Norton Internet Security 2011 vs Avast! Free 5.0

Wishmaster · 14 Sep 2010

Shadowjk said:

But that is more Secure because is NIS Or any Norton product will have a Trust Level and when a Program is trusted it will skip that File when Scanning This is good but it can miss a Virus that could be Attached to the File that is Trusted

Not exactly. NIS still does full File Scans periodically.

If it Done a Full File scan say, yesterday, then today if a 'Trusted" file has not changed since that last "Full' scan it gets skipped.
If it changed for some reason, it would have been scanned at the time of change.
And, (I think its weekly Ill have to check), A full scan runs. meaning Everything gets scanned again.

On top of all this you also have SONAR3.

I wouldn't call it less secure by any means.

Shadowjk · 14 Sep 2010

Yeah I suppose your Right

antares · 20 Sep 2010

NIS has one of the best, if not THE best firewall in the market. Antimalware is a whole different issue, Norton not very good in this, I'd suggest Avira, Avast, MSE.

javelin009 · 20 Sep 2010

I recently installed internet explorer 9 beta on my windows 7 laptop. I am using norton internet security 2010 and I am very happy with it. Its fast and effective. The point is, after I installed internet explorer 9, my norton site safety stopped working. I have tried live update but nothing happens. What should I do now? Should I uninstall the beta?

antares · 20 Sep 2010

javelin009 said:

I recently installed internet explorer 9 beta on my windows 7 laptop. I am using norton internet security 2010 and I am very happy with it. Its fast and effective. The point is, after I installed internet explorer 9, my norton site safety stopped working. I have tried live update but nothing happens. What should I do now? Should I uninstall the beta?

IE9 is still beta as you said, most probably NIS does not support that feature yet for IE9.

jimbo45 · 21 Sep 2010

As far as the original question is concerned -- NONE OF THE ABOVE.

THERE IS NO VALUE IN AFTER THE FACT ANALYSIS. If you have got a virus or even THINK you have then at a minimum an image restore from a known clean image is your best bet.

You only know the tiime period between your last clean scan and the current one so Anything could have happened in that time frame.

Otherwise a full clean install again.

I would NEVER EVER trust a system that had a virus on it and was "cleansed" using AV software.

Only AV software that has REAL TIME protection in it is of any value these days.

MSE tends to be OK, small, and is FREE.

Cheers
jimbo

si8mon · 21 Sep 2010

cookie66 said:

I heard bad reviews about it [MSE]......

When? Because I never heard anything bad about it. But I think Avast (which I use) is better than Norton but MSE is better than Avast.

jimbo45 · 21 Sep 2010

si8mon said:

cookie66 said:

I heard bad reviews about it [MSE]......

When? Because I never heard anything bad about it. But I think Avast (which I use) is better but MSE is better than Avast.

Hi all
especially to cookie66 -- if you've heard bad reviews please quote "Chapter and Verse" or at least provide a link to the source of your statement.

Anybody can say "X is bad" but please add links / references etc so the provenance of your argument can be validated -- otherwise one can only assume another sub teen pre high school person "know all" is posting stuff about which he / she knows KNOTHING about.

Not trying to be insulting or start flaming but unsubstantiated comments tend to devalue the whole value of information potentially available on the Internet.

Cheers
jimbo

Golden · 21 Sep 2010

Hi,

I'm not sure if this has been posted yet, but I find this site very useful when deciding on an anti-virus product:

AV-Comparatives - Independent Tests of Anti-Virus Software - Welcome to AV-Comparatives.org

Regards,
Golden

Bill2 · 21 Sep 2010

jimbo45 said:

As far as the original question is concerned -- NONE OF THE ABOVE.

THERE IS NO VALUE IN AFTER THE FACT ANALYSIS. If you have got a virus or even THINK you have then at a minimum an image restore from a known clean image is your best bet.

You only know the tiime period between your last clean scan and the current one so Anything could have happened in that time frame.

Otherwise a full clean install again.

I would NEVER EVER trust a system that had a virus on it and was "cleansed" using AV software.

Only AV software that has REAL TIME protection in it is of any value these days.

MSE tends to be OK, small, and is FREE.

Cheers
jimbo

Wow! In other words, if MSE found a virus and cleaned it (or at least claimed to), you wouldnt trust and reinstall/ reimage anyways? Doesnt seem any point to using an AV.