Norton Antivirus 2009

[Hudson]

Anyone thinking about picking this up?

[Bludd]

I've heard the Gamer Edition is pretty good.

[Hudson]

How about Norton Utilities 2009?

[unforgiven]

I've never used the Norton/Symantec Products from the moment Peter Norton sold his company to Symantec !! , but I heard it's not good enough.

If you're looking for a reliable Antivirus , I suggest you to get Kaspersky or NOD32

** Norton Utilities (NU) alternative is TuneUp Utilities 2009 + it doesn't reduce your PC performance !! **

[Usurper]

After the years of headaches fixing the computers of friends and family that were bogged down by Norton, I wouldn't buy their product if it came with free blowjobs.

[Hudson]

Well actually the new Norton 2009 is quite fast and takes up very little system resources.

[Bludd]

Yeah, the new Norton versions seems to be pretty good.

Here's a performance review by av-comparatives

http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse/performance2008a.pdf

Note how Symantec finishes second in the overall results. I think some people are going by what used to be true before and not what is true now.

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

Well it looks like they finally not released a product that bogs down any computer.

I'd like to see a test where it compares the detection capabilities.



I havent seen anything to keep me from using Kaspersky.

[Hudson]

Well I run Kaspersky Internet Security 2009, the only reason I made the thread is because one of the bonuses of my job is Norton and other companies give me free license keys for software.. most of which I have no use for.

I was just wondering if anyone wanted/needed a free copy of Norton AV 09 or Norton Util 09.

[Scream]

I have the latest version, and it is by far the best anti-virus ever to bear the Norton name. Symantec's NAV has always been a resource hog, but no more. Easy on system resources, and gone are the scheduled scans. It now does drive scans while you are away from your PC for a while, and when you come back and start using it it stops scanning and will pick up where it left off the next time you stop using your PC for a while. Idle time scans.

Norton Utilities I wouldn't touch. The firewall is a pain in the ass...

[Hudson]

Norton AV 2009 code has been taken, but I still have the Utilities 09 serial if anyone is interested.

[Nessus]

My beef with the Norton products is that they never seem to fix anything. "Norton has foundvirus32.exe but could not fix the problem, would you like me to quarantine it?" That seems to be the only thing it ever does.

Kaspersky seems pretty on the ball though. Which reminds me I really need to resubscribe to it.

[Hudson]

I get it (KIS) for free every year, but even if I didn't I would absolutely shell out the $80 for it. Worth every penny.

[Scream]

My beef with the Norton products is that they never seem to fix anything. "Norton has foundvirus32.exe but could not fix the problem, would you like me to quarantine it?" That seems to be the only thing it ever does.

Kaspersky seems pretty on the ball though. Which reminds me I really need to resubscribe to it.

With 99.999% of what we see as "viruses" these days (more often "worms") there is nothing to fix, as there is nothing but malicious code. Quarantine or simply delete is all there is to do. It's fairly rare for a legit file to have new and malicious code written to it, and most of the time when that does happen it's data files, like Office documents, rather than executables or system files.

If your AV is doing a good job with real time scanning, you should pretty much never run into the situation of a legit file being "infected".

[unforgiven]

if you ask me antivirus is useless ( however it could protect your PC against the ordinary threads ) , I can modify a Trojan's Executable File Header and no today's antivirus could detect that , if you need the demonstration just tell me :D

Kaspersky has powerful Virus Detection engine , it could unpack the high packed executable file and analyze the code but anti viruses like McAfee or Symantec only scans the Header of Executable File and don't have ability to Unpack the unusual Packed files.

as I know Eugene Kaspersky was Cracker in Russian Ministry of Defence and the KGB , LoL

I have NOD32 Smart Security and I'm happy with it :D

[Rumble]

I am using Norton Internet Security 2009 and it is very fast and takes up hardly any system resources. It was built from the ground up for 2009 and the Maximum PC review/compare of a/v suites found it to be the best.

[Usurper]

Ok, so this year the dog groomer is really neat and professional, but the last six years he shaved your dog bald. You could go with the groomer that previously effed up and deserves your ire, or go with another groomer who does just as good a job and has always been at the top of his game.

I'm just saying.

[Bludd]

What you are saying is that no one is allowed to improve.

[Scream]

if you ask me antivirus is useless ( however it could protect your PC against the ordinary threads ) , I can modify a Trojan's Executable File Header and no today's antivirus could detect that

And once a few of them had been submitted to them they'd call it a "variant" of the original and release a definition for it. The problem with most AV is that it's very reactive. You always have to hope that someone else will get infected before you so that an update can be produced to protect you from the latest problem. Works ok for companies like Symantec that have a huge install base to gather samples from, but it's still reactive by nature.

[peoplessi]

Most of them have heuristics that detected such minor changes.

On topic, the newest Norton has gotten better reviews :)