Norton Internet Security 2011 vs Avast! Free 5.0

[Wishmaster]

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]

Yeah I suppose your Right

 

[antares]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

 

[antares]

New NIS2011 review:
The security suites to beat | The Download Blog - Download.com

 

[dhm794]

I've never tried out MSE, but I have tried Norton and Avast. Let's just put it this way: Norton found (and fixed) 80 infections on my computer. Avast found one. Malware Bytes Anti-Malware found 48.

 

[DBone]

You need to change your browsing habits, regardless of which resident antivirus product you chose.

 

[Aviator]

I use NIS2011. No problems at all.

 

[pparks1]

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.

The point to using the AV is to be told that something did happen. Otherwise, you might not know and keep right on imaging not realizing that your box was compromised.

On my own personal boxes, If I knowingly got hit with something, I would pretty much wipe the box and start from scratch myself. Especially since I have images and "from scratch" really isn't that long ago.

For people's machines I work on, I usually clean 'em best I can and let them carry on. Most of them are absolutely terrified of reinstalling and starting from scratch as they often don't backup, they don't know where anything is, and they don't have images.

 

[DBone]

I didn't like how a Dell update went last week, so I went ahead and did a re-image. I make 2 images per month, and since I don't install a lot of programs or work from my personal machine, I don't lose much in 2 - 4 weeks. I certainly didn't need to do this, but I now know my machine is back to it's known by me, correct state.................I would do the same if I got infected without a doubt.

 

[7mm]

Firstly, that's a wrong comparison asked for. A stand alone Antivirus vs an entire Security suite!! Should've been AV / AV OR IS / IS, right?

Anyway, I would choose Norton for paid use and Avast for Free use. You can also go for MSE (Not my first choice, though.) For complete Internet Security, I'd suggest Bitdefender IS 2011/12, Norton IS 2011 and F-Secure IS 2011. For Free use, try Comodo Internet Security OR Outpost Security Suite 7.1 Free (AV powered by Virus Buster).

 

[codyw]

I would go with Kaspersky. I use it and don't have many problems with it.

Hello, which is better? Norton Internet Security 2011 or Avast! free 5.0? Which one will slow down my computer more, or has higher detection rates?