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who has norton antivirus?

Discussion in 'Safety valve' started by squizzle, Apr 4, 2005.

  1. kyle_101

    kyle_101 Guest

    I have avg7 and i guess if it doesn't find anything then it should be ok(in theory anyway) I also run loads of other spyware, malware and adware progs so i think its lagit anyway
     
  2. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    do an online scan every so often to be sure
     
  3. kyle_101

    kyle_101 Guest

    You will do thanks for the advice ddp as always your advice is indispencable.
     
  4. vans12

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    I am not surprised at all norton sucks. use panda or trend micro or anything
     
  5. WelshBoa

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    I personally dont like Norton as it uses far too many resources and does not find viruses which other programmes have found.

    Kaspersky is a really good antivirus programme but this does tend to slow the pc down a bit with the real time scanning of web pages etc but is a lot smaller than Norton.

    Word of warning with these "online scanners". A lot of them find viruses which are not even on your PC. Its just telling you its found stuff to make you impressed with the product.

    I did the scan with PC-Illin on my existing PC and on a brand new one where a firewall was installed straight away etc.

    On both machines it apparently found a virus called *jokes.doc* or something.......

    Something that definately wasnt on the brand new machine and was very unlikely to be on the older machine as I had scanned it with some proper software
     
  6. pulsar

    pulsar Active member

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    I know a lot of people don't like reviews of products as they can be biased. I came across this site, seems fairly independant. Make up your own mind!;

    http://castlecops.com/

    Pulsar
     

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