Originally posted by: Acanthus
They didnt happen to mention that NIS is harder to remove than most viruses?
Again - we are talking about Norton 2009, not 2008, not 2007, and most DEFINITELY not 2006 or earlier. NIS 09 installs in ~ 60 seconds, and uninstalls in about the same amount of time. Seriously. It is WAY better than the crap Symantec used to put out.
The problem Symantec runs into (as is obvious here) is that everyone who's used Norton in the past has already been burned on the bloated, slow, useless POS that Norton used to be. The 2009 stuff has been completely recoded and, unless you've actually tried it (Norton 2009) yourself, your above statement is just plain incorrect.
Also, if Norton is difficult to remove for you, you obviously haven't heard of Symantec's own Norton Removal Tool:
http://service1.symantec.com/S...docid/2005033108162039
(Don't get too hyped up about it though - any company worth their salt that makes security software has a removal tool for their product as well, including McAfee.)
Originally posted by: kmmatney
The only real negative they say about McAfee is the slow scanning. I haven't actually moticed that in my usage (but I'm using a slightly different version). I do agree with their assessment that the software "remarkably, we didn?t see much of a drop in gaming or day-to-day computing performance." That's what I've liked most about it - it does not bog down my system in any way, unlike Symantec Enterprise version 10 did.
My experience with McAfee in the past (and up to their current versions, when I encounter them) is that it provides little to no protection. I work 40-50 hours a week on peoples' home computers, many of which are infected, and I've noticed that usually if a computer is infected it falls under one of the following three categories:
1) No protection
2) Out-of-date/expired protection (ie, expired Norton 2005, Trend Micro 2007 with updated definitions, an out of date version of SpySweeper, etc)
3) McAfee is installed.
And I've probably serviced over 150 infected machines within the last year alone. I have yet to see the current version of McAfee do any good, though most people I encounter who use McAfee (typically the people who get it free from their ISP) are using older versions.
My advice: Try both out for free; you can buy McAfee through the deal if you want, or you can try it for free:
http://us.mcafee.com/root/downloads.asp?id=freeTrials and try Norton Antivirus or Internet Security for free here:
http://shop.symantecstore.com/...pbPage.Trialware_en_US . Use whichever one you like better, but be honest with yourself and let go of any past perceptions of the software, because this stuff is all pretty new. If you're REALLY worried, then try it in a VM or something.
I'm using NIS09 and am really happy with it - it's fast, it doesn't pop up at me at all (except for a small pop-up above the system tray to alert me of an attempted hijack or that an idle time scan finished) and it's not as bloated as some of the other stuff out there (including previous versions of Norton).
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