Norton antivirus re-new or try AVG ?

[Kent Parker]

The Norton anti-virus is telling me that my year is up tomorrow and time to renew.

I had hear that AVG is as good and works without slowing your computor down.

Anyone had experience with AVG??

Cheers,

Kent

[tod evans]

kent, if by avg you mean kaspersky? i`ve been using it for several years with no problems..02 tod

[George Sanders]

I've been using AVG free home edition for about 2 years now and I'm quite happy with it. You can set it to scan on boot up or at a specific time of day. It will slow down you computer somewhat but it really depends on what type processor you have and how much memory is installed.
I had Norton in the past and I don't like buying something every year so I tried AVG and have used it ever since.
You can find out more information at PC World.com They have online reviews and tutorials.

[Kent Parker]

kent, if by avg you mean kaspersky? i`ve been using it for several years with no problems..02 tod

Tod, I only know it as AVG. see here http://www.grisoft.com/doc/1

Cheers,

KP

[tod evans]

Tod, I only know it as AVG. see here http://www.grisoft.com/doc/1

Cheers,

KP

kent, here`s what i`ve been using with good luck;
http://www.kaspersky.com/
.02 tod

[Ron Jones near Indy]

I am very pleased with AVG. My computer guru recommended it over Norton.

[Larry Browning]

Another free option is www.avast.com I have been using it for over a year after I got fed up with NAV performance issues and extreme cost especially when it is installed on all 3 computer I have!
The only thing I wish I could do with avast is to schedule it to run a full scan on a periodic basis.(pro version does this) It scans email and downloads as the come in, and new definition files are downloaded automatically almost every day.
When I was researching my options last year to replace NAV, AVG and Avast were about equal in functionally, so I flipped coin and avast won. The one thing that I learned in doing my research was that even though NAV and McAfee are the most popular, they are probably the WORST choices for anti-virus software due to performance issues and useless features designed to get you to upgrade. Do yourself a favor and do a little Google research on the subject. It sure opened my eyes.

[Joe Pelonio]

I had Norton and dumped it for AVG, I also run Spyware Doctor, Noadware, and Spybot. No problems with them running as far as slowdowns, and haven't gotten any infections for close to a year
now.

[Steve Clardy]

Becker put me on to AVG. I like it, does a fine job.

[Vaughn McMillan]

AVG works well for for me...no Norton products on my machine, and I doubt there ever will be.

- Vaughn

[Rob Russell]

...no Norton products on my machine, and I doubt there ever will be.

- Vaughn

I'm curious - why?

[Frank Pellow]

We (my wife and I) have used the free version of AVG for a little over two years and it has worked very well for us.

[Anthony Anderson]

Kent, I have been using AVG Free edition for a little over a year now, and it works great. The techs at my internet provider recommended it and said it is one that definitely works. My computer was running slow, installed this, ran a system check and found 2 or 3 viruses, it fixed them (however that happens) and the computer works great again. HTH, Bill

[Joe Pelonio]

I'm curious - why?

In the past on various machines I noticed that Norton would miss things, but when I added other products to the PC the Norton product was not compatible with the others, so they couldn't run at the same time. It's almost like Norton didn't want people to use something else.

[Larry Browning]

I'm curious - why?

Rob,
I really HATE Norton(Symantic) because of their lack of decent customer support and their ever rising cost. They will charge you to talk to tech support about issues with their software. If anything they should pay me (well not me anymore!) for helping debug their products. They are worse than Microsoft (well maybe) about program bloat and adding useless "features" that bring no real value to their product. When Norton anti-virus first came out many years ago the virus definition files were free "forever", then after Symantic bought them they started charging a "nominal" fee (something like $3.95 per year). Each year it has gone up, $5.95, then $9.95 to whatever it is now ($39.95 the last time I checked) Multiply that times the number of computers you have around the house, and that's a pretty sizable chunck of change. That is very hard to justify especially when there is BETTER software out there to protect your PC that is FREE. I cannot for the life of me figure out why anyone would want something like that. Advertising I guess, or maybe they just don't know any better.

Sorry for the rant!!!! But I just can't stand Norton Anti-virus.