changing antivirus package

[kimsou]

My Norton which I bought on line a year ago expires in a few days and I've been advised to buy a CD kit but would like some good advice: G Data AVK or Kaspersky or ? and will this cover everything I need in the way of antivirus/spam/internet security? Thanks to anyone who can help really soon.

 

[halo71]

If I were you I would search around this site and see what everyone else is using or recommends. Personally I would go with AVG and drop ANYTHING that Norton offers.

BTW.....Welcome to TS!

 

[Ididmyc600]

Ok so why does everyone slam Norton, true the Internet suite is bloatware, but if you just go for the standard AV package it works no problems, I used it with no problems for many years.

I use AVG now as its free unlike Norton which costs money and i'm tightar**d, but thats the only reason I hasten to add.

Regards

 

[howard_hopkinso]

The reasons I don`t like Norton are these.
It`s a resource hog.
It can be a pain in the rear to uninstall.
It isn`t that good at killing viruses.
It`s expensive.
It`s responsible for causing system crashes. I used to see this quite a lot when I used to do the minidump threads.
It`s crap.

Regards Howard

 

[Ididmyc600]

I take it then you dont like Norton products H ?

 

[howard_hopkinso]

Got it in one mate, though, it`s their Antivirus/security software that I`m talking about and not any of their other products lol.

Regards Howard