Thread: Norton is back!

Oh Man, that takes me back. I remember when the only real virus out there was the "marijuana" virus, and you detected that by looking at the boot sector of your disk with norton utilities' hex editor, and you got rid of it by copying the boot sector from a known good disk over the top. Those were the days.

That's nice to know. I bought Norton 2007 and it only lasted a month or so before going to Trend or others I've tried since. I use comodo at home and it's a PITA (worst than Vista for nagging you). Might have to try Norton again then.

I find getting the OEM licenses works well - a 3 user pack usually costs $35 with the purchase of an internal component for a PC. A Once a year RAM or HDD upgrade is usually on the cards anyway, so it work for me Heaps cheaper than renewing!

Cheers,
Dave

Good tip; thanks Dave.

Peter, wow, that was heavy duty hacking.

Ah well, there's a cloud.

On one system Firefox wouldn't run with NIS 10.

Great online support though. There's an online chat support system, and I spent 3 hours today, gravitating from a tech, to a supervisor to a member of the elite team. (Golleee). You install LogMeIn and they take over your machine and try to fix the problem. Mr Elite was also on the phone to me at the same time from some overseas centre.

He's promised to research further and ring me back.

Firefox!! I gave up on Firefox because it caused too many hassles. I now run Google Chrome and find it wonderful. I use Trend for security and so far no problems. Seems very compatible with Goodgle Chrome.

How many have used PC Cillin?

Artme, I use Chrome myself and like the speed. The downside is no gestures plug-in and add-ons like Robo-form (for auto p/w and user name entry) don't work/aren't available. The 'customer' in this case prefers FF (we have a 3 PC network in the house and I get to play sysadmin).

As per the first post, I've given up on PC Cillin (Trend Micro) for the reason stated there. And in independent tests it hasn't been as effective as other programs. See PCMag website.

But compatibility is always an issue. Security s/w gets its tentacles deep into the bowels of a machine, and some packages work fine and some will never work with a given setup.

So does this imply the program designers are remiss?

Why are the program designers and security people not collaborating?

Don't forget the OS and hardware level coding!

It's the sheer complexity of what's in the box.

My son is in IT support; he might say have to set up 20 new desktop machines, all with the same specs from the same supplier that came in the same order. He sets one up to work with OS and application s/w, network settings etc. He then mirrors that setup on all the others.

But more often than not one or more won't work. Might be just a slightly later version of the graphics chip eg. which has different hardware level coding.

Blink Personal by digital eye security is my pick for an anti-virus, Brilliant.