Norton needs Renewing

magick · 9 Jul 2011 at 22:35

My mums pc has Norton IS 2011 and it only has 10 days remaining. Should she renew £25 for 1 year (3 PCs) or is there any better offers, programs out there?

MarcLister · 9 Jul 2011 at 22:39

NOD32 (either AV or Smart Security if your Mum needs a software firewall) or Kaspersky are the two popular pay for AV suites. Avast or MSE are pretty popular in the free category.

magick · 9 Jul 2011 at 22:42

MarcLister said:
NOD32 (either AV or Smart Security if your Mum needs a software firewall) or Kaspersky are the two popular pay for AV suites. Avast or MSE are pretty popular in the free category.

Kapersky is £15 more though I have heard its better. Basicaly she just wants her pc to be secure for online banking. My main concern is that she'll get another 1 years supercription for NIS2011 then NIS2012 comes out in 4 months or something.

smogsy · 9 Jul 2011 at 22:46

you can get kis 2011 3 users for £15 i did from ocuk

EDIT looks like they only sell retail check another site for oem version it goes for £15

magick · 9 Jul 2011 at 22:48

smogsy said:
you can get kis 2011 3 users for £15 i did from ocuk

its gone up now to £23.99 plus postage and hassle of waiting for delivery. Then I'll have to come down and install it for her and unistall Norton which use to problematic to unistall. Hence why i'm thinking it might be better for her to stick with Norton?

KIA · 10 Jul 2011 at 01:48

Ditch the payware and install MSE.

G-MAN2004 · 10 Jul 2011 at 01:50

NOD32 for sure.

Just use MyUninstaller to get rid of Norton. It won't leave a trace.

gothic_hobbit · 10 Jul 2011 at 02:01

Norton is bloatware.

Install Avast instead !

troops · 10 Jul 2011 at 03:27

Nod32 ere aswell

NuclearWinter · 10 Jul 2011 at 03:37

gothic_hobbit said:
Norton is bloatware.

Install Avast instead !

This isn't 2005 anymore, Norton has been an excellent product for the last couple of years now and is very respectable when it comes to impact on system performance.

Take a look through the extensive benchmarks on Raymond.cc:

http://www.raymond.cc/antivirus/

ShakenNstirred · 10 Jul 2011 at 06:29

install MSE

ooEy · 10 Jul 2011 at 07:47

MSE is not any good, it was but then Microsoft helped to take down that Russian spam ring now viruses are getting written specifically for MSE. AVG is rubbish too but Id stick that on a PC before MSE.

Go for Kaspersky IS, download and install the 30 day trial and then activate it with the serial you get from the oem/retail when it arrives (or a day before the trial ends).

Duke · 10 Jul 2011 at 09:16

KIS or NOD32 would be my choice

j_walsh · 10 Jul 2011 at 09:31

always used norton, never had a problem. Was on offer for 19.99 in w h smiths.

Randomface74 · 10 Jul 2011 at 09:42

Norton is bloatware, remove it.

I'd replace it with AVG Free, but there are other options.

panyan · 10 Jul 2011 at 09:45

removethat rubbish and install AVAST!

bledd · 10 Jul 2011 at 10:15

Nod32 and MSE are the only two I'd consider using now.

Broken Hope · 10 Jul 2011 at 10:29

billysielu said:
Norton is bloatware, remove it.

I'd replace it with AVG Free, but there are other options.

Except recent versions of Norton are very light, with some of the highest detection/removal rates of any AV, but yeah, stay in the past if you like.

Columbo · 10 Jul 2011 at 10:41

billysielu said:
Norton is bloatware, remove it.

I'd replace it with AVG Free, but there are other options.

Sure replace it with an AV product with one of, if not the highest false positive detection on the market.

Norton is actually a very good AV these days but so are some of the free one though such as Avast or Anti-Vir.

I really really don't like MSE though I have to say, its very resource hungry and I've seen updates take upwards of an hour to install.

jbs · 10 Jul 2011 at 10:41

People slating Norton have not used it for a while. It used to be really problematic and resource hungry, but it is now an excellent product.