Chuck:
I am biased, as I have been a contract employee of Symantec in the past,
and was even offered direct employment with them as an SE, though I
could not take any of the positions offered.
I run NAV on two WinXP machines here at home, and have not had a single
problem. I would discount the issues you cited. How do we know these
people had properly configured, healthy machines before they installed?
McAfee has improved, but their business practices in the past were awful
and soured me on the company forever, probably unfairly.
Symantec used to offer a money-back guarantee (30 days I believe) for
any reason. Not an adequate compensation if you have real problems, but
at least something. I don't know if this policy is still in effect. I
still have friends at Symantec, if you really want I could try to find
out about the guarantee.
Just my 2 cents/kopeks/pence/etc.
Earl
Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>Help! My Norton Antivirus virus definitions service is about to expire
>in a couple of weeks. I tried to do the annual $20 renewal thing but
>couldn't. Upon visitng Symantec's website to find out why I discovered
>that my Norton Systemworks/Antivirus 2001 product is no longer
>supported. My only choice was to upgrade to the 2005 product at a price
>of $40 or more depending on which specific product I chose to buy.
>
>I decided to pay a visit to Amazon.com to see if Amazon was selling for
>less. They weren't but while I was there I decided to read the product
>reviews for Systemworks and Antivirus (standalone). I came away
>horrified. Like many of the reviewers I have been happily using Norton
>Antivirus since DOS days. But many, many of the reviewers tell scary
>tales about how the 2005 product has caused severe damage to their
>system installations and even forced many to reformat and reinstall all
>their apps. So I have no desire to go there even if these folks are in
>the minority. And, since I run Win 2000 instead of XP I suspect that
>compatibility is likely to be even less well tested.
>
>McAfee Antivirus might be the logical next step except that I have a bad
>taste in my mouth about the McAfee product from several years ago. Not
>the pure ugliness that Norton seems to be now but something that, as a
>fellow software developer (at the time) made me less than happy.
>
>Anyhow, maybe it's time to move on to some open source application.
>
>Anyone have strong feelings about what to use or not use, open source or
>otherwise?
>
>Thanks,
>Chuck Norcutt
>
>
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