Norton Anti Virus at the office

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Xenophon

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Hi,

which is the best Norton anti virus for at the office. I need to get prices for the boss and just to get an idea of overpricing had a look at incredible corruption :

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Ranges from R470 - R1200. I just want to know which one will work the best and then will get quotes from other places.

Do I need a disc per machine as I have 4 machines to update.
 
What you're actually needing is Symantec Corporate Edition. We deal with AVeS (www.aves.co.za) and pay an annual fee of around R150 per copy per year. (Which includes the upgrades to new versions etc). The corp edition allows you to deploy across your network from a central server and also manage and view reports on viruses received on each workstation. This saves alot of time and in my opinion is quite cheap as its an operational expenditure and doesn't require a capex.
 
unfortunately company wants to keep all offices running the same program, ie Norton:(

Edit : I have decided on this one

Now last question : my boss is already running norton on his laptop (got it with the laptop) but it's expiring soon , does he have to buy the whole new package or can he just buy the upgrade and how much / how do i go about organizing it.
 
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Xenophon said:
unfortunately company wants to keep all offices running the same program, ie Norton:(

Edit : I have decided on this one

Now last question : my boss is already running norton on his laptop (got it with the laptop) but it's expiring soon , does he have to buy the whole new package or can he just buy the upgrade and how much / how do i go about organizing it.
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Norton's should have a renewal link on the side bar that takes you to the online renewal page.

Since you are going for a commercial product I would suggest you consider Nod32 --> even though I don't use this product myself it certainly outperforms all other anti-virus software and is widely recommended.

See the forum discussion on anti-virus software here.

Nod32 verses the competition.

Use this report to convince your boss;)
 
ditto on that one as well. I'm not a fan of Norton AV - their AV management product is non existent, but if its only for a handful of machines at the office it shouldnt be a problem. For SOHO's I'd recommend Kaspersky, NOD32
 
In my books NAV is the most dangerous virus&worm&malware&spyware&plain_badware package. Now you are going to pay some company for this expencive resource hogging "software".

Wait wait wait. You are going to do What?! You are going to pay some company to infect your PC's with virusses?! STOP

NAV is bad IMHO
Had endless troubles in the past with it.

I wont be caught by that bug Ever again.
 
Nortons is bad, I stopped using it when some exploits only worked when you had NAV installed. NOD32 does seem unbeatable, for free I liked Avast.

Never use more than 1 Anti Virus program, you're susceptible through each one's vulnerabilities.
 
If NOD32 picked up all the threats, I'd agree. However, NOD32 has missed a few (that AVG caught) and vice versa. I've been running this setup for a few years now and I've never had any problems/threats that have slipped through. :)
 
No package will pick up 100% of threats 100% of the time. I normally upload samples to virustotal - they run it through around scanners. What I find is that one month package A detects most of the stuff, the next months is package B.

Overall they're all pretty much the same in detecting stuff, its the management of clients and distribution of pattern files that sorts vendor A from B out.
 
I've never experienced such a bad program as Norton.
Never recommend it.
Never heard a good word about it from those who know things.
EVER!
 
Norton Anti-Virus. How to change your Core2Duo pc into a Celeron pc.

I've uninstalled Norton from my pc, it is just the most pathetic anti-virus software ever created. Symantec STILL cashes in on the Norton name.
 
gregmcc said:
No package will pick up 100% of threats 100% of the time.
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Nod32 comes pretty darn close ;)

It's not a fully fledged internet security suite, so one would have to look at getting a standalone firewall. But as an anti-virus, it's almost legendary among IT security experts.
 
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