[dba-Tech] Antivirus Software - Who do we like, who do we not like?

Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com
Wed May 25 08:07:17 CDT 2005


Hi all,  I'm looking for opinions here.

Got a message from my Norton Antivirus 2000 this morning that my
subscription for updates was about to expire and I needed to renew.
OK, no big deal, let's to it right now..... so I click the Renew Now
button thing and it comes up and tells me that NAV 2000 has been
DISCONTINUED and I have to upgrade to 2005 version. I recall hearing
people indicate that they had issues with NAV 2005 so I backed out and
did not continue - plus they want $39.95 to upgrade. I know I have
seen it in stores for less than that.

I've been a faithfull NAV user for many years. I have Norton Internet
Securiity 2004 on another machine which includes the NAV 2004 - and
while I have come to HATE the Norton Firewall, the 2004 Antivirus
hasn't caused me any grief. I don't use that machind for E-Mail
though. The machine that is expiring is my main e-mail machine and so
I do need as good of protection as I can get.

The most recent machine I bought - a Notebook from Dell - uses McAfee.
That's just what it came with. So maybe Dell has changed over from
Norton to McAffee on their new machines?

So, please post your stories of horror or success with NAV 2005 - or
other versions or even other companies software because I will need to
be making a purchase soon and I'm not sure what direction to go.

-- 
Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com



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