Norton AntiVirus 2005 Beta Build 71

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One of the most well-known virus scanners on the market today, this comes with an enormous number of options to keep your system virus free.

Norton AntiVirus offers:

Auto-Protect to automatically scan files
Quarantine
LiveUpdate that updates your DAT files over the Internet
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Download: Norton AntiVirus 2005 Beta Build 71

News source: softpedia.com

Instructions
Works 7.0 Update
This download will remove error messages that might be received if you install Works 7.0 on a computer and Word 2002 is already installed on the same computer. If you start Word 2002 and the following error message appears, download this update.

Microsoft Word has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

If you click Click Here, a second dialog box that contains information about the error opens. The information contains the following:
Error Signature

AppName: winword.exe AppVer: 10.0.4030.0
ModName: unknown ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 00650053

(10 replies) #1 traxx on 14 Jul 2004 - 15:22

They need to quit messing with the gui and start working on the scanning part. I don't care if my antivirus is pretty, I care if my antivirus antis the virus.

#1.1 Hurmoth on 14 Jul 2004 - 15:23

Yeah I know! Who cares how it looks as long as it works!

#1.2 el22 on 14 Jul 2004 - 15:37

Much more people than what you'd think.

#1.3 Hurmoth on 14 Jul 2004 - 15:58

Well, let's see: would you rather have a nice beautiful UI, or would you rather have a vicious Trojan, virus, and/or worm that could destroy your important data?

#1.4 neoufo51 on 14 Jul 2004 - 15:58

The thing with the GUI is completely psychological. These days, when people see a glitzy looking program, they think, oooo, its gotta be good. Remember, they are trying to sell this to as many people as possible and the average end user isn't as computer savvy as you or I.

#1.5 Insane_Ninja on 14 Jul 2004 - 17:09

up until... 2002? the GUI was majorly overhauled every year.. its only recently been stable.. i think the last two years it looked almost identical to the prior year

#1.6 el22 on 15 Jul 2004 - 00:02

QUOTE (#1.3)

That's not the point. Most people think that if they buy an anti virus, they won't have viruses. There are no "good" antivirus or "bad" antivirus for most of their customers, there are "nice", "ugly", "easy to use" and "complicated" antiviruses.

That's why they care.

And don't forget they have to give a reason for existing clients to upgrade to the newest version.

#1.7 Hurmoth on 15 Jul 2004 - 11:00

It may look ugly, but I promise it catches more then Norton

#1.8 Erich on 15 Jul 2004 - 17:08

I work on an internet help desk and alot of "non computer savvy users" think they got ripped off with norton 2004 and wish they kept 2003. Even the non-savvy computer users aren't as stupid as you all might think. People don't even want to have to use a virus scanner, if it was integrated into the os, I'm sure they'd love that alot more, but would you or I???

#1.9 Hurmoth on 15 Jul 2004 - 19:15

I would love to have an AV program intergrated right into the OS! That would be awesome!

#1.10 Hurmoth on 15 Jul 2004 - 19:17

Was just thinking, Norton AV Corp. Edition isn't pretty (doesn't work very good either), but the fact that it isn't pretty doesn't bother me. If you get the scanner itself right, then I'm happy, screw the UI!

(3 replies) #2 Daedalus on 14 Jul 2004 - 15:26

They should really start working on minimising impact on system performance.

#2.1 JohnO on 14 Jul 2004 - 15:57

amen

#2.2 neoufo51 on 14 Jul 2004 - 16:03

They couldn't care less about that. They are trying to sell to people with new, faster, more powerful PC's. You know, to sell the entire Norton suite to suburban types with lots of cash to spend and want something to protect the new 3ghz Dell they got for the college boy. If you dont have the CPU for it, then too bad. You will never see a version that actually uses less CPU than the last version.

#2.3 PsykX on 15 Jul 2004 - 04:55

Ohhh, I wouldn't be so sure about this.

Recently, I scanned 350 000 files on my computer within one hour. Yes, it did use all of my computer ressources during this time, but with a similar configuration that I had 4 months ago, it would take ~6 hours and still take all of my computer ressources to scan 500 000 files.

I hated Norton 2004 because it would take all of my ressources, but I am really willing to go with this 2005 version

It is nice, stable and powerful!

(1 reply) #3 GwaRGuITaR on 14 Jul 2004 - 15:33

uhh.. the download link points to a 2004 install...

#3.1 XxDesmus_MODxX on 15 Jul 2004 - 01:50

yeah, you're right

(2 replies) #4 Caleb on 14 Jul 2004 - 16:03

Norton works by taking up all the CPU resources to itself, and then the virus can't even launch.

