Norton Anti-Virus 2005 Public BETA


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You mean...2006 don't you??:happy::

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That's because it's the same app every year, only more bloated slower, and crappier. If you must insist on a symantec product go with the corporate version. MUCH BETTER - but still guaranteed to give you headaches when upgrading the server ! :happy::

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I usually don't like products being bashed the hell out of, especially popular products like Norton. That's usually because it's a lot of computer geeks pretending they know stuff they don't.

However...

Norton really is a poor poor product. It slows systems to a crawl, it stops things from working and if generally very clunky. BUT! ... If you go the whole way and buy Norton Internet Security, there's a good chance your PC will be the most secure in the world since Norton Firewall has a destict habit of refusing all connections from anywhere. Like the other day when it blocked incoming DHCP information from my router to my mums laptop!

Avoid like the plague, especially with better, cheaper, alternatives around.

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Is there any reason why Norton makes its products so memory hungry when its competitors work well or even better without hogging up so much of the system resouces?

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It will be interesting to see if NAV2006 supports WinXP x64. Since 2005 doesn't support it, I've been using Avast! for a short while and am mostly pleased with it.

I'd rather run NAV, but I'll go with what's best for my current platform.

--ScottKin

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this product is eating the memory voraciously

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reading the word voraciously on a forum made me lol

NOD32 for me

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didn't even make it to the second page :(

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Well I am too thinking of giving symantec the flick, 12 years or so I think I have used their products, I gave Norton System works the flick for Tune-Up utilities, will be giving it the boot with respect to AV and NF, I am only going to probably use ghost, had enough of having it run at startup, it crashes, so just create an image manually.

I think I might try the free firewall I can get from AOL, McAfee and maybe Etrust which M$ gives out for free.

If they suck eggs I will get the zone alarm full suite.

So it's going to be a full format for the first time in many years and then a nice fresh install and maybe by that time SP3 will arrive and I.E. will be version 7 (not beta).

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I don't run an AV and I have no regrets about it. I have used internet virus scanners before but my firewall seems to do the trick. I have less viruses and adware now than I did when using Norton....

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