Is it worth renewing Norton Antivirus?

[Sidge]

My one year subscription to Norton that came with the laptop has now expired. Is it worth the money to renew it?

I also have Ad-Aware and Spybot installed, and didn't know whether I should fork out for Norton again too.

[QuintessentialShadowOfYuleTide]

Norton is in my opinion not that good.
I truly recommend McAfee, or Omniquad Total Security (have used both)which is cheaper. Comes with antispyware, privacy software and a lot more than just antivirus.

[SantaBeClausImWorthIt]

Adaware and Spybot (IME) won't pick up the stuff that Norton will - would definitely renew it.

Don't know about other programmes, but you may find it cheaper to renew Norton than start over again with another one.

Don't go without - it's not a risk worth taking.

[TwinklyfLightAttendant]

Avast is great, I asked your question a few months back, downloaded avast free, haven't looked back

the others will be along to tell you in a minute!

oh but keep spybot and adaware too. You need all of them.

[andaRubberDuckinapeartree]

Get AVG free... is as good as (if not better than) Norton and costs nothing.

Can be downloaded from here

[DoesntChristmasDragOn]

I ditched Norton in favour of Kaspersky

[TwinklyfLightAttendant]

How do you find it, Soupy?

[mumofmonSTARsOfBethlehem]

ditch norton....your puter will work a lot faster probably.

We call it snorton in our house as it takes aaaaaaaaaaages to load and you can't switch the bugger off!

We have been advised macafee (sp?) by a computer geek friend

[throckenholt]

I would vote for the free version of AVG too.

[DoesntChristmasDragOn]

Seems to be fine. It blocks 99% of the ads on Mumsnet for a start

It seems to be fairly unobtrusive and deals with threats in an efficient manner. TBH I don't notice it's there - occasionally a box pops up to say it's blocked something but once you've "trained" it to know what are trusted sites and what applications are allowed to access the internet it just gets on with the job.

[DoesntChristmasDragOn]

Was "Geek Recommended" to me

[mumofmonSTARsOfBethlehem]

soupy, if you use mozilla it will prob block the other ads as well

[DoesntChristmasDragOn]

I do use Mozilla . All the ads appear if I turn Kaspersky off (which I do if everyone's whinging about a particular ad and I want to know what it is!)

[andaRubberDuckinapeartree]

The only time I ever got a virus was when we had McAfee... and the only thing that became infected was McAfee itself... I don't particularly recommend the program

[TwinklyfLightAttendant]

ah! I wondered why I couldn't see the ads, I had forgotten what it used to look like! Avast is obv. doing the same thing, SD

I have adaware, spywareblaster, spywareguard, Comodo firewall and did have BOClean but that wasn't compatible with version 3.0 of Comodo so stopped it. Everything pretty fine now.

[Sidge]

Cheers for all your replies.

I did have AVG but it did something to my email and blocked it so it wouldn't send or receive; I'm a bit reluctant to reinstall it.

Will check out Kaspersky

[ChasingSquirrelsUpTheXmasTree]

was just thinking this myself as mine ran out yesterday - off to check out the links.
Thanks

[yelnats]

Bringing this back to active convos to see if there are any other recommendations as my norton is due to expire tonight!

[ChasingSquirrelsUpTheXmasTree]

I went with Avast (on Sat), seems ok - but then I wouldn't know what it might be letting through.

[thelittleElf]

My windows live oncecare expires tonight aswell, so this thread is great to read for recommendations.
So.....what IS the best free download to protect my pc????

[andfranksentthis]

A really good one is CA antivirus...go to their website and get the trial one for a year. #Then after a year, get the trial one again with a new email address. If you want to buy it it is only about £25 a year I think.

This is one recommended to be by a computer fanatic...

[mrspnut]

We use PC cillin from trend Micro, geek recommended (by my OH )

It's handy if you have more than one computer because the licence covers three installations.

[UnquietDad]

Norton is a big clunky beast that uses a lot of memory - waste of money. I've got Avira AntiVir and a ZoneAlarm firewall - both free.

[yelnats]

bump

[yelnats]

Any experience of Spyware Doctor?