Mcaffee or Norton antivirus?

[supergeek]

i vote norton. it works and i just plain dont liek the fact that mcaffee provides a backdoor to the government. i dont care if it is the govt, if u provide ways to hack your software to other pplz, it can be exploited.

[jtroutma]

My opinion:

Used Norton ever since 1996 on both Macs (yes those things) and PCs.
Have yet to truely have a bad experience with it and it has served me faithfully. I currently run Norton Corp 8.1 on my main system due to a smaller memory footprint than 2004 and run 2004 on my work laptop.

McAfee, Trend, AVG, EZ Trust,..... played around with all of them in the field and have seen all sorts of problems with them. Also, why cant they take a hint from Norton and make updating the virus definitions as easy as a simple button click?!?!?!?!?!?

This is my experience; milage may vary...

[redleader]

I currently run Norton Corp 8.1 on my main system due to a smaller memory footprint than 2004 and run 2004 on my work laptop.

Correct answer. Norton Corp is amazing.

[msv]

Originally Posted by supergeek

i vote norton. it works and i just plain dont liek the fact that mcaffee provides a backdoor to the government. i dont care if it is the govt, if u provide ways to hack your software to other pplz, it can be exploited.

Eeeh... Now things went a bit confusing. That´s *exactly* the same reason I chose McAfee over Norton.
Same reason, opposite outcome.
Please, help, gentlemen!
Is it Norton or McAfee who has the Government backdoor?

Otherwise, supergeek, I fully agree. I don´t like the backdoor either. If it is there it´s just a matter of time before it´s open to everyone, and that will definetely include those You *don´t* want inside Your computer.

regards
Mikael S.

[SysCrusher]

No one mentioned F-Prot. I've been using that since my DOS days and always worked well for me. Norton or McAfee just seem to take over the OS to much for my taste.

[2Busy]

I have used the free version of AVG and never got a problem. I ran Norton several years back until I got bit by a virus, and my virus database was up to date. No more Norton for me. I will stick with AVG until I have a problem with it.

[gogo]

Originally Posted by SysCrusher

No one mentioned F-Prot. I've been using that since my DOS days and always worked well for me. Norton or McAfee just seem to take over the OS to much for my taste.

Been using that too, I like it because it has hardly any peformance hit when I forget to turn it off, the lic for home is for all your computers, and if you ask a question you get a quick responce from tech support. There's no flashy GUI nice simple controls.

[superart]

how quikly do htey update virus definitions?

[gogo]

there are updates just about every day lately., though I can say updates for what viri

www.f-prot.com

it'll tellyou for sure

[SysCrusher]

Originally Posted by gogo

Been using that too, I like it because it has hardly any peformance hit when I forget to turn it off, the lic for home is for all your computers, and if you ask a question you get a quick responce from tech support. There's no flashy GUI nice simple controls.

That's the biggest reason I like it. Pay once for all your pc's in the house.
The updates have been almost every day lately for me too. For the price, you can't beat it.

[superart]

damn i wish i would have heard of that before dropping $99 on systemworks, which does a great job of making my computer slower.

[Althornin]

Symantec Corporate (Norton Corporate).
The corporate AV's pwn.

[resago]

Originally Posted by Varsis

was that really a tough question, if you want mainstream AV you take nortons.
you take mcafee if a gorilla is threatening to rape you.

I second that. McCrappy can destroy a new windows install.

although I hear a good gorilla is better than a colonic

[gogo]

Digging up old threads to bring us out of the woodwork?

[Joe]

hehe Nice

and if I had a choice between Norton or McAfee, I would choose Trend

[Nugit]

Had been using norton for years but I recently switched to Avast. Haven't noticed much of a difference, it detected some illegal code (not virus) that norton didn't other than that, nothing much different.

Seriously, haven't had any spyware or virus warnings for the last year or so. Reckon, as long as one sticks to "decent" webpages and has a good firewall, it wouldn't be a prob to run without anti-v and antispyware.
But Guess we're all a bit paranoid and use the programs anyways.

[bobkoure]

I've been sticking with Norton AV 2003 as it grew in footprint with the "upgrade" to the 2004 version. Later ones seem bigger yet.
I keep hearing about NOD 32 being both good and not taking much in the way of system resources - so I plan on trying it.
Of course, there's also Clam AV (open source) - there's also a ClamAV SMTP filter which is of interest if you're running your own SMTP server (which I am, but more for IMAP than anything else).

[Angry_Steel]

Nortons? Mcafee?.....plenty of other non-invasive non-bloatware out there to pick from. The problem with both of those is summed up in the phrase "Jack of all Trades, and Master of none."

The only Symantec product that a lot of people would swear buy is the Corporate version of the AV, but since Im not in a Corporate enviroment where I have to worry about other peoples ignorance of security risks, there are much better programs.

[mikoto]

Been running AVG free seems like forever. Used to be some UI probs, but since have been fixed. Anyway, nary a virus, updates daily no need to even click. Seems to have very small footprint. Gets my vote.

[Disposibleteen]

AVG gets my vote as well. Small footprint and automatic updates makes this app great. I have been running this for about a year and a half now and like it more everyday.

[Aronj66]

Trend and Panda Are my top 2 choices for AV. Trend has been #1 in speed of update releases.. Panda is #2 or 3, I don't use the personal Pc packages much, but the corp. versions are great. All the major names in AV do the job, just a matter of how fast the company is at getting the latest updates out, and how much the software impacts the machine its installed on... Symantec and McAfee have a reputation for being the most system hogging installs out.

[Marci]

Meh - had that many systems in for repair / disinfection with fully up-to-date Norton installs on that I've no confidence in their software anymore.

Norton is only good if the user has an ounce of common sense, otherwise, you can still infect yerself.

McAfee vScan8i Corporate here... s'caught stuff that Norton, AVG, Avast, Trend & Panda have all let thru. I won't use anything else now...

[bobkoure]

I had a couple of systems hit when running Norton as well - but these were folks who clicked on the "you've visited illegal websites" attachments when they first appeared - but before a NAV update got to their PCs.
The systems behind NAV server-based filters (brightmail+NAV, BTW) were not hit. The server based filter has a "heuristic" processing feature (that uses a lot of cycles, also BTW) that seems to have caught all of these - or maybe the folks at those sites have better sense.
Speaking of "having better sense" - I was working at a software development company when the "I love you" virus came out. Lots of folks in sales/marketing/administration got hit. Not a single developer...

As a total-off-topic: for a short while at that company I mentioned above, the head of sales got put in charge of all development (about fifty developers). We'd been having regular get togethers (lunchtime pizza plus presentation so we were all sitting down watching the podium). The new director of development got to the front of the room and tried to get us all motivated. He was trying to use a combination of fear and greed - which must have worked for him in the past - but on sales people. Realizing what was going on, and curious about audience reaction (I've tried hard through my career to avoid managerial positions, but still know a little bit about that makes developers interested in a task), I moved to a point where I could see the developers' faces: boredom, puzzlement, disgust - or maybe contempt. That director got moved back to sales a couple of weeks later... Note - not an anti-sales-person rant, I just found the differing motivations interesting.

[Marci]

Indeed - tend to find sales n' techies don't get on well for similar reasons - I know I can't stand stereotypical sales guys n' the designer label crowd... (which seem to become one and the same round here)...

[ricecrispi]

Trend micro and kasprovs antivirus.

Trendmicro has the the best database and updates very often. They make there money on enterprise and server apps so you know their shit is good. Out of all these antivirus it will find some the others will miss.

Kasporov (cant spell it out) is very fast program for virus scans on hard drive. Good for a fast basic scan of antiviruses