Comments on: What Anti Virus Application do you Use?

By: Chris Magnusson

Chris Magnusson — Wed, 23 May 2007 23:51:18 +0000

There could probably be a phrase coined for Norton containing the terms “anti”, “antivirus”, and “virus”.

By: Mitchell Oke

Mitchell Oke — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:39:18 +0000

Norton has become more of a resource hog than some viruses and spyware

By: Jerry Raia

Jerry Raia — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:34:15 +0000

The strangest part of all of this is Symantec seems oblivious to it. Every new version is more bloated than the last.

By: Elo

Elo — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:28:51 +0000

I agree with Mitchell. I was a big fan of Norton suite. NIS 2003 was great and I was waiting with anticipation the next installment thinking that it would be lighter on the resources and better. That day never came and after installing NIS 2004, I was so angry: it was worse than 2003 and such a hog. I installed AVG free and never looked back. AVG is still running on my XPS M170 notebook and on my Toshiba R400 Tablet PC.

I don’t run an antivirus on my PPC yet.

By: Mitchell Oke

Mitchell Oke — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:10:40 +0000

I think Norton went off the road after 2003. Norton Internet Security 2003 was the best version that they shipped, and subsequent versions just have gotten worse and worse.

By: blueshockey69

blueshockey69 — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:21:14 +0000

I usually use Corporate NAV 10.1 on any PC, except for server setups that I have running at the house.

Also, I have been testing the Norton Mobile Security Suite for the last 2 months almost, the new system does have its good points and bad points, granted I am only looking at this from business standpoint from a mobile security standpoint for handheld devices. The one thing I love about the corporate standpoint is a device management tool from Hades, from a corporate standpoint of course, this new suite does run better then the 4.0 version they had. Still some quirks though.

By: Lex

Lex — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:14:06 +0000

I love the opportunity to share how Norton stopped supporting and providing online updates to my -two- separate licensed copies of NAV /before the subscription had expired\. Their support could have cared less and offered no recourse. I was incredulous, and I can barely spell that word ! I’ve been a happy AVG Free user ever since and I’ll never use another Symantec product. (Other than that I’m having a good week.

By: Allen Hong

Allen Hong — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:56:13 +0000

Nokia Communicators have had the Symantec Security Suite software since 2004. I use it on my Nokia 9500 and admit that I usually only have the firewall portion enabled. The resident anti-virus monitor seems to noticeably slow down the device.

By: Civisi

Civisi — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:23:54 +0000

I too use Windows OneCare Live on my XP desktop and my Vista tablet PC.

My work laptop has McAfee, but that’s not my choice.

I don’t have an AV solution on my RAZR or IPAQ. Don’t need one, either.

Something that home users should check out is Blink from eEye security. http://www.eeye.com/html/products/blink/personal/index.html

By: Christopher Spera

Christopher Spera — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:54:32 +0000

NAV or NIS (which incorporates NAV) I’ve also used McAfee, but only for a few months and that sucked.

I don’t run AV software on my mobile devices because I haven’t seen anything yet that compells me to do so…

By: Judie Lipsett Hughes

Judie Lipsett Hughes — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:47:12 +0000

I’ve always used AVG Free, but I’ve recently been enjoying Windows Live One Care, courtesy of Jerry. Thanks hon.

By: Chris Magnusson

Chris Magnusson — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:36:46 +0000

I use OneCare. It’s awesome. When it kicks in to do a scan (not just an antivirus scan, but it also defrags, checks for temporary files, and a few other things) the only reason I know it’s running is because there’s an additional icon in the system tray. As for AV on mobile devices, I’d consider it but not from Symantec.