Avira free or Norton Internet Security???

[scoopeeedoo]

Hi!

I know this is the eternal question, but let me tell you about my dilemma :

Since i run Seven, i use Avira free edition + Windows Firewall & Win7 Firewall Control + Spybot

but my internet provider offers me freely Norton Internet Security 2010 with my subsciption...

I used NIS2009 (also free with subsciption) last year with XP, and had no probs in fact, but after reading more and more bad words about Norton, i decided to change...

When i think about it, it seems nuts not to take benefit from a gift from my internet provider, and now i just really don't know what to do anymore...

What's your opinion, Folks...???

Thanks in advance...

 

[jfar]

Stick with Avira IMO.

 

[jav]

People used to talk bad about Norton product line, because it had a bit bad reputation in the past.

And all those people who is still talking bad about the products are basing their statement on the words of other people who in their own turn are basing their statement on it's past history.

There is no proper evidence that this particular product is worse then any other competitors now...

So, it's up to you if you would like to follow the wave of norton haters or not.

My personal advice, go for Norton Internet Security 2010.
It's strong, easy and light product which will offer you enough protection.

And I advice even more as you are getting it for free, but first check if they are giving Norton Internet Security 2010 or Norton Anti Virus or some modified version of those products?

 

[Capt.Jack Sparrow]

Hi!

I know this is the eternal question, but let me tell you about my dilemma :

Since i run Seven, i use Avira free edition + Windows Firewall & Win7 Firewall Control + Spybot

but my internet provider offers me freely Norton Internet Security 2010 with my subsciption...

I used NIS2009 (also free with subsciption) last year with XP, and had no probs in fact, but after reading more and more bad words about Norton, i decided to change...

When i think about it, it seems nuts not to take benefit from a gift from my internet provider, and now i just really don't know what to do anymore...

What's your opinion, Folks...???

Thanks in advance...

To be honest with you IMO i won't recommend either one of them.
I would recommend Microsoft Security Essentials with Malwarebytes & WinPatrol and yes Win 7 Firewall control is good one.

Hope this helps,
Captain

 

[Victek]

Hi!

I know this is the eternal question, but let me tell you about my dilemma :

Since i run Seven, i use Avira free edition + Windows Firewall & Win7 Firewall Control + Spybot

but my internet provider offers me freely Norton Internet Security 2010 with my subscription...

I used NIS2009 (also free with subscription) last year with XP, and had no probs in fact, but after reading more and more bad words about Norton, i decided to change...

When i think about it, it seems nuts not to take benefit from a gift from my internet provider, and now i just really don't know what to do anymore...

What's your opinion, Folks...???

Thanks in advance...

.
NIS 2010 provides much more coverage then Avira Free. Since it's available to you for free I would definitely use it. I've been running NIS on all my PC's since v2009 (which as you know was a dramatic improvement over previous versions) and it has worked very well.

 

[whs]

NIS 2010 is rated #1 right now - but it is a little more heavy handed than MSE. If you get NIS for free, take it.

 

[Dinesh]

NIS 2010 is very good.

 

[Wishmaster]

The Norton Internet Security is nowhere near as bad as its made out to be.
Quite the opposite in fact, and rated one of the best this year.

IMHO, NIS 2010 hands down. Even more so if its provided free of charge.

 

[SlackerITGuy]

I really don't understand why Avira isn't as popular as Avast or MSE.

Last time I checked It had a higher detection rate than both of them, and the whole false alarm(s) 'issue' is way overblown (if not BS).

EDIT: Btw, I'd go with Avira lol.

 

[madtownidiot]

I'd go with MSE if you don't do anything risky on the internet and Comodo Internet Security if you like to go to sites at random. Comodo has a higher detection rate than NIS or Avira, and the firewall, for lack of better term, just rocks... only firewall I've seen that shows realtime traffic by service, application and IP, with the option to terminate any connection you choose at any time

 

[polarbear]

Hi!

I know this is the eternal question, but let me tell you about my dilemma :

Since i run Seven, i use Avira free edition + Windows Firewall & Win7 Firewall Control + Spybot

but my internet provider offers me freely Norton Internet Security 2010 with my subsciption...

I used NIS2009 (also free with subsciption) last year with XP, and had no probs in fact, but after reading more and more bad words about Norton, i decided to change...

When i think about it, it seems nuts not to take benefit from a gift from my internet provider, and now i just really don't know what to do anymore...

What's your opinion, Folks...???

Thanks in advance...

To be honest with you IMO i won't recommend either one of them.
I would recommend Microsoft Security Essentials with Malwarebytes & WinPatrol and yes Win 7 Firewall control is good one.

Hope this helps,
Captain

I agree with the Captain... I have one puter with MSE and Malwarebytes and the other with MSE and Avast... both are working perfect with its mate... and the best part is, all the software is free... GL

 

[scoopeeedoo]

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...!

 

[whs]

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.

 

[scoopeeedoo]

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.

Of course i do...
But precisely they are here at the same level of comparaison, cause of the price not entering in consideration, aren't they...
I i had to pay the price, i would even not ask me any question!

 

[DarkRhystar]

People used to talk bad about Norton product line, because it had a bit bad reputation in the past.

And all those people who is still talking bad about the products are basing their statement on the words of other people who in their own turn are basing their statement on it's past history.

There is no proper evidence that this particular product is worse then any other competitors now...

So, it's up to you if you would like to follow the wave of norton haters or not.

My personal advice, go for Norton Internet Security 2010.
It's strong, easy and light product which will offer you enough protection.

And I advice even more as you are getting it for free, but first check if they are giving Norton Internet Security 2010 or Norton Anti Virus or some modified version of those products?

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.

 

[whs]

People used to talk bad about Norton product line, because it had a bit bad reputation in the past.

And all those people who is still talking bad about the products are basing their statement on the words of other people who in their own turn are basing their statement on it's past history.

There is no proper evidence that this particular product is worse then any other competitors now...

So, it's up to you if you would like to follow the wave of norton haters or not.

My personal advice, go for Norton Internet Security 2010.
It's strong, easy and light product which will offer you enough protection.

And I advice even more as you are getting it for free, but first check if they are giving Norton Internet Security 2010 or Norton Anti Virus or some modified version of those products?

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, 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.

 

[jav]

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, isn't knowledge that's 5 years old, this is last week knowledge.

Any evidence to backup your statement?

Just to be clear, isn't knowledge that's 5 years old, this is last week knowledge.

And this is the knowledge from using NIS 2010 right now in one of my laptops.
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)

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.

this was the same thing I was looking for when choosing AV product.
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 :sarc: )


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.

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.

I will try that one some time later.. But I think I was able to restore it in the past
Maybe I am mistaken with another PC....

 

[yowanvista]

Norton IS2010

 

[scoopeeedoo]

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...

 

[whs]

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...

You make a good point. They all have their strength and weaknesses. That's why I like to scan files here. Then I get 30 different scanners to look at it.