Anyone Tried Norton 2006 Yet? Feedback Please

sandeep

Apr 20 2006, 05:46 PM

hi friends,

Has any one tried Norton 2006.
I am currently using Macfee.
Do give your feedback about this software, if you have used it.

I have also heard that Avast is also good.

Regards.

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organicbmx

Apr 22 2006, 01:53 PM

we have it on one of our computers and it practically doubles your boot time, give you this stupid, ugly, useless extra on the taskbar that i cannot get rid of. other than that is seams exactly the same as 2005. norton is not great by anyones standards. i recormend anything but.

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roggle

Apr 25 2006, 05:57 PM

I have to agree with sandeep. I used to be a fan of Norton as it used to boast great detection rates but it really is a resource hogger and other antivirus companies like kaspersky and mcafee now have similiar if not better detection rates while taking a lot less resources.

Boot up times become slow, your faster computer slows to a crawl and it eats a hell lot of RAM. That is my experience with Norton 2005/6. Most reviews report Norton being unresponsive though having a lot of protection.

Nowadays, I'm using a free one called Antivir available at http://www.free-av.com which is actually pretty good. Very lightweight in terms of system use, reasonably fast scanning and respectable detection rates. Lacks features but does its basic job well which I like.

But yes I've heard good things about Avast but didn't really like its interface and apparently has a much poorer detection rate.

Take a look at http://wiki.castlecops.com/AntiVirus_Comparison and http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1864601,00.asp to compare the free ones.

For a look at the pay ones you can take a look over here http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1891760,00.asp

http://www.consumersearch.com/www/software...virus-software/ also is a good source for checking out antivirus reviews.

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inevitable

Apr 29 2006, 06:13 AM

QUOTE(roggle @ Apr 26 2006, 12:57 AM)

I have to agree with sandeep. I used to be a fan of Norton as it used to boast great detection rates but it really is a resource hogger and other antivirus companies like kaspersky and mcafee now have similiar if not better detection rates while taking a lot less resources.

Boot up times become slow, your faster computer slows to a crawl and it eats a hell lot of RAM. That is my experience with Norton 2005/6. Most reviews report Norton being unresponsive though having a lot of protection.

Nowadays, I'm using a free one called Antivir available at http://www.free-av.com which is actually pretty good. Very lightweight in terms of system use, reasonably fast scanning and respectable detection rates. Lacks features but does its basic job well which I like.

But yes I've heard good things about Avast but didn't really like its interface and apparently has a much poorer detection rate.

Take a look at http://wiki.castlecops.com/AntiVirus_Comparison and http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1864601,00.asp to compare the free ones.

For a look at the pay ones you can take a look over here http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1891760,00.asp

http://www.consumersearch.com/www/software...virus-software/ also is a good source for checking out antivirus reviews.

Even I dislike the Avast interface, but it has a few built-in skins that makes it look way better.
Don't get close to Nortan Anti Virus, unless you have atleast 2 GB of RAM. (Only then you woudn't feel the difference

)

It used to be very good, but the interface started hogging alot of memmory even though it wasn't impressive. Im my opinion Norton products are for novice users.

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