Peter Brawley
peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Wed May 25 11:06:04 CDT 2005
Gary, We had W2K/XP machines running NAV/NIS 2003/2004 badly infected. It seemed the more intrusive and bloated NAV became, the less effective it was. We uninstalled NAV/NIS on all machines (not trivial: Norton junk does not want to be uninstalled; expect to spend some time) and installed Grisoft Antivirus (AVG). No problems in half a year. PB --- Gary Kjos wrote: >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. > > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.17 - Release Date: 5/25/2005