OMG, now Microsoft wants to sell us an AV program to combat their security prone OS :-)

[Spencer278]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Originally posted by: paruhd0x
Norton Anti-Virus is such a resource hog... I really hope MS comes up with something that doesn't slow your system so much.

LMAO! Yeah, like Microsoft is really capable of doing that!

"A computer without Microsoft is like a dog without a brick tied to its head." - unknown

/troll

I was waiting for someone to pick up on that. MS makes everything a resource hog. I wonder how many patches your going to need to download for the anti-virus program having secruities holes?

 

[Turkish]

DannyBoy obviously is biased in his opinion, who knows why...

Anyways, I'll keep buying & support Microsoft products. Symantec is piece of crap... Everyone I know complains about how it hogs resources... Windows 2000 + Windows XP Pro have been great for me... never had any viruses & problems (without AV software).

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: Xiety
DannyBoy obviously is biased in his opinion, who knows why...

Anyways, I'll keep buying & support Microsoft products. Symantec is piece of crap... Everyone I know complains about how it hogs resources... Windows 2000 + Windows XP Pro have been great for me... never had any viruses & problems (without AV software).

How do you know you don't have any viruses without any AV software, just curious of course...

 

[ElFenix]

i wonder how long until it is tied to the OS like IE is

 

[gunblade]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i wonder how long until it is tied to the OS like IE is

When they felt that they can't win with better product and the market share in the segment helps in their grand business scheme.

 

[mAdD INDIAN]

Originally posted by: paruhd0x

Originally posted by: mAdD INDIAN

Originally posted by: DannyBoy

Originally posted by: paruhd0x
Norton Anti-Virus is such a resource hog... I really hope MS comes up with something that doesn't slow your system so much.

...and let me guess, you're running NAV2004 on a P2 400 with 128meg ram?

close....P2-450Mhz with 256mb ram.

In case you didn't notice my sig...


3000MHz Rig

And yes NAV2004 is a resource hog. Have you ever tried to do anything HD intensive with it running? Performance is rediculous.

i meant in my case its slow since I have a P2-450 with 256mb ram...his guess wasn't far off from my rig's spec.

 

[GoodToGo]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
well all these years youve been giving norton money for their virus software that combats the viruses they create which do you consider a wrost rapage?

You are almost fanatical when it comes to defending MS!

 

[skace]

I am sure Norton / Mcafee are concerned, considering both their products suck horribly.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: gunblade

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i wonder how long until it is tied to the OS like IE is

When they felt that they can't win with better product and the market share in the segment helps in their grand business scheme.

if other peoples products were better then their customers would still buy them no matter what MS bundled in their OS.

 

[Megatomic]

Originally posted by: GoodToGo

Originally posted by: Ameesh
well all these years youve been giving norton money for their virus software that combats the viruses they create which do you consider a wrost rapage?

You are almost fanatical when it comes to defending MS!

Is that bad? I see TONS more fanatical oposition to MS than I see supporting MS.

 

[gunblade]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: gunblade

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i wonder how long until it is tied to the OS like IE is

When they felt that they can't win with better product and the market share in the segment helps in their grand business scheme.

if other peoples products were better then their customers would still buy them no matter what MS bundled in their OS.

It depends on how much better. I believe MS would not put out a joke product which totally defeat the trust-computing crap that they are running now. So, most consumer would be just lived with the bundled one to save money.

Besides, most people are not technically-inclined and lazy. If there is something to use already, why bothers?

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: gunblade

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: gunblade

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i wonder how long until it is tied to the OS like IE is

When they felt that they can't win with better product and the market share in the segment helps in their grand business scheme.

if other peoples products were better then their customers would still buy them no matter what MS bundled in their OS.

It depends on how much better. I believe MS would not put out a joke product which totally defeat the trust-computing crap that they are running now. So, most consumer would be just lived with the bundled one to save money.

Besides, most people are not technically-inclined and lazy. If there is something to use already, why bothers?

People will tend to stick with what is "good enough", if upgrading required actual effort.

 

[DrPizza]

Soo.... rather than updates to windows, we'll get emails saying how their virus protection will protect us from some certain vulnerability??

 

[Rudee]

I highly doubt the majority of people here actually have a legit vesion of Windows anyway.

 

[Zee]

Originally posted by: Stark
if NAV actually stopped any of the viruses and spyware that hits computers these days, I might feel bad for them.

like I said in the thread yesterday, I'll buy the MS version and give it a shot. It can't be worse than McAfee.

agreed. If it's a good product the masses will move the the realm of MS

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: Rudee
I highly doubt the majority of people here actually have a legit vesion of Windows anyway.

Because over 50% + 1 of 79,734 are all pirates?

To the OP - Microsoft has to charge for it or else get sued by god knows who for supposedly creating an unfair playing field and muscling someone out. They got sued by RealCrap b/c WMP finally became a decent media player and came with Windows. Nutscraper went down the hole b/c IE actually got decent enough and was packaged in with Windows.

 

[sharkeeper]

i wonder how long until it is tied to the OS like IE is

It's coming in hardware sooner than you think.

Before you know it *all* computers will not be able to pass any kind of digital traffic unless authorised. Same goes for new software. They will kill piracy, viruses, and spam all at the same time. It's worse than I thought with all this palladium talk a few years ago.

Sucks for all the enthusiasts out there. Like everything else, a few misanthropic punks have to spoil it for everyone! :|

Cheers!

 

[BurnItDwn]

Bah, whe needs antivirus ...

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: DannyBoy

Originally posted by: Xiety
DannyBoy obviously is biased in his opinion, who knows why...

Anyways, I'll keep buying & support Microsoft products. Symantec is piece of crap... Everyone I know complains about how it hogs resources... Windows 2000 + Windows XP Pro have been great for me... never had any viruses & problems (without AV software).

How do you know you don't have any viruses without any AV software, just curious of course...

because my computer doesn't crash, no unknown network activity, everything works perfect, etc... etc...

 

[MalikChen]

Originally posted by: shuttleteam

It's coming in hardware sooner than you think.

Before you know it *all* computers will not be able to pass any kind of digital traffic unless authorised. Same goes for new software. They will kill piracy, viruses, and spam all at the same time. It's worse than I thought with all this palladium talk a few years ago.

And when that happens, a group of hackers will figure a way to put [insert open-source operating system here] on it. Take the xbox for example MS designed it so that ONLY xbox games, but people have broken it and put linux on it. Heck, people have done that to the dreamcast, which wasn't even built to run games in the first place.

Originally posted by: DannyBoy


How do you know you don't have any viruses without any AV software, just curious of course...

[insert random Linux fanboy sermon here]

 

[Aquaman]

Lets just hope they don't start buying up all the good AV companies

Cheers,
Aquaman