My Norton Antivirus is up for renewal, do I need it?

TheWolf · Nov 26, 2009

I have always wondered this. It's $80 a year and Ive always renewed, but my cousin told me today I don't need it.

So, do I ? or is there something else that is better,cheaper, free,,etc......that I can be using? (I hate McAfee.)

doubledeuce22 · Nov 27, 2009

someone was asking the same thing at dinner today:

they recommended AVG free download.

par88 · Nov 27, 2009

Norton AV is a waste of money. Theres a good free antivirus here -
www.avast.com

JakeT. · Nov 27, 2009

Avast works great and is free.

Dante · Nov 27, 2009

http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/home-home-office/vipre/

100X better and takes very little space on your PC loads instantly..does not slow your pc down like norton and its way cheaper

Betallsports · Nov 27, 2009

AVG and Avast are Good ones......Don't know Dantes, but I'm sure it's good as well.

Almost anything is better than Norton.

kid44 · Nov 27, 2009

Avg is the best free out there. I have several friends and family that have used it for years with no problems.

Norton is a system resource sucker. If you try to delete it always leaves crap on the HD.

slapshot · Nov 27, 2009

Trend Micro :103631605

Dante · Nov 27, 2009

Betallsports said:
AVG and Avast are Good ones......Don't know Dantes, but I'm sure it's good as well.

Almost anything is better than Norton.

if its a free one you get what you pay for.... I had avast free and it missed a TON of spyware and stuff on my pc the one I use now Vipre finds it all and it does not take the speed of loading from your pc.

people wont blink an eye betting $5000 on a game but for 50$ or less to get a good virus software program we can not do that

its hilarious

louisvillekid · Nov 27, 2009

the avg free from cnet works fine for me

MIKEY.1TIME · Nov 27, 2009

avg for me works great

tatehill2000 · Nov 27, 2009

avg will slow your computer down,

Norton is GROSSLY overrated, it honestly is sht,,,

avast is good,
Malwarebyes is FREE and pretty good,

if you want a Great one it is a pay for,, it is a-squared they are the best out there, and I think I payed 39 for 1 year,,,less than 80. and they wont slow down your comp wolf.

a-squared are the only Live spyware blocker and cookie blocker, the wont let them even download.

(they block successfully all of the RX popups and spyware! haha)

tater

RobFunk · Nov 27, 2009

I'm thinking of getting rid of AVG. It does seem to slow my comp down. I liked it at first.

will.cover · Nov 27, 2009

Norton is bloatware, but the latest Norton 2009 did a better job than any of the previous NAV in terms of not slowing your computer down as much.

I use Avast. It's free, minimal on system resources, updates on its own and catches viruses, much better than that condom that broke on me last week.

barman · Nov 27, 2009

Jake T. said:
Avast works great and is free.

yep...I have had two good three good HP PCs over past ten years and never paid for antivirus (nor ever picked up a crippling virus) during that time.

quantumleap · Nov 27, 2009

I had AVG but it slowed down my computer while surfing. I disabled the Link Scanner and it's fine now.

The Link Scanner scans your web pages for viruses as you access them. This is unnecessary since AVG also scans files as they are saved to your hard drive.

Dante · Nov 27, 2009

RobFunk said:
I'm thinking of getting rid of AVG. It does seem to slow my comp down. I liked it at first.

robby trust me I thought it worked good to until I ran Vipre... avast is shit

Betallsports · Nov 27, 2009

quantumleap said:
I had AVG but it slowed down my computer while surfing. I disabled the Link Scanner and it's fine now.

The Link Scanner scans your web pages for viruses as you access them. This is unnecessary since AVG also scans files as they are saved to your hard drive.

This is what I did as well....Works Perfect ! :toast:

maxdemo · Nov 27, 2009

AVG has worked great for me...I just make sure it does its daily scan when I am not on the computer.

Windows Defender is good also...once a month scan works for me....just scan when your not on the computer

Doug · Nov 27, 2009

quantumleap said:
I had AVG but it slowed down my computer while surfing. I disabled the Link Scanner and it's fine now.

The Link Scanner scans your web pages for viruses as you access them. This is unnecessary since AVG also scans files as they are saved to your hard drive.

Is it hard to disable ?

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