I hate McAfee virusscanFollow

Norton Utilities pak kicks ***. And is easy to use. Even fer us truckers.

I just bought the norton pack

Norton does not DEMAND you install through Microsoft Internet Explorer. It does not demand you allow pop ups. It does not crash your PC and reboot randomly. I like it so far ..

Thank you again Weebs, you are my hero

Norton are wonderful. Its all installed and running without any hiccups on install and it required one reboot only. The firewall is a dream to use. The antivirus picked up 8 nasties on my PC that McAfee missed.

To McAfee

To Norton

Ya, I’m going with Norton myself when my subscription runs out...or Fry's has if Free after rebate again.

I have the McAfee Security Sweet and every couple of months it makes you verify your subscription online, for each application. Word of warning, their Privacy Manager is a total piece of crap.

EVERY time I had to verify, it disabled the Privacy Manager and since I couldn't sign in it wouldn't let me access the web to do the verification. Then to uninstall it wants to verify first. Call McAfee and no help cause their dB is down. Finally was able to trick the software and uninstall the Privacy Manager... everything else verified fine after that. No more renewing McAfee. I’m dropping the bastages for Norton when renewal time comes.

Yup, Norton all the way. It has it's own quirks, but it isn't anywhere near as annoying as Mcaffee, whcih I have had miss things in the past and will not use ever again.

The worst program I've ever seen is the Cox security suite. While it's great for finding viruses and spyware, simply having it installed reduces internet conuctivity by 50%, and the firewall features won't let you click on a lot of normal links.

Im glad someone droped the Cox bomb. What a POS that is. I have never worked with something so horrible.. I had a EU call me ( i work in a computer repair call center....) and they told me that Cox told them to go into the registry and mess with stuff. WTF is with that?

Any way. yes Norton is #1 in the country (US) so....i think i will stick with it.

I've been pretty pleased with AVG so far. It doesn't seem to do have any quirks and even the free version seems to be well kept up to date.

I seem to think I downloaded AVG on a recommendation from Kao. Thanks!

IIRC that's powered by Etrust, which I've heard isn't bad.

If Norton wasn't catching stuff on your machine, you had it configured wrong or had problems already when it was installed. There are viruses that attack AV processes and if you have one of them it can be a bit painful to get rid of it if you've never been through the process before.

http://free.grisoft.com/


http://www.free-av.com/

2 of the best FREE antivirus scanners on the market...

http://www.f-prot.com/

free for linux, but pay for service for Windows. ($29.00 for home user)

F-Prot is the #1 virus scanner in the world. yes way better then both Norton and McAfee combined.

ok edited to add the price for F-prot in windows.

Edited, Sun Oct 16 12:01:46 2005 by Singdall

Oh my god ..

So I sent E-mails to McAfee asking for a refund to have no reply.

So today, I called them which is expensive being an overseas call, but I wished to get my money back.

First question is "Hello ma'am, may I have your E-mail address please?".
So I reply "Jennifer<x>"

Then the CC rep decides that she cannot understand the name Jennifer and has no clue how to spell my name. I have to spell my name out letter by letter and she still gets it wrong 5 times. I then have to spell my surname 5 times till she gets it right. By this point I have lost my patience.
Now, I am asking all US citizens here, is Jennifer such an odd name that you would not recognise it or know how to spell it?
Oddly she understood my customer reference number fine, but that was all numbers

Eventually, I get my refund, but only after they request I contact tech support, which I declined and had to put my foot down.

From now on, I try before I buy anything!!!