Great technology.

#4.1 hotrod on 14 Jul 2004 - 16:51

LMAO!

#4.2 Avi on 14 Jul 2004 - 17:06

LOL

(1 reply) #5 yayo on 14 Jul 2004 - 16:22

The solution is simple, get NAV Corp.

#5.1 BlackAle on 14 Jul 2004 - 17:57

nah, forget Symantec. The solution is NOD32.

(1 reply) #6 digistil on 14 Jul 2004 - 16:36

Anyone know of a great FREE AV?

#6.1 stezo2k on 15 Jul 2004 - 14:32

AVG free edition, is very fast, and updated a lot

www.grisoft.com

#7 elliot on 14 Jul 2004 - 16:37

I don't know if the main window is actually a html page or they just tried to make it look and sound like IE... but damn, it sucks hard.

#8 trance.fm on 14 Jul 2004 - 16:40

#9 eilegz on 14 Jul 2004 - 16:45

omg thx to god im not using norton antivirus anymore version 2004 is a ram eater and with activation.

Migrated to Trend Micro Pc-cillin 2004 and its great, frequent updates, and is fast scaning (15 compared to the 2 hours of norton antivirus)

#10 d33 on 14 Jul 2004 - 16:45

hmm here is the direct link to download it :
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/misc/sabu/nav_beta_2005/NAV_2005b.exe

but needs serial key..

so better to register on NAV site first and then download it..
https://www-secure.symantec.com/public_beta/cgi-bin/nav_beta_2005.cgi

Dee

#11 GwaRGuITaR on 14 Jul 2004 - 17:22

i wish NIS2k5 was public beta

lots of bugs in there i'd like to report. hehe

#12 zephiK on 14 Jul 2004 - 17:42

cooL

#13 tom5 on 14 Jul 2004 - 18:14

How resource-hungry it is this time ?

#14 midway40 on 14 Jul 2004 - 18:31

When I got my Dell 8300 3 GHz last March, it had NIS '04. It felt like I was still on my old 4100 800 MHz! Took NIS off and bought Trend Micro IS and hardly notice it is running.

(3 replies) #15 killer of dawn on 14 Jul 2004 - 19:09

kaspersky rules them all, it finds everything including spyware etc

#15.1 theyarecomingforyou on 14 Jul 2004 - 19:30

Seconded...

#15.2 killer of dawn on 14 Jul 2004 - 22:42

seconded???

#15.3 mrvc on 15 Jul 2004 - 13:36

He seconds that?

#16 jefexp on 14 Jul 2004 - 19:18

this has a 30 day timebomb in it, so be prepared to go to you backup, as new builds cannot be installed ontop of this one.

(1 reply) #17 Spitfire_x86 on 15 Jul 2004 - 03:39

Use NOD32 or pre2004 version of Norton (2002)

This one is f***ing awful. It f***ed up my whole system

#17.1 PsykX on 15 Jul 2004 - 04:57

It gave me a little error on my 1st install (but it prevented me from using the whole antivirus software), but then I uninstalled it and did another install and everything worked fine for me!

#18 [M] on 15 Jul 2004 - 06:37

i've got norton systemworks 2004 and the live update wouldn't update

, so i had to download the update off the symantec site

...
before updating it said it found 6 onfected files...after getting the update it said 23, though most of them were adware...only one was a trojan horse

#19 matric on 15 Jul 2004 - 12:35

I prefer eTrust EZ Armour (VET AV and Zonealarm Pro Firewall). Both are fast, simple, easy to use (how much easier can you get than "Go" and "Stop"

. Not only that Computer Associates and Microsoft are giving away free year subscriptions.

(1 reply) #20 Halona Treeclan on 15 Jul 2004 - 14:38

So in all which a. v. is the best at this time.I want total protection and if possible the ability to blow spy ends to smithereens,in short make them sorry they looked.

#20.1 frazell on 15 Jul 2004 - 16:45

The best Anti Virus is User Anti Virus...

What i mean by that is dont open suspicious files, etc...

Viruses are written to snoop Anti Virus apps so you will alsways get one that may slip thru. If you take the time to ensure your protected, then your protected...

Kinda like a condom, it can protect you from a virus, but its not 100%...

#21 Mister Lamar on 15 Jul 2004 - 16:43

September is getting close

#22 Aussiebob on 16 Jul 2004 - 09:27

Iwas quite happy upgrading norton anti virus but was advised to install norton internet security 2004 with its bells and whistles is there a way of directing the spam it picks up as[Norton Antispam]to the deleted items folder of outlook express

#23 Halona Treeclan on 25 Jul 2004 - 18:22

Thank-you

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