a kennedy
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Mon Feb-01-10 01:42 PM
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Do I need both these....microsoft security essentials AND Norton 360??? |
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just curious, heard about the microsoft security essentials and my Norton 360 will run out in April.....and I wonder if I need both for protection. :shrug: Thank you.
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hobbit709
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Mon Feb-01-10 05:30 PM
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1. Norton's about as useful as a screen door on a submarine. |
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Nothing would almost be better than Norton. Try AVG or Avast or most any other good antivirus app. 90% of the infected computers I work on have Norton-for what good it did them.
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Mon Feb-01-10 05:43 PM
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2. MSE is a full antivirus suite and good replacement for Norton, also rated as good as Avast and AVG. |
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Mon Feb-01-10 07:05 PM
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3. Been using MSE for a few months now, works very well |
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and, as someone else posted, it is free and rates as good as many of the other anti virus programs. I also run Malwarebytes manually every few days.
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Mon Feb-01-10 08:29 PM
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4. Why oh why does anyone use Norton? n/t |
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Mon Feb-01-10 08:44 PM
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6. They pay the manufactures to load it on new PC's or laptops. Problem starts at trying to get people |
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to renew for pay at the end of a yr. Virus writers then target outdated machines with old Norton software.
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Mon Feb-01-10 09:28 PM
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8. That may be part of the problem. But my experience with Norton that their |
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Support people were clueless, and would make sugestions that were not helpful.
One of them didn't know that a person could opt to have a CD or DVD with the program sent in the mail for the customer's use.
Another didn't know really simple things about the program. (And of course they are supposed to be the experts.)
If the folks writing their code are as inept as the people manning the customer service phone lines, then I can understand why security experts have made fun of Norton for years.
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CK_John
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Mon Feb-01-10 09:34 PM
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9. Norton was bought out and everyone is basically in sales. n/t |
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Mon Feb-01-10 08:43 PM
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5. Please, please, please uninstall Norton |
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Norton itself is almost as bad as a virus, and they blackmail people into giving them money every year for a "subscription". I've been using Avast (free), Malwarebytes (free) for years and haven't had a single virus.
I've heard good things bout MSE, but I've never used it, so I can't provide any recommendation, positive or negative, about it.
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Mon Feb-01-10 08:50 PM
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7. Visit Norton removal page to get tool to remove Norton. Link follows |
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< http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039> This does a good job and seems to remove and not leave anything behind.
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a kennedy
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Tue Feb-02-10 06:57 AM
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10. wow, had no idea, and it was on my computer when purchased.... |
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will use this site to remove norton....and thank you so much.
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Sun Feb-14-10 03:56 PM
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15. There's a lot of crapware on commercial computers these days |
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The sellers of this crapware pay the computer manufacturers to include this crap on their systems so it kinda offsets the Windows Tax. But the first thing I always do is clean all that crap off my system before I start using it.
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a kennedy
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Tue Feb-02-10 08:53 AM
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11. again thanks to all who responded..... |
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I'm now norton free, and a proud FREE owner of Microsoft security essentials..... :grouphug: thanks again.
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Sun Feb-14-10 09:36 AM
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12. Can MSFT Secdurity Essentials run in tandem with AVG? |
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Or would it be a redundant use of resoures?
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Sun Feb-14-10 10:01 AM
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13. You can only have 1 antivirus software on your machine at a time. You can have several antispyware |
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programs. This causes confusion so it is up to the user to learn how to seperate them. Antivirus software runs at the most basic layer of the computer. There is only one place for it to run. If you try to put 2 programs in this space they cancel each other out and will cause random error and could make your computer unuseable.
No MSE and AVG cannot be on same machine.
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Sun Feb-14-10 10:19 AM
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14. Thanks...is either better or worse? n/t |
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Sun Feb-14-10 06:33 PM
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16. A recent test I read that MSE was rated slightly higher than Avast and AVG. Which versions of each |
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I don't recall. But I have seen a lot of complaints about AVG version 9 for being bloated, and slowing down processing from prior releases of AVG.
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