Buy Defender 5-1 system. Much cheaper than Norton, which is a virus in itself.
A few months back, I was looking into getting Norton or McAfee.
I did some research but was still undecided. I asked Freepers for advice.
After reading their replies, I decided to get neither and instead downloaded AVG for free.
When it comes to PC-related issues, Freepers are #1.
I need to clean this damned thing, there's so much JUNK on it.
> Antivirus products made by Symantec and McAfee and
> used by millions have flaws that could potentially
> be exploited by hackers ...
If I were a cracker, a top priority would be looking
for exploits in AV/AS/firewall products.
I run NAV, and had an incident this year in which it
appeared that NAV itself got infected, refused to run
and refused to download new virus sigs. After recovery,
NAV ID'd it as
Bloodhound.W32.4
If you check the Symantec database, note that the
Bloodhound.W32 defs still only go to up to ".3", which is:
"The virus name Bloodhound.W32.3 is used exclusively by
Symantec antivirus products when a potentially unknown
virus is found using Symantec Bloodhound technology.
Bloodhound technology consists of heuristic algorithms
that are used to detect unknown viruses. The actual file
that is detected under Bloodhound.W32.3 is likely to be
infected with a new Win32 file-infecting virus."
Interesting.
A re-install of NAV cleared up the problem, anyway.
I used to be a big Norton fan. But there software has become so bloated and unstable that I gave up on them. What a difference in computer speed when you unload there crap. AVG works good.
PC-cillin + Spybot S&D together make me happy. Aong with Thunderbird, Firefox and Sunbird.
As a retired senior software developer with over 40 years under my belt I can guarantee that no halfway complex piece of software is without flaws. Any software which allows automatic updates and downloads or which allows modification of the system on which it runs could be used to hack into a system which uses it.