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adsl3g
25-06-2006, 09:25 AM
Hi all
What are your thoughts on the 2 packages mentioned above - I got them both for R389 but ...... not so happy with it.. :(
It seems to be too much 'in yourface' and it appears to slow down the PC a bit - once the PC has finished with its booting up it runs fine - but it seems to slow down the boot up routine.
Also, you have to renew every year - I hate that.... seems as if they just need to milk you continuously.
Thinking of trying out that Comodo suite.
What are yr experiences before I dump Norton?!?
supersunbird
25-06-2006, 10:27 AM
My experience is that anything newer than AV 2003 drains your PC so much it actually defeats the intended purpose. I cant advice you on anything else to use (according to me AVG and Avast both dont have user friendly enough interfaces). But yeah, the yearly renew is whats making all my client switch.
adsl3g
25-06-2006, 06:10 PM
My experience is that anything newer than AV 2003 drains your PC so much it actually defeats the intended purpose. I cant advice you on anything else to use (according to me AVG and Avast both dont have user friendly enough interfaces). But yeah, the yearly renew is whats making all my client switch.
Thanks - also used Norton years back then got FSecure under a license from my work - but they since changed that and the ver of FSecure I was using was getting a little long in the tooth - they stopped providing live updates for the ver I was using - now they got Symantec but its not configurable so they can stick it..
tibby.dude
25-06-2006, 06:24 PM
Norton is bloated bug infested crap that used 50MB of memory when it is merely idling.
I would recommend using the free Avast antivirus and ZoneAlarm.
adsl3g
26-06-2006, 10:35 AM
Norton is bloated bug infested crap that used 50MB of memory when it is merely idling.
I would recommend using the free Avast antivirus and ZoneAlarm.
On yr comments in the other post I loaded Comodo FW & also their AV - muuuuch better - on the first system scan it found 2 backdoor thingies in some files I d/loaded a while ago (were,nt using them though). So far so good. Does not slow down the system at all and the updating is quite quick on the AV - The firewall seems to have updated quite a lot since I downloaded it last week and installed yesterday.
tibby.dude
26-06-2006, 12:54 PM
On yr comments in the other post I loaded Comodo FW & also their AV - muuuuch better - on the first system scan it found 2 backdoor thingies in some files I d/loaded a while ago (were,nt using them though). So far so good. Does not slow down the system at all and the updating is quite quick on the AV - The firewall seems to have updated quite a lot since I downloaded it last week and installed yesterday.
Glad you like Comodo ... the interface is a bit too bling for my taste but it work well even better than ZoneAlarm according to the PC Magazine review.
Got it installed on the wife's PC as she is my unwilling beta tester :).
The_Librarian
27-06-2006, 12:26 PM
Glad you like Comodo ... the interface is a bit too bling for my taste but it work well even better than ZoneAlarm according to the PC Magazine review.
Got it installed on the wife's PC as she is my unwilling beta tester :).
Just beware - you might be an unwilling beta tester for the new heavy-duty kitchen implement... :p :D