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Anti-virus software - Which one?!?!?!?!?

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landyman Ash:
Its that time of year when everywhere 5 mins my anti virus softeware is telling me in a pop up that if if I dont renew it the world around me is going to collapse......


....so.  Which one?  Do I stick with Norton or do I swop.  Whats the general trend?

thermidorthelobster:
I use Grisoft on my PC, because they don't charge you through the nose, and the software seems tickety boo.

I fell out with Symantec a couple of years back when I wanted to reinstall the software, and they told me I didn't own the right to do that - apparently I'd not bought the software from them, I'd paid for the privilege of using it once.  So screw them then!

TimM:

--- Quote from: "thermidorthelobster" ---I fell out with Symantec a couple of years back when I wanted to reinstall the software, and they told me I didn't own the right to do that - apparently I'd not bought the software from them, I'd paid for the privilege of using it once.  So screw them then!
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I found them to be totally the opposite, I started off with their Norton antivirus a few years ago when I 'borrowed' ( :oops: ) my Dads disk - it let me install it, never asked for any passwords or authentication, logged me on to the web updates and after a year invited my to renew my subscription for the $ equivalent of £3-4.

I have stayed with them but have now bought legitimate ( :D ) copies and am now running Norton Internet Security 2005. This has antivirus and a firewall and a host of other things which you don't particularly notice that you have, but can rest assured that they are working.

 :wink:

Thrasher:
As a user you might not notice NIS 2005 running, but as a computer techy I despise it - it hogs the processor, slows down the PC and generally messes with the software I write (professionally).

I use Grisfot too :-> Oh and common sense - this stops about 90% of Viri :>

hobbit:

--- Quote from: "thermidorthelobster" ---I use Grisoft on my PC, because they don't charge you through the nose, and the software seems tickety boo.


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Agreed here, also when my system went down, and lost my code, one quick email with my name and they sent the replacement code to activate their software again within a couple of hours

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