Argos bargain - Norton Internet Security 2012

Take it back......... Anything Norton or Macafee Ain't worth squits....

Karsperski, in my mind is one of the best of the lot, and it actually prevents stuff from entering your pc, whereas the others will only tell you after the bugs have settled in...

Even the free versions ov AVG or Avast are better than them two.... Don't they half make a racket when something is trying to worm its way in....

I have to agree with Dom Mike, I hate the Norton stuff, their professional products when installed on a server randomly halt my programs because something like 10 years ago Norton found a virus that was written using Delphi, so now every legit Delphi program in the world is at the mercy of being halted randomly by Norton, it doesn't even close it, it actually applies Job thresholds to it and pauses the application execution, bleedin support nightmare because you have no idea why the program is not longer working.

Try explaining to your customers that Norton and Symantec Anti Virus is ****, I still got shouted at by my boss when I PROVED what it was bleeding doing.

Microsoft Security Essentials, which is free, does a fine job of protecting your PC without adding the whole pile of stinking poo that most of the other products install in the mistaken belief that you it.

Agree all round with Dom and oss. I had Norton 360 for about 3 months a few years back, had all sorts of issues. Then I bought Kaspersky and uninstalled Norton (and what a pain it is to uninstall as well). Kaspersky picked up 3 active threats straight away! Trojans just sitting there... Never going back to Norton!

Incidentally, I bought my copy of Karsperki from PC World for £22, valid for 3 different pcs...

So, my main home pc and 2 laptops are fully covered for the price of one..........

My Toshiba Satellite has been going strong for nearly 4 years, and still well up to date.
I only changed due to an insurance claim on my older Medion laptop.
My new replacement Aesus, is stuff of dreams..........

Back in the old days I loved it Mike, Norton Utilities was a great collection of tools but in later years after Symantec got their paws on it, it became a technical support nightmare for me.

For me it is bloatware now, like most of the AV packages these days, it places too many hooks into the system, which means that too much of what Windows is supposed to do for you is passing through Norton DLL's before you ever get to deal with it at program level.

Just could not trust it anymore, shame really as stuff like Norton PC Anywhere was great in its day.

What gets me is why any of you are paying for Anti Virus these days seriously?

As an IT company we run MSE on all our machines, it's lightweight, it doesn't spend it's time annoying you with messages and questions that you don't understand, it just gets on with it in the background and is as good as any in terms of catching malware.

I guess I pay for Kaspersky because I feel if I pay for a product I am getting something for my money. Plus it is not so much the AV part that bothers me now but other nasties like malware and internet sites with scripts designed for nicking my card details.

Agree 100%. I do computer repairs, mostly software related, and the most common problem is almost always to do with a virus. Too many times, they've let Norton AV expire, so there is no anti-virus protection at all, and because they are too busy to notice or cannot afford Norton AV subs, the problem escalates from there. I used to recommend AVG as a good free AV, but now its MSE all the time, its light on resources, easy to use and its free. I use it myself.

Sean makes a valid point, the threat these days is not so much from virus, but malware, spyware, key loggers, so software like Malwarebytes are essential besides the usual AV for keeping your system from those pesky nasties.

MSE will catch key loggers too Rob and lots of other stuff including the advanced network stuff like Conficker, it also has rootkit detection and of course Windows firewall integration.

I think the thing I hated most about all the other AV programs was their personal integrated firewalls, some of them worked well but they were all a bleeding nuisance to work with.

I dunno about all this stuff you are going on about....

I tried several things in the past, and invariably Micrsoft has got holes, which can be exploited by the unscrupolous, that are best plugged with something else...

AVG and Avast are extremely good, Norton and Mcafee a total waste of time and money in my eyes, as they do not get rid of the problem as it comes about, but tell you after you have been infected... A bit late by then....

Karsperski for me, gives peace of mind and an associated value for money. I know that bad stuff won't get anywhere near my inbox but gets zapped halfway there...
I remember paying through the nose to have Macafee downloaded on our pc in Pinas, and withing two weeks the darn thing had to be re-booted completely...., Because the idiot that did it, decided to remove spydoctor and the Free Avast, not knowing that they can easily work together...