"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:34:39 -0400, "mazorj" <mazorj@xxxxxx>
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>> "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxx> wrote in
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>> > In my view, and that of many of us here, Norton is the *worst*
>> > anti-virus program available. I wouldn't rely on what it tells
>> > you.
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>> How current is that view? There was a time when Norton was indeed
>> mediocre after resting on their laurels but they seem to have
>> gotten
>> their act together lately. >
> They are, in general, a lot worse than mediocre.
>
> However, bear in mind that the latest version, AntiVirus 2009, has
> gotten much better reports from several people, several of whom I
> trust. However I have no personal experience with it, and I am not
> willing to use it myself, nor even to yet recommend it to anyone
> else. I'm using NIS 2009. NIS 2008 came with the machine but I checked
reviews before renewing my subscription and updating it. Almost
everyone seems to agree that it's much improved over the old Norton
with its well-deserved poor reputation. It may not be everyone's #1
pick, but there's no reason to shun it as in the past. If it comes
bundled, it's certainly good enough as your starting point.
However, I'm a belt and suspenders type on security. No reason why
you cannot and should not have an arsenal of several security
sweepers. I had SpySweeper and ZoneAlarm running on my XP machine
back when Norton was sucking wind in the security apps market. (Just
don't run two firewalls at once.) And yes, theoretically I might
still have malware even though three separate, reputable sweepers
couldn't find anything, and theoretically there might be one obscure
program out there that could catch it; but with three sweepers in
action, I'm already verging into diminishing returns. If my 200 GB
"vanishing unused disk space" problem is due to malware rather than
some obscure process run amok, I'll never find it.
Anyway, thanks for the comments.