norton and re formatting

[Jobe]

ok so i know most of you will lambast me for using said product but i feel safe using it so there.
there is an upside to it tho..........

when you re-format at semi regular intervals, say every 6 months or so, and re install norton, it thinks it's a new copy and you get another years subscription.

Mine should have run out over the christmas holidays but is ok until the summer.

Morally i feel fine cos it costs about £40 to re subscribe when you can get an oem copy for about £20, like it is in 'this week only'

Jobe

 

[hp7909]

ok so i know most of you will lambast me for using said product but i feel safe using it so there{snip}

You feel, but does your PC?

Anyway, same thing used to happen to me. Don't know if its some form of (good/bad) loophole

 

[bledd]

norton is rubbish simple as

download a trial of nod32 from nod32.com


it doesn't hold back your pc like norton does and every week people ask me to fix their pc's, 90% of them have norton on their pc, and they're packed with spyware and viruses (or viraii if you're fussy )

one quick run of nod32, followed by windowsdefender + spybot finds loads of crap

norton uses about 8 processes/services, nod32 uses 2

 

[t31os]

ok so i know most of you will lambast me for using said product but i feel safe using it so there.
there is an upside to it tho..........

when you re-format at semi regular intervals, say every 6 months or so, and re install norton, it thinks it's a new copy and you get another years subscription.

Mine should have run out over the christmas holidays but is ok until the summer.

Morally i feel fine cos it costs about £40 to re subscribe when you can get an oem copy for about £20, like it is in 'this week only'

Jobe

Yep you can do that with any Norton or Mcafee disk that gives you 1 year free.

Opted for nod32 myself.... mcafee and norton have both let me down in the past and bog the pc down more also.

 

[rickyt]

I've never been a lover of Norton or McAfee as I find them to intrusive on your system .I had used Panda for three years but I refuse to pay £49 a year . As I run mulitiple systems it works out expensive. I got three genuine versions of Norton Anti-Virus [Basic] given to me a couple of years ago .I can honestly say I've had no problems with them , it stops loads of things , scans my e-mails and used with Comodo Firewall my system seems bulletproof. But , the best thing is , when I format or re-build and re-install my Norton I get another year's subsription . I dont know whether these are a special or corp edition or what [there is a key that comes with it]. I dont understand how I can keep getting another years subs for nowt , but I'm not complaining. I can even have one copy on two Pc's and still get updates ,these are never on the net at the same time though.