Norton refresh time on land line?

[FlyOnTheWall]

Had my whole home PC redone, Win XP home, Office 2007. Got Norton Internet Security - Yes, I was uninformed when making this decision. Apparently downloads much longer than e.g. Kaspersky/ BitDefender, and slows down PC a lot.

PC will be used very little, want to save money if can.

But I want it to be very secure because I will be copying a lot of stuff with memory sticks / external hard drives etc., from my home PC to/ from work PC.

Little browsing & small e-mails therefore, but will be refreshing the virus strings all the time.

Looks unlikely that I'll get Neotel where I live - a big mountain is in the way. Already Neotel on other side of mountain.

How long will it take to refresh Norton on
1) A landline. Maybe faster with more people migrating to broadband?
2) ADSL 384kb. P.s. what is the 'circuit' speed e.g. 192kb vs. 384kb, and is this chosen by you or pre-ordained by your fixed line?

Thanks for helping

 

[pkid]

Hi. I have Norton Internet Security 2009 and I like it. If you have anything less I would upgrade for free because it is much better than the older versions. I know that they have pulse updates that come down every 15 min that chow a few kilobytes of bandwidth. I have a few PCs that I haven't used in a while and about 9 megs of updates came through. When a significant patch comes down the wire it can be big. Last one was about 40 megs but that has only happened twice in my 4+ months.

1) A few seconds for a Pulse Update. 45 min if you haven't updated in a while and 3 hours for a big patch?
2) You won't even notice the update on ADSL...

That's my non scientific theories....