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Posted by Dave Cohen on January 27, 2007, 8:24 pm
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> Hi
>
> I have been been with norton antivirus since about 2002. I recently
> experienced a hard drive crash, bought and installed a new hard drive.
> I was using NAV 2005 and reinstalled that and downloaded all the
> updates.
> I had 9 months left on my old NAV subscription which I needed
> transfered to my new drive so I emailed Norton and they told me in
> order to transfer my 9 months I needed to buy norton 2007.
> I got a little annoyed as NAV 2005 was protecting me fine with the
> paid updates.
> So I looked at free AV software and I like what I read about avast.
> What do you think?
> Shall I drop NAV and save myself $20 (For NAV 2007 EOM) and give Avast
> a try?
> I know some of you will say "Try it and see for yourself if you like
> it", I know that and will do that but would like to hear first from
> experienced NAV and Avast users.
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Patrick
> vaindiouxatyahoo.com
>
Funny you should ask. I got it with my emachine, renewed for 1 year then
switched to Avast. Good move, I now use Avira and am evaluating Comodo
backup, firewall and AV on a spare partition.
Now just today, I was working on my son's machine - a rather impressive
sony which he just purchased used. After he successfully wiped out his
system and had to send for and pay for a restoration cd from sony, we
did some work on it. On every re-boot and sometimes more often there was
a nag from Norton. I've no doubt Norton protects, they're a huge outfit
and widely used in the corporate world, but for us lesser folks who
exercise all the usual and oft repeated safe practices, something like
Avira, Avast or AVG in that order are free and do an adequate job. I've
never been infected and only once seen an alert. Comodo looks promising,
but I haven't seen any independent reports.
Dave Cohen
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