Antivirus

[Silyy097]

There's practically NOTHING standing between you and online criminals. (Other than common sense, that is)

 

Hey guys, ive always been wondering why so much hate towards norton. Is it something they have done?

 

Ive always been a loyal customer of Norton for the past 5 years. On my 2009 laptop, mom's laptop, 2011 laptop, and my computer now, ive always supported norton.

 

However since 2012 (When I started getting interested into tech), ive seen much hate being thrown at Norton for some reason which I don't know. And I feel that its time to ask the community, as Norton being an ass in the last year (auto-deleting anything I download which seems "suspicious" to them, such as F@h and Cudaminer, and having me manually restore them)

 

1) Y So Serious? (Why the hate towards Norton?)

2) Any good replacements, and why?

[brokencross]

Been using Common Sense 2015. Works great and it's really light.

[Nineshadow]

It's old,it's a resource hog, has too much bloatware and it's not even all that good at detecting malware.

 

Bitdefender ftw.

 

Norton was good, but it didn't keep up to the competition. Nowadays it's "meh".

[brokencross]

Jokes aside, Zemana is probably the best in the market. It uses various malware databases and it's technically free. Just sign up to the beta and you get a lifetime license.

[Oskar94a]

I'm not sure if it's true but my old programming teacher told us that Norton made viruses only Norton could remove by buying it, if you had the free version, they would drop in a nasty virus and a pop up would be something like: "Upgrade your Norton and get rid of this virus"

[beebskadoo]

Norton is fat and stupid, why buy a fast computer just to slow it way down in order to protect yourself? Norton actually works as a malware deterrent by making your computer so slow that you'll never get to use it so in turn you can't download viruses. Lol

Webroot ftw

[Guest Kloaked]

Been using Common Sense 2015. Works great and it's really light.

Some people haven't updated since 2003.

[Blebekblebek]

Norton was good

AVG was good

Avast was good

NOD32 was good

Panda was good

 

until they add horrendous all-in-one bloatware into it.

Pop up ads? Check

Blocking certain website? Check

Broken firewall? Check (I don't even understand why they have to add this into anti virus, people will use better firewall if they want to)

Malware? Check