary scanner no matter what I had
Firefox with the NOSCRIPT plugin for browsing the net

wallbash

All this Norton bashing stems from their products of a few years ago, which were bloated and caused

Interesting article in the Sunday Times today .
Norton is now much improved .... from a very low standard.
Have agreed ( up to now ) with the Dump Norton , why pay ,
AVG was great , then they ruined it .
So it was Avast for me , last three years.

But I think its time to keep an open mind , follow developments.

Summary of the Sunday Times
If you want to pay ! Norton is now the one.
For a freebi , now its AVG

Will I remove Avast for AVG , not worth the bother, but next time I format my h/d will ( at-least) try it.

Richie-from-the-Boro

The full Times article - you decide !

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article7042062.ece

aliEnRIK

Well, if the Times says something it MUST be true............

bob_man_uk

i would love to know the setups for these tests as i STILL dont believe a word of what these people say when it comes to softwares.

I have had numerous laptops with norton/symantec pre-installed and the laptop feels as slow and sluggish as the desktop ive been running without a cleanup for 3 years. remove norton/symantec and voila, as far as i care symantec is still the bottom of the heap, i dont care how well at detecting virii it is if my overal system performance is hinderd because of it.

like most people have said, its all down to personal preference, i used to use kaspersky internet suite, that i got from my partners barclays account, and between that and avast ive never had any problems, so depending on how i feel i usually opt for either one of those.