The virus, Conficker, the one all the hype is about...

FTEvolution · Post by **FTEvolution** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:45 am

I have used Norton 360 for years. Is this another of those "Nee-sans sux cos my cuzzin sed so!" opinions?

You guys actually used it? Nod is good, but I prefer Norton. Old Norton was sh*t (they screwed their reputation royally) but I would have nothing else now. Their live support is fantastic too.

Honestly, use whatever you want. It is just a recommendation.

BTW, Norton 360 is the only system that picked up a controlled infection of vUndo on 5 systems (each with a different product). Nod and Kaspersky were disabled, AVG IS 8 (paid version) just kept running without a clue and Bullguard crashed the system with a bluescreen. All were Compaq Presarios with same spec and fresh (fully updated) versions of Win XP Pro. Yes, my old colleagues and I had far too much time on our hands haha...

mr-charisma · Post by **mr-charisma** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:28 pm

I can't stand Norton's & hate that they use it where I'm working now.

+2 on the Norton hatred

FTEvolution · Post by **FTEvolution** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:27 pm

mr-charisma wrote:I can't stand Norton's & hate that they use it where I'm working now.

+2 on the Norton hatred

You realise you just pinged 3k posts??? haha

Fair call too fella, if you don't like it, don't use it. Was just a suggestion. Back on topic, get those PC's secure ladies!

mr-charisma · Post by **mr-charisma** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 3:24 pm

W00t! 3k!

da_msta_chizz · Post by **da_msta_chizz** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:14 pm

Yes, i've used Norton.

We use 360 at work.
I uninstalled Norton on my system, and installed NOD32 (3.0).
It picked up 9, yes, 9 infections.
Then cleaned them all except 1, which it had to delete.

You used nod and didn't like it?
what version did you try?

Because i've got to say - i have never used a better antivirus.
Apart from cooked hard drives (laptops = stupid & or retarded idea), i've never had to reinstall vista.
The only virus i have had?
one that ran a cmd with the shutdown command at startup.
(go to cmd and type in ' shutdown -s '

)
because i was stupid enough to run a dodgy .exe my friend decided to give me

It took me less than 3 minutes to completely fix.

That's not the only thing though.
Have you ever run NOD32 and Norton, while doing anything else?
Norton is an absolute SLUG on resources compared to NOD32.
When NOD32 is running in the background on my laptop, i cannot notice it. It doesn't use anything. It uses like 1% of core 2 on my machine.
Norton was a noticable difference, not only slowing down task but making programs tak an extra second to start up.
It doesn't sound like much, but when you type as fast as i do and have the eyes of a (dying) hawk, and reflexes from a jaguar, it is annoying

On the topic though;
I seriously think this virus was just some LOL's by microsoft. The morning of, when no one turned on their PC's, everyone in the MS office was rolling on the floor.

Just in case it was real?
I was running Ubuntu. And i'm STILL running ubuntu. Off a USB.
Because both HDDs in my laptop decided to die at the exact same time. No antivirus could ever help that.

Sigh.

I really need a desktop.

Eltnot · Post by **Eltnot** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:00 pm

Not a big fan of NOD32. Not an overly big fan of Notron 360 either. Symantec Endpoint Protection Multi-tier is lovely. Easy to install, update and will tell you when users have infections if and when they manage to get through or if they're updates are lagging behind.

Spam filter on it seems pretty good too.

FTEvolution · Post by **FTEvolution** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:55 am

Well... I am running Norton 360 v3 atm on both my Laptop (only a 1.4 GHz Celeron with 1.5 GB RAM) and my desktop (dual core, 3 GB RAM, 8800 GTS, Vista Ultimate) and I am in the same boat. Never had to reinstall Vista for anything virus related (brought a new HDD about 3 years ago and decided to rearrange everything).

As a total package, I find Norton 360 to be superior. Comprehensive backup, virus/malware/spyware etc protection. The firewall is by far the most powerful software item I have ever used, and simple too. I also like it how it doesn't bother to tell you when you have an infection, it just fixes it (of course it logs everything).

If NOD picked up virus' when you removed Norton, then I would say that you had virus' before installing Norton, or had something dormant.

Horses for courses me thinks, I will continually stand by Norton. Then again, I have their NZ support manager's direct dial, I have done a lot of work with their products

Post by **I8A4RE** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 10:59 am

No wonder you guys need to use pick up lines bahahahahaha

FTEvolution · Post by **FTEvolution** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:44 pm

I8A4RE wrote:No wonder you guys need to use pick up lines bahahahahaha

Back in your kennel!