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Topic: Antivirus Program Recommendations? |
Mel Culbreath
From:
Waynesville, NC, USA
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Posted 12 Feb 2003 11:48 am |
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I run Norton AntiVirus 2002 and am happy with it, but a relative doesn't have an antivirus program and asked me for a
recommendation.
I see on the Symantec site that Norton has "Norton Internet Security 2003" for $40 after rebate. It has these features:
Norton AntiVirus™
Norton™ Personal Firewall
Norton™ Privacy Control
Norton™ Spam Alert
Norton™ Parental Control
Strangely, the stand alone version of Norton AntiVirus 2003 costs $50 and no rebate is offered.
Would she be better off paying the extra $10 and getting the stand alone program for the sake of simplicity and then downloading the free version of ZoneAlarm, or getting the Internet Security suite and having a more difficult program to deal with.
I would appreciate your comments. I don't know anyone who has "Norton Internet Security 2003" that I can ask about it.
Thanks,
Mel |
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Tony Prior
From:
Charlotte NC
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Posted 13 Feb 2003 10:52 am
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Mel, the Norton system is what I upgraded to recently and find it very good. You can turn things on or off at will and customize preferences as well.
I am certain there are other fine prgrams but the Norton Security 2002 package is also very fine.
It's worth the couple of extra bucks I believe.
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John Gretzinger
From:
Canoga Park, CA
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Posted 13 Feb 2003 11:38 pm
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Mel -
Everyone has their favorite product - my choice is based on doing anti-virus work since 1985 and watching how the programs have progressed throughout the years. A couple of years ago I changed from Dr. Solomon's Anti-virus Toolkit (the company was bought by McAffee) and moved to PC-cillin from Trend Micro.
As I sit here typing this, I have another machine from a client that was running another popular anti-virus product that did not protect it and got infected with Klez, Bugbear and Opaserv. PC-cillin had removed all the infections and I'm not getting things put back into shape from the infection.
None of my clients who run PC-cillin have this problem.
That's my experience - your mileage may vary.
jdg
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Mel Culbreath
From:
Waynesville, NC, USA
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Posted 14 Feb 2003 5:14 am
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Tony and John,
Thanks for taking the time to answer and for the advice.
I will pass this on to my relatives.
Mel |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 14 Feb 2003 6:51 am
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I also use PC-cillin. It will protect and clean up systems like no other. I had a bad virus on my computer and it was the only program that would take care of it. You can download it over the internet.
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Bill Ford
From:
Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 14 Feb 2003 6:26 pm
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Mel,
Norton came with my new hard drive ,and has stopped the klez virus and several others on occasion,also is renewable each year for $19.95 on their website,also alerts to new upgrades when available at no added cost,so far,I like it.My nickles worth.
Bill
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