Free Norton Antivirus 2005

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Macro2
Norton is becoming more and more bloatware every year.

I'm hearing this a lot and I'm really confused as to what the problem is? Can anyone give any specific things that Norton seems to be doing that's bad? For instance, here's a shot of my system resources with Norton running:

System Processes

It's taking less than 8MB of resident memory (MSN Messenger takes more, and Internet Explorer takes a staggering 30MB!!!). When it scans emails, processor usage may go up to 4%, and memory usage goes up to about 16MB. This seems reasonable to me...where's the bloat?

 

[Rorschach]

blueribb, are you sure that's marked as a virus and not a warning? If it's a virus you can probably just go in and delete that file, also try double clicking on the result in the AVG test results listing.

Also, Norton would pick-up tons of viruses in my incoming email before I even checked my email and AVG doesn't seem to do that. I wonder if AVG will check files downloaded from Kazaa automatically or do I have to scan each one manually ?

AVG cleans out your email as it downloads, you'll see that it removes some attachments if they're dangerous and it will sometimes pop up boxes saying that activex controls are being blocked. As for Kazaa, if you have the real-time virus checking enabled AVG will usually warn you about a virus a few minutes after it's downloaded. Also if you go to your download directory if will warn you before you have a chance to open the infected file. It seems like there's a virus in most kazaa executable downloads and AVG always snags them in my experience.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Rorschach
blueribb, are you sure that's marked as a virus and not a warning? If it's a virus you can probably just go in and delete that file, also try double clicking on the result in the AVG test results listing.

Also, Norton would pick-up tons of viruses in my incoming email before I even checked my email and AVG doesn't seem to do that. I wonder if AVG will check files downloaded from Kazaa automatically or do I have to scan each one manually ?

AVG cleans out your email as it downloads, you'll see that it removes some attachments if they're dangerous and it will sometimes pop up boxes saying that activex controls are being blocked. As for Kazaa, if you have the real-time virus checking enabled AVG will usually warn you about a virus a few minutes after it's downloaded. Also if you go to your download directory if will warn you before you have a chance to open the infected file. It seems like there's a virus in most kazaa executable downloads and AVG always snags them in my experience.

Norton also has email scanning. Most ISP's these days will scan your mail before it gets to you as well(unless you're using someone's free email, which in that case you're on your own).

 

[blueribb]

I uninstalled AVG and went back to Norton. I feel much safer now. AVG in my opinion is not ready for prime time.

It identified a virus on my computer but did not attempt to delete or clean it. It gave no information about it and gave no suggestion.

It just said my computer is "still infected". That's all.

I ran Norton and it did not find it.

I'm wondering if AVG mis-identified it in the first place.

 

[Slickone]

Originally posted by: MrCoyote
[snip]
The same can be said about the state of the music industry... *sigh*
Support developers and pay for their software, even if it's "free/shareware".

There have been several articles in the last year that point out how illegal music downloading hasn't hurt CD sales. I know with me, it's actually helped, since I've bought CD's I wouldn't have if I couldn't have heard a few songs from the CD first. There was a good article or two that I can't find. Here are others.
Link. Oh well

Originally posted by: blueribb
I uninstalled AVG and went back to Norton. I feel much safer now. AVG in my opinion is not ready for prime time.

It identified a virus on my computer but did not attempt to delete or clean it. It gave no information about it and gave no suggestion.

It just said my computer is "still infected". That's all.

I ran Norton and it did not find it.

I'm wondering if AVG mis-identified it in the first place.

As somone suggested, why couldnt you just delete the file yourself? Some people would rather have the option to delete the file themselves rather than it do it automatically. What if it was a false positive and deleted it automatically?

 

[blueribb]

Slickone said:

As somone suggested, why couldnt you just delete the file yourself? Some people would rather have the option to delete the file themselves rather than it do it automatically. What if it was a false positive and deleted it automatically?

Well, the reason I didn't just delete the file is because I found no reference to it doing a google search. It is located within a zip file as I posted earlier. I don't feel it's really a virus as AVG claimed.

 

[FreakyGuy]

nm

 

[Macro2]

Norton let through some trojans. I installed AVG and it found 3 more Norton was missing.
Now I run AVG on all the computers in the office. From time to time I'll run Panda Active scan. The difference there is that Panda finds E-mail viruses before you attempt to open them.

I also run TDS-3 trojan defense suite and wormguard, zone alarm and a router.

Still, you go messing around on Kaaza you get a virus or an attempt to give you one.

 

[blueribb]

I just downloaded and tried the Free Norton Antivirus 2005 beta. It required me to uninstall an older version of Norton before it would install.

After it completed it said it was valid for 1 year (not 30 days).

After installation, it ran a liveupdate and full virus scan by default.
It did not find the one mysterious virus that AVG said it found.

Go figure

 

[beserker15]

wow...same here...it's giving me a year. this would make the deal pretty hot!!!

 

[Slickone]

How is it (NAV05)? Intrusive, bloated, memory footprint? No product activation junk in the beta, right?