[GoJoAGoGo]

I agree you are better off without NAV. I have stopped using NAV for about 15 mos now. I used AVG 6 free for about a year. I had some problems with AVG 7 free and have since been using Computer Associates eTrust EZ Antivirus for the past 4 months. It's a 1 year free deal and it's been good so far. I'm not sure if I will continue with it after the 1 year ends, depends on how much they charge to renew.

I must confess I still use Nortons Ghost 2003 to make my HD backups. No problems with Nortons Ghost as far as making the backups. Thus far I haven't had to use the backups to restore my system, so I can't comment on that part.

Does anyone have some input on Nortons Ghost?

[rez410]

Just to put it out there. I never really hear people saying avast or AVG is better then the other. but i was using avast for a while along with spy bot, spyware blaster, adaware, and microsoft anti-spyware and i was completely clean for the last 2 months. then my defs. went out of date so i switched to AVG and it picked up like 5 or 6 things that avast had been missing. unless i got those trojans by downloading AVG. but i doubt that

[buddym2004]

I recently switched from Norton to Trend Micro PC-cillin and what a relief! Norton has ruined their product with pop-ups and a bad habit of doing things without asking the user. PC-cillin runs MUCH faster and has a better firewall user interface.

[SIR****TMG]

i got rid of norton 2 yeas ago ...

[Rockn]

AVG Pro and Spyware Blaster. Personal firewalls are overkill for home users if you have a router that is running NAT(port forwarding)

[smeegle]

I have Sygate as my personal firewall and I have the Norton System Works 2003. True confession time: My subscription to Norton will expire on 062705 and I intend to resubscribe. I've heard about AVG and AVAST but do either of these have the one button checkup? With Norton I can make Registry corrections, defrag my computer, make nescessary repairs to my hard disk that my Scan Disk cannot and so much more. True it takes up a lot of space, but for non-professionals like me I think its worth the money.

[Space Cowboy]

Does anyone have some input on Nortons Ghost 2003

Yeah .. don't install it !!

It just boots to DOS anyways.

Boot off the floppy or CD instead. You can do everthing you need to do with it without installin it on your system.

I use it weekly and all I have to do is boot off one floppy disk.

Also .. Verify/check the image after you create it so if there are any errors you can delete that image ~ run CHKDSK ~ and then try again.

Good Luck
Cowboy

[old100]

A past member, think it was Khazars, gave me a AV site: http://www.kaspersky.com . It took about 2 hours but found all kinds of problems. Has anybody else had any experience with this antivirus scanner?

[Rockn]

I used to have an older version of Kaspersky labs AVP and it was awesome.

[Ginosko]

lol, join the club got rid of Norton last year, got avg...never looked back. Avg is free and works great you might need a bit of know-how to get rid of somethings, but it's great for a free program, frequent updates too!

[Telstar]

Ok, here's my deal...

Had Norton AV2002 since I bought my comp back in Feb of '02.

Computer came with first year free Norton2002 so I renewed each
year....until now!

Subscription expires in a few days (6/22) and I've decided that,
in-keeping with my theory that there are many, very good Freeware
Programs out there that we are all using (the Spybots, Ad-aware's,
HJT, etc, etc.) that there are also good AV Programs that don't cost
an arm and a leg.

Based on opinions here and in other Forums I'm going to go with AVG.

And, since Norton AV is labeled as a "Resource Hog", I'll be interested
to see if I notice a difference in performance in my XP Home (I never
see less than 4% CPU Usage when I bring up the Task Manager)
once I remove NAV.

Telstar

[JohnWill]

I've used both AVAST and AVG anti-virus, both have worked well.

[hermes]

I raised a post here a while back when my computer caught the Nortonanti Virus. Wrecked the PC. Symantec's answer; tough.