7 Replies Latest reply: Oct 30, 2013 5:30 PM by lasvideo

Buying an Antivirus program

John T Smith Oct 27, 2013 10:01 AM

Different people use different products, I use Norton Internet Security

In the past, I have always bought a box to get a new version... this year I decided to download

Price at Norton is $40 (1 owner 3 computer) I found it for $28 at a company called antivirussales

Antivirussales also has many other brands... seems to be download only, but I did not really look for box products

Just FYI in case someone is looking for a good place to buy an antivirus program

1. Re: Buying an Antivirus program

Steven L. Gotz Oct 27, 2013 11:52 AM (in response to John T Smith)

John,

My Comcast Cable gives away Norton for free.

AT&T U-Verse gives away McAfee. I believe that Verizon FiOS charges for protection.

Check to make sure that you don't get it free before you go out and pay for it.
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Biggles Lamb Oct 28, 2013 4:23 AM (in response to John T Smith)

Personally I avoid Norton, I have had too many problems with PC's and laptops with it installed.

I have used Kasperski for the last three years with no problem, I have also found it best not to take the web download price as fixed.

Ring them up and haggle, I got three years subscription for the price of two on a license that covers 5 items.

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Ann Bens Oct 28, 2013 5:33 AM (in response to Biggles Lamb)

Ditto no Norton for me, it interferes with everything, makes pc slow.
Switched to Norman; ditch that one too (same issue).
Now on Panda and Malwarebyte. Both for free.
Everything is running smooth.
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John T Smith Oct 28, 2013 8:39 AM (in response to Steven L. Gotz)

>gives away Norton for free

Nothing free from my ISP... we also use NIS as a password manager (login to NIS once, and it fills in logins on sites we visit) and I have even used the NIS startup manager to "trim" my Win7 startup list

I don't find NIS to be slow... YMMV and all that
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Steven L. Gotz Oct 28, 2013 9:29 AM (in response to John T Smith)

I thought almost all of the ISPs were giving away virus protection just to avoid the hassles of irritated customers.

I certainly like it!

As for Norton, I am not seeing any problems with it. Never have. Then again, my PC and my Internet connection are both fairly robust.
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Euklide Oct 30, 2013 8:35 AM (in response to John T Smith)

I've tried several AV utilities and I've always returned to ESET Smart Security (NOD 32).
I'm using it for about 15 years -it's effective and the most lightweight for the PC.
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lasvideo Oct 30, 2013 5:30 PM (in response to Euklide)

I stopped using Norton years ago. I found it created lots of issues. Vendors that design and build turnkey edit systems have warned me away as well. I use Microsoft Security Tools. Its free and very "light weight".
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