Norton vs. McAfee

[poslushnik]

I got Norton Antivirus with my R51 Thinkpad. I can also download McAfee from my university software destribution. Which one would you recommend to use? Using both seems to be not to good for speed (eats RAM I guess).

 

[Shad0hawK]

etrust is bettter than both

 

[Schadenfroh]

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McAfee, Virus data file v4382 created Jul 28 2004:
756 Possible Viruses/malware/Trojans Found in 745 files out of a total of 758 files!
Approximately 98.28% detection. (Based on number of infected files, not number of infections)

Symantec's Norton Antivirus, 7/30/2004:
740 Possible Viruses/malware/Trojans Found in 701 files out of a total of 758 files!
Approximately 92.48% detection. (Based on number of infected files, not number of infections)

eTrust Anti-Virus, 30-07-2004:
575 Possible Viruses/malware/Trojans Found in 576 files out of a total of 758 files!
Approximately 75.99% detection. (Based on number of infected files, not number of infections)
585 Possible Viruses/malware/Trojans Found using non-standard scan!

Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Updated: 30-07-2004:
756 Possible Viruses/malware/Trojans Found in 750 files out of a total of 758 files!
Approximately 98.94% detection. (Based on number of infected files, not number of infections)

 

[poslushnik]

Oh, so McAfee is good. It does not compare it with Norton though.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: poslushnik
Oh, so McAfee is good. It does not compare it with Norton though.

Norton is Symantec

 

[poslushnik]

Ups, right.

I have Norton only for half a year for free, after that I'll install McAfee. However it seems that i'd better switch to McAfee right now.

Do you think firewall like ZoneAlarm is crucial? My friend disadvises me having it since it slows web down.

 

[simms]

Wow, that's a good link. I used to use ZAP, but I find a proxy better for security...

 

[Cheetah8799]

Originally posted by: poslushnik
I got Norton Antivirus with my R51 Thinkpad. I can also download McAfee from my university software destribution. Which one would you recommend to use? Using both seems to be not to good for speed (eats RAM I guess).

The Norton version you have is probably a retail/consumer version with a limited virus definition download period. THen you'll probably have to pay for updates.

If your school is like the one I work at, they may be using the Enterprise version of McAfee, which lets you get the updated DAT files for free, forever.


Don't use both, very bad. They don't get along well together...