I'm fed up with symantec, AV advice needed

I'm fed up with symantec, AV advice needed

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I'm fed up with symantec, AV advice needed MS 02-24-2006
Posted by MS on February 24, 2006, 7:46 am
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Hi,

I'm fed up with symantec; almost every time I need a subscription renewal
for Norton AV / Internet Security I'm told my product is no longer
'supported' and I need an upgrade, when all I want is new AV definitions
and security updates. For 2 days I've been trying to get a response from
their website but as soon as you enter the product you want renewals for
the page fails to load. Faced with this I rang them, spent 15 mins on
hold, then spoke to a very unhelpful woman who's English was not great,
answered 'exactly' to 2 of my questions (in so doing failing to answer
them) and who seemed irritated by my questions. So I will look elsewhere...

What decent AV software should I look at for a PC running Win2000 Pro? Is
there any good free software with regular AV updates out there? Or
reasonably priced software that will charge me a modest fee for the
following year's AV updates without hitting me every time for the whole
cost of the software?

Many thanks,

MS

Posted by Todd H. on February 24, 2006, 10:07 am
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> What decent AV software should I look at for a PC running Win2000
> Pro?

Give NOD32 a try.

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Posted by Michael Jaeger on February 24, 2006, 3:49 pm
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Todd H. wrote:

>
>> What decent AV software should I look at for a PC running Win2000
>> Pro?
>
> Give NOD32 a try.

I'd like to second this suggestion.
I am a long-time satisfied NOD32 user.

Mike

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Posted by Mich on February 24, 2006, 12:13 pm
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> Hi,
>
> I'm fed up with symantec; almost every time I need a subscription renewal
> for Norton AV / Internet Security I'm told my product is no longer
> 'supported' and I need an upgrade, when all I want is new AV definitions
> and security updates. For 2 days I've been trying to get a response from
> their website but as soon as you enter the product you want renewals for
> the page fails to load. Faced with this I rang them, spent 15 mins on
> hold, then spoke to a very unhelpful woman who's English was not great,
> answered 'exactly' to 2 of my questions (in so doing failing to answer
> them) and who seemed irritated by my questions. So I will look
elsewhere...
>
> What decent AV software should I look at for a PC running Win2000 Pro? Is
> there any good free software with regular AV updates out there? Or
> reasonably priced software that will charge me a modest fee for the
> following year's AV updates without hitting me every time for the whole
> cost of the software?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> MS

AVG free works fine for me
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5
Mich...



Posted by on February 24, 2006, 12:41 pm
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I have been very happy with F-Secure, which is one of the few that also
scans for rootkits.


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