Don't apologize... That would make me a troll too!
I've had bad experiences with Norton too - most people did during those crazy years - but I managed to keep an open mind...........and I'm glad I did because they're back with a very sleek product. Go read some of the reviews.
I think I will.. when my year is up with Eset I may do the free month of a few of them consecutively so I can give all of them a real try again... maybe I can get a good 6 months free protection before I actually have to buy one too... lol...
AVG is the best I've come across so far. I recommend paying for the full version as well. It doesn't interfere with your daily computing and it seems to catch just about everything.
Saved my compy when I let a nephew play online for a bit. No nekkid pictures, but he hit a ton of warez sites and other disreputable".ru" domains. Now I know better for when I have my own kids.
True. However, the Trend Micro package includes the "removal" program as part of the package (no separate download needed). But do they tell you about it? Not unless you ask exactly the right question, and in exactly the right way.
Norton`s newest Ghost software package is one of the most bloated and weavelling (! i.e. burrowing, embedding) bits of code I have seen. This is Norton`s standard, so I wouldn`t be hopeful about other packages they produce. Ghost served its purpose and is now exorcised & banished to the box, away from my system...
That simply for a tool that copies drive data bit for bit.
amzing how this thread kept on going on and on aftear I left.
now that's too bad... I games my system... so that would ruin them I'm sure...
the threads tend to take a life of their own around here... no one can predict a direction they'll go in.... lol
Use firefox, and turn off java script. For me that's cut down on 99% of the bugs.
AVAST....
www.avast.com and its free...
Avast almost destroyed me, so it's AVG for me
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I never had a problem with it.
Now with 72 replies out there, I think you can GUESS!!!!! the best for you . LoL
What about reviews at www.download.com or a Poll...
I installed it a while back, and it was just crazy, apart from the creepy alien voice that comes out of it, it gave me a zillion popups, asking me questions every few seconds, very insane UI, I didn't know wtf was going on, and then it wouldn't shut down, so I turned off the pc, before it had a chance to send Daath Vader after me
Oh, and it said that basically every game I owned was a virus
The new ESET comes with a personal firewall. I have never used a better anti-virus, anti-spyware system and the price for 3 years of updates was $19.00 per year.
Norton Internet Security 2009 is a slick lean antimalware machine. The 2008 version worked really well too.
It would be a great world if people stuck to RECENT facts when trying to help out, rather than express their opinion on the several years old version of some software they used and hated.
Read some reviews on the latest norton suite, and you'll quickly see a trend of really impressed people.
As for ESET, I think it's a mature and good suite. But it's lagging behind on malware detection. ESET is a good 4.3% behind Norton 2009 in detecting existing malware (http://www.virusbtn.com/news/2008/09_02). And like ESET, Norton 2009 scores 0 false positives...