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Norton antivirus Vs Kapersky?

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orion23

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Late last year I installed norton antivirus 2004 and it was running fully updated until yerterday when I uninstalled it.
I chose to try Kapersky since I submitted a file online for a free virus scan and it detected a trojan risk, which norton, zonealamr, or mcafee wouldn't detect.
I replaced it with the trial version of kapersky antivirus and immediately started a full system scan.
So far it has found 12 trojans or virii all together. It is not finished yet, but I know where my money will go next.

Anybody else?
 
Bigger picture: if your system has twelve Trojans installed, you might want to examine the behavior of the people who use your computer. Also, give Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer a whirl: link to download.

Kaspersky does seem to be some good stuff. Out of curiosity, on your Norton installation, did you have it running maximum heuristics, compressed-file scanning and did you enable detection for the extra stuff like spyware/adware?
 
IMHO Norton AV has never been good at detecting and removing trojans. Kaspersky Personal v5 is without a doubt one of the best AV's on the market. You can always run a Trend and Panda online scan (free) as well.
 
I just bought two year subscription for Kaspersky $60 and I think it is the greatest . I had used Norton ever since win95 and it just got to be to much of a hog. Kaspersky has 50MB less of a memory footprint than NAV2k5, however scan times are about equal.
 
Nice to know that I am not the only one that uses KAV 5 aroud here. Kasperky Antihacker is also worth looking into also in you want to run a software firewall on your desktop.
 
I'd use my KAV5 license but it freaked out when I tried to use it on WinXP Pro x64 Edition (I got the 180-day trialware). I had to blow away the Windows installation and start over. After it repeated it, I gave up.

Their customer service could use a bit of work. 😛 I put in a customer-service request with them for my mom's KAV5 installation after their program update caused an issue. They were prompt about politely accusing me of having an unlicensed copy (wrong), but once I sent the requested purchase details, did I ever hear anything further (as in, tech support)? Nope. Product is great, support might be a little spotty.
 
Very dissapointed with Norton...
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seriously... who isnt

in 2002 i switched to trend micro, and from trend to avg when the became to corperate for me to handle.

Long story short - im planning on going back
 
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