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Results for today :
Avira : 2 points,
NIS : 5 points,
Others (MSE) : 3 points...
Thanks guys for your advices, waiting for more opinions...
Very interesting battle...!
Last edited by scoopeeedoo; 17 Feb 2010 at 10:41.
You have to consider that the voting is on the premise that NIS is free. If it were to cost the regular price year over year, I think more people (including myself) would tend towards MSE.
I don't use Norton and I don't recommend it.
Unless you're a tech enthusiast or a security aficionado, you're not likely to be running the most up-to-date versions of all your software and Norton is awful at maintaining compatibility with other applications. Often times, the hotfixes and updates will fix problems only to create more of them. Troubleshooting a system running Norton quickly becomes a painful process because no version of Norton ever seems to work with everything.
The ideal security system to me is one that you can turn on and forget it exists. This means a low memory footprint, non-invasive security measures, and no compatibility issues. Norton doesn't achieve any of those and it's a costly investment at that.
Just to be clear, this isn't knowledge that's 5 years old, this is last week knowledge.
What you say about Norton may have been true years back. But I was using NIS 09 on 3 systems and never had a problem. I think they really cleaned up their act. And right now it is considered the Nr.1 security suite in most professional tests I read. One problem though that seems to remain is an incompatibility with system restore. There were reports that Norton prevented the system to be restored from restore points (shadows). I have no own experience with that because I restore from Ghost and Macrium images.
Any evidence to backup your statement?
And this is the knowledge from using NIS 2010 right now in one of my laptops.Just to be clear, isn't knowledge that's 5 years old, this is last week knowledge.
And believe I have enough experience and knowledge to tell difference between products.
And I can't tell if something is incompatible in my system. And there was only one (Google Chrome with Applocker, which I fixed.. (anyway, it's nothing to do with NIS)
this was the same thing I was looking for when choosing AV product.The ideal security system to me is one that you can turn on and forget it exists. This means a low memory footprint, non-invasive security measures, and no compatibility issues. Norton doesn't achieve any of those and it's a costly investment at that.
As I already mentioned my main security approach is based on AppLocker (so theoretically I don't even need real-time AV). That's why I looked for set and forget and low footprint.
And believe me NIS achieved it.
Facts?
As I already mentioned, I had no compatibility issues.
It auto updates almost every hour. (or sometimes 30 minutes)
It's firewall doesn't bother me, as it's automatic settings works really good.
Email Protection, Sonar detection, Insight network scan and so on...
Idle time scanning works really good.... (it will do background task while I am away of my PC)
Full Screen detection, detects all programs I want it to detect without even me manually setting them
and so on.....
And not big perfomance hit... And belive I notice when there is perfomance hit as I do heavy gaming (and that's when one can notice it, not average users who only use their browser and complain about RAM usage of their AV )
Anyway, I am not going to start war.
Tastes different, and people experience same products different ways.
I have seen great products which were bad on my setup....
But still if he is getting it for free I would recommend it.
Thank you for your information, so now choice remains after OP after reading both sides of the story.
I will try that one some time later.. But I think I was able to restore it in the pastwhs said:
Maybe I am mistaken with another PC....
Norton IS2010
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Anyway, I am not going to start war.
Tastes different, and people experience same products different ways.
I have seen great products which were bad on my setup....
Of course!!! I think there's not really ONE good solution...
I had probs last year with a cd that i scanned first with... Malwarebytes...! I had to format my pc after that...
However it was my most trusted tools to search malwares...
I tested the cd then with NIS2009 (i was running it at that time...) and he found the threat...
On another side, since i use Avira, he found suspicious files never seen by Norton...