Thread: Norton 360

Originally Posted by smidsy

I've been using AVG antivirus but it's up for renewal and it's $120 a year where as I can get a Norton360 serial number from officeworks for $39.
I do a lot of lot of downloading, and a lot of that is from bit torrent sites - not the sort of site you'd send your mother to.
All I want is a basic antivirus, something that will stop the pop ups, trackers & malware that goes with the sites I use.
Will Norton360 do the job?

Firstly, what OS are you using?. you don't need an antivirus with with Windows OS 10 onward. I use torrent client too, never had a single issue.

Originally Posted by smidsy

All I want is a basic antivirus, something that will stop the pop ups, trackers & malware that goes with the sites I use.

To stop popups/trackers/malware use: Spybot Search & Destroy - free version. Its updated daily.

Originally Posted by EagerBeaver71

Firstly, what OS are you using?. you don't need an antivirus with with Windows OS 10 onward. I use torrent client too, never had a single issue.

I'm using Win10, I'm planning a partial rebuild in a month or so and may go Win11.
I've just always been wary of Windows and how much it keeps track of us

Originally Posted by smidsy

I'm using Win10, I'm planning a partial rebuild in a month or so and may go Win11.
I've just always been wary of Windows and how much it keeps track of us

Yeah I hear ya, few options, turn off all known tracking/advertising options or install a modified OS, theres plenty to choose from. I highly recommend installing Seek & destroy though. I have no other security on my W10 system.

100% antivirus programs are just bloat ware now days.

also depends what your torrenting if its just movies/tv shows well there is bugger all chance a movie file has a virus and if it did it probably wouldn't have a ton of seeder as they get reported/taken down quick.


as mentioned the inbuilt windows security is actually pretty good if for some reason you're downloading random .exe files from suspect russian websites.

Originally Posted by havabeer69

100% antivirus programs are just bloat ware now days.

also depends what your torrenting if its just movies/tv shows well there is bugger all chance a movie file has a virus and if it did it probably wouldn't have a ton of seeder as they get reported/taken down quick.


as mentioned the inbuilt windows security is actually pretty good if for some reason you're downloading random .exe files from suspect russian websites.

Agreed, I only DL from private trackers.

Originally Posted by havabeer69

100% antivirus programs are just bloat ware now days.

also depends what your torrenting if its just movies/tv shows well there is bugger all chance a movie file has a virus and if it did it probably wouldn't have a ton of seeder as they get reported/taken down quick.


as mentioned the inbuilt windows security is actually pretty good if for some reason you're downloading random .exe files from suspect russian websites.

I've been downloading twenty plus years, I've never had a problem.
The biggest problem I have with torrent sites is the pop-ups and re-directs.
I started downloading on 33.6k dialup - 50 hours to D/L a 350meg file.

Norton 360 is a good product but renewals are a rip off. So much so that I usually have to make a complaint to get the renewal at the right price, or uninstall and purchase anew. There's also a lot of un-ticking of options required to stop all of its annoying "features" popping up all over.

Yes its bloat-ware but on a decent PC there's no affect.

Originally Posted by Jaded62

Norton 360 is a good product but renewals are a rip off. So much so that I usually have to make a complaint to get the renewal at the right price, or uninstall and purchase anew. There's also a lot of un-ticking of options required to stop all of its annoying "features" popping up all over.

Yes its bloat-ware but on a decent PC there's no affect.

so... you have to uninstall a bunch of features and have a good computer just to run it....

sounds great

Originally Posted by havabeer69

so... you have to uninstall a bunch of features and have a good computer just to run it....

sounds great

Not uninstall, just untick. Small but annoying price to pay to protect our family of PCs.

Windows Defender, it is already included with current versions of Windows.

Just make sure it is enabled and you are downloading the definition updates for it.