Norton AntiVirus Gaming Edition

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m4cc45 said:
An antivirus, primarily, is for security. It doesn't matter how fast your PC goes, how great you can play games it matters more, surely, that your PC is secure.
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Depends on what you use your PC for I guess.
I built my PC to play games on first and foremost; I'd rather have a fast gaming rig with lax security than something locked up tighter than Fort Knox which can't run all my games.
 
m4cc45 said:
And you've used this version? They're not saying there old version is crappy they're saying that this version is aimed at gamers and makes sure that if you're in the middle of the game that stuff like scans, updates, etc. are delayed until you've finished. Yes you can manually turn them off but a lot of people would forget.

An antivirus, primarily, is for security. It doesn't matter how fast your PC goes, how great you can play games it matters more, surely, that your PC is secure.

You can get AVG, AVast ant many others which are fine (though personally I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole). But remember that they also do payed for products. So you have to ask yourself what the difference is between the payed for and free products - I mean if the free versions were just as good as the paid for ones then surely all Enterprise customers would use them. However they purposely delay new definitions, horrid support and a multitude of other ways to get you to pay.

The updates would cause problems as it uses any and all bandwidth to obtain them and then updates the database. Simply changing the update schedule to first thing in the morning would be the best idea.

I, personally, use Symantec Corporate edition which is superb. I have, previously, used Norton and had no real problems with it. It does what it says on the tin and for the less savvy people out there takes a lot of guess work out of AV and security.



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The free versions of those products are as good as the commercial versions. The reason that Enterprise customers don't use them is because they can't. AVG is free for home use, and using it for anything else is a breach of their license agreement. You also don't get anti-malware checks with the free versions, but Spybot Search and Destroy and Ad-Aware soon sorts that. Surely you can't be saying that because they're also free, that they're not good?

I've been working in the IT industry for over 10 years and can safely say that most free products are better than their paid counter-parts. Norton and McAfee (as examples) follow the trend of buying out smaller AV companies and absorbing their software into their newer products. Most of the time that this has happened, it has created no end of problems. SiteAdvisor in the latest incarnations of McAfee is one such example of a crappy coded addon that hasn't been designed by McAfee's programmers, they've simply taken the code out of another product and used it in their own after buying that product. It simply doesn't work and in actual fact prevents users from accessing webpages. This has been fixed in an update a few months ago, but it was broken for over 6 months. Only solution was to uninstall McAfee as they wouldn't even admit to there being an issue despite me being involved with several customers that were experiencing the exact same issues with the exact same version of McAfee.

So in essence, I disagree with your above statement that the free versions can't be as good. I've never had any issues with AVG Free, my mother uses it, I have it on all my PC's at home, I recommend it to all my friends, and I've yet to experience issues with any of them. Oh, and it uses so few resources that my system is barely affected by anything. Even updating when playing a game has no effect on my gaming.

Purely put, this is another scam by Norton but unfortunately, the purple shirt brigade and such-like will push it onto all those that don't have the inclination to think otherwise, and it will most likely be a massive hit with those not in the know.
 
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Hands up who has ever had a virus that has infected their computer?

I've not, but I like the safeguard of Avast 64 bit.
 
roadie said:
Hands up who has ever had a virus that has infected their computer?

I've not, but I like the safeguard of Avast 64 bit.
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i have, but it was in the early days of my PC owning days(1995/96) when i didnt know any better
you have to be very silly these days to get one
same goes for spyware
 
Goldfingers said:
Ok I'm prepared to take some abuse here, but .... Norton anti-virus is well known to be very efficent at coping with threats, and is actually a nice little bit of software - albeit dog slow.
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Its not a nice piece of software because it is dog slow. It hogs system resources for no apparent reason (compared to other less intrusive anti virus software programs) and in my experience at least is completely useless when it actually detects a virus.

Avast Anti virus (free edition) on the other hand is great. It has the same basic functionality as its paid for big brother (ie the live scanner) but misses out on some of the other features (which would most likely only be used for business - the paid for version is the business version).
 
procrastinator said:
Use some sense and dont open it would be the answer.
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Oh right yeah use some sense problem solved :confused: after all its just like a virus warns itself before it invades your computer doesn’t it?? You cannot rely on sense at all when it comes to this type of stuff, yes okay it will help but not prevent a virus intrusion at all.
 
I dont mind paying for a decent antivirus/firewall solution, I currently have BitDefender which has been pretty well behaved. It automatically gets rid of spam in Outlook, ties in with Firefox, and automatically switches to game mode when you play which stops updates, scans and popups.

If it stops me getting even 1 or 2 viruses a year I reckon its paid for itself in the time it would take to backup your data and restore your OS, plus its dead cheap at about £20.

Having said that, I did just see this on their website...

http://www.bitdefender.com/media/html/gamesafe.html?nr_ukb_itxt_link=gamesafe_moreinfo_firstpage
 
rofl, but i had norton, i mean i think it was 2006 originally, and it worked fine, but then i got 2008, and it was terrible kept on breaking, i never really liked it,.

i must admit though i do hate it when u load a game and things pop up, specially when you first load one, and you have to allow everything on your firewall, grrrrr.

on that note though i think it was trakmania nations, where it opened up a window and connected to the internet so i could allow it before it went fullscreen, i reallly liked that i think more comapanies should do that with their games, anyway bit off topic now :P
 
roadie said:
Hands up who has ever had a virus that has infected their computer?
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Me, by a few years ago that were easily removed but I had one towards the tail-end of the summer and I've never been so stressed with a computer mishap before. I even resorted to starting a thread requesting advice: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17890205

Was a nasty bugger of a rootkit in the end, even though free-av couldn't fix it I stick with that now as Avast! let it in.

With regards this Norton junk I wouldn't entirely rule it out, might be interesting to see just how little resources it used in real terms.
 
LMAOO!! that is one quality vid!!! norton has done something i dont hate for once.

But yeah like the majority of the people here, i refuse to use their software still :P
 
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