- norton protection centre
- Posted by Bruce A. Johnson on June 17th, 2006
"Tomato" <sospam@fakeemailadress.com> wrote on 2006-Jun-17 in
news:4493aaba$1_1@news.iprimus.com.au:
My advice is to avoid Norton altogether. 8 out of 10 of my clients who
had Norton software, had a problem with the Norton software. Usually it
required uninstalling Norton, then reinstalling, . . . for little or no
reason. Then the reinstallation of Norton would not work, unless I
cleaned the hard drive and the Windows Registry of any trace of Norton
first before reinstalling.
- Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- -- Mark Twain
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- Bruce A. Johnson in Hardisty, Alberta, Canada
- Bruce@BruceJohnson.ca
- http://BruceJohnson.ca/
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- Posted by Tomato on June 17th, 2006
Does anyone know if installing norton antivirus and firewall as seperate
programs rather than bundled in NIS2006 would avoid getting norton
protection centre?
- Posted by Tom Crooze on June 17th, 2006
"Bruce A. Johnson" <Bruce@BruceJohnson.ca> wrote in message
news:Xns97E5131C5483FBruceBruceJohnsonca@66.150.10 5.47...
Hi Bruce,
I've used Norton for some time and really haven't had any GREAT problems ,
but I'm wondering if it's time for a change ?
What would you suggest as an alternative to NIS , covering all the same
areas , - antivirus / firewall / spyware etc.
Are the free versions of AVG / avast / Zonealarm etc good enough. What do
you use...?
Thanks
Tom
- Posted by Tomato on June 18th, 2006
/quote
CNET editors' review
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Reviewed by:
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Review date: 11/9/05
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The good: Norton AntiVirus 2006 offers improved detection and removal of
spyware and adware.
The bad: New Norton Protection Center introduces more clutter than useful
features; Norton AntiVirus 2006 waits until spyware installs before catching
and removing it.
The bottom line: Norton AntiVirus 2006 improves its detection and removal of
spyware and adware but lags behind the more proactive McAfee VirusScan 2006.
/quote
Thats the last straw. Time to switch brands. Next stop: checking the
viability of using Linux rather than XP. Thankyou Mr DRM. o_O
- Posted by Bruce A. Johnson on June 18th, 2006
"Tom Crooze" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote on 2006-Jun-17 in
news:maXkg.57733$IK3.48085@pd7tw1no:
For a fairly effective combination of free security software:
Firewall: ZoneAlarm Free
Anti-virus: AVG free
Anti-spyware: Spybot Search & Destroy and AdAware (both find things the
other may not)
Up until recently, I wholeheartedly recommended ZoneAlarm Internet
Security Suite for an all-in-one package. Unfortunately, the major update
to it last week causes many problems. I currently advise people to
uninstall version 6.5, and reinstall the previous version (version
6.1.744.001, which I have done). These problems apply also to the free
version of ZoneAlarm also, which is just a firewall.
AVG free is OK, but is in-your-face. It pops-up a big window at Windows
start every morning to do a scan, and it adds advertisements for itself to
all your e-mails.
Both Spybot S&D and AdAware are very good, and are NOT in-your-face.
- Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- -- Mark Twain
-
- Bruce A. Johnson in Hardisty, Alberta, Canada
- Bruce@BruceJohnson.ca
- http://BruceJohnson.ca/
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- Posted by SiG on June 18th, 2006
Tomato wrote:
When you uninstall Norton make sure it doesn't leave any 'bits' behind
otherwise it screws up the installation of Mcafee VirusScan 2006
happened to me and couldn't solve it untill I did a complete reinstall
of windows and started from scratch.
Regards SiG
