Quick Norton Renwal question

magick · 8 Jul 2010 at 12:30

Just brought a new base unit that came with a 3 month subscription to NIS 2010. only have 29 days left and thinking of renewing for 12 months. Online renewal from Norton costs £39.99 however shopping around from various sites including this one I can buy the disc version for less than £20 including delivery.

Do the disc versions come with the full 12 months?

Also do I have to uninstall my current version and the reinstall again or do I just enter the cd key on the subscription box in NIS?

Is there any difference between OEM and Retail boxed versions?

andicole0 · 8 Jul 2010 at 12:34

Don't most people avoid Norton and McAfee? I think most just use AVG or similar. I'm seeing how Microsoft Security Essentials goes at the moment, seems OK.

Andi.

RJC · 8 Jul 2010 at 12:35

Using MSE after Kaspersky run out, seems to be pretty good.

There is a big sticky regards Anti-virus at the top:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18115179

Ratbag · 8 Jul 2010 at 12:36

Yeah don't feel pressured into keeping Norton there are better freeware apps about.

SiriusB · 8 Jul 2010 at 12:39

There are far better paid apps about - NOD32 and Kaspersky being two of them. Avoid the yellow peril

Duke · 8 Jul 2010 at 13:39

SiriusB said:
There are far better paid apps about - NOD32 and Kaspersky being two of them. Avoid the yellow peril

Yep either one of these would be good. Although Norton has improved in the system resource hogging area with version 4, there are still better products on the market.

magick · 8 Jul 2010 at 13:51

Should say the PC was brought primarily for my mum but also me when I stop over. Norton works ok and silently in the background which is why i'd sooner leave that on it. I personaly don't use norton but for my mum it's simple and does the job hence why i'm enquiring about renewing the subscription for that.

robinbredin · 9 Jul 2010 at 10:12

I used to use McAfee, and used it for years. Then I started using Microsoft Security Essentials, and have found no problems with it, up to now.

Burnsy2023 · 9 Jul 2010 at 10:49

If you have Barclays current account you may have a free licence for Kespersky, which looking at the Poll in the sticky is more popular than Norton.

Meatball · 9 Jul 2010 at 11:20

Avoid Norton. If you want to pay get either Kaspersky or NOD32. If you want free you can't go wrong with MSE

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G-MAN2004 · 9 Jul 2010 at 19:07

As said, avoid Norton. I use ESET NOD32 and it's great, never had anything wrong with it.

Rroff · 9 Jul 2010 at 19:11

My mums netbook came with the obligatory 30 day versions of both (no idea why) Norton and mcAfee and I really couldn't reccomend either, bloated, intrusive software that blocked whatever they felt like, missed real threats and significantly impacted on performance while loading the OS up with a ton of crap... almost as bad as actually having malware on there.

alex24 · 9 Jul 2010 at 19:14

SiriusB said:
There are far better paid apps about - NOD32 and Kaspersky being two of them. Avoid the yellow peril

This.

Burnsy2023 said:
If you have Barclays current account you may have a free licence for Kespersky, which looking at the Poll in the sticky is more popular than Norton.

And this.

Currently using Kaspersky, find it very comprehensive, though not a big fan of the interface.

Oh, and I don't rate the free Microsoft AV very highly, needed reinstalling a few times for me, and never finds anything compared to Kaspersky on my and my families other machines. It's now been retired to something really light for my HTPC only, wouldn't use it on a main machine personally.

Ginger-Menace · 9 Jul 2010 at 19:17

avast anti virus is by far the best tht ive found and its free

Over Clocker · 9 Jul 2010 at 19:51

Norton and McAfee are the FIRST items of software to removed when we setup machines!

Bane · 9 Jul 2010 at 20:06

Cheaper versions normally come with a 1 year licence. And if you get an OEM version it can work fairly cheap, e.g. £15.99 at OcUK

When I've order them in the past you got a white paper CD sleeve with serial number sticker on the back, and CD inside. Maybe a leaflet if lucky. So nothing like the boxed picture shown on website link above.

Chaos · 10 Jul 2010 at 19:26

Some av comparisions -

http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_report25.pdf
http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_report26.pdf

m2thecuk · 12 Jul 2010 at 21:43

Was an avid NOD32 user until my license ran out recently, had heard nothing but good things about Microsoft Security Essentials and decided to give it ago....haven't looked back since, give it ago what have you got to lose.