Best replacement for Norton360

bluewire

I currently have Norton360 installed but find that it kills my laptop when updating etc.

I am looking for the best total cover that is "light" on the pc.

Any Ideas??

globalds

kaspersky internet security

bluewire

Is that a low CPU user

Donnie

I'll second Kaspersky IS 2009. NOD32 Smart Security is also light on resources.

d123

I have been running Avast on my laptop, desktop and DD's laptop.

All have been running well for over a year without infection.

Even better, for home use it's free.

http://www.avast.com/

Donnie

AVAST free is just an anti-virus solution.

d123

Donnie wrote: »

AVAST free is just an anti-virus solution.

Strange that, my download of the free Avast suite is a little more than just AV.

It comprises 7 separate modules:

Internet Mail
Messaging
Network Shield
P2P Shield
Standard AV Shield
Web Shield

buglawton

Some Trojans seem to be ignored by Virus checkers but picked up immediately by Spyware scanners like Spybot S&D or even AVG Antispyware. AVG 8.0 now combines full Virus and Spyware scanning into 1 action - this makes good sense in terms of the time it takes to scan a disk for instance

sleep2much

The bin is the best place for a lot of Norton stuff.

BlueScoob60

I bought the Norton Suite, and found that it just killed my computer. Operation was horribly slow to the point where it made the computer almost unusable.

I got my money back from Norton, and downloaded the free trial of Kaspersky Internet Suite. The trial produce is NOT a stripped down version - it's the full software, but time limited to 30 days for the trial.

It found a couple of things on my computer (spyware mainly) that Norton hadn't detected. It's detection facilities are amongst the best, in my opinion.

If you like Kaspersky you can simply purchase a license online and plug that license code into the trial version to remove the time limitation. The license lasts a year, after which you'll need to purchase a new one. When I renewed this year, there was a whole new version of the product available, so I downloaded that for the upgrade fee.

Very fair I think. I have NEVER had any problems with viruses, spyware, malware, worms, etc. since using Kaspersky.

(and no, I'm not an employee of Kaspersky Labs) - but I do work as an IT consultant.

ianjohnson80

Thanks fo rthe replies.

I will go for Kaspersky(good price at £36.12)

Will take the free trial first though.

Have had both Norton and Mcafee and they both are too heavy for my single CPU