Symantec subscription renewal

[hominoidea]

Ok. The thing is my Norton Antivirus says its subscription will end in a few weeks from now. I take it that if I don't pay the 20€/$ for subscription renewal I'm all out of protection from new viruses. I was genuinely surprised since it's been, what, 2 months when I bought this laptop and I thought this antivirus software would be included in the prize. Or atleast a lot more longer.

Now I'm turning in to you guys for confirmation. Should I pay and stick with this (Norton Antivirus 2003) or is there other options?

[ian]

You could try AVG which is a free antivirus program - I've been testing it at work since I heard about it here and it seems to be fine. Just Google AVG and you'll find it.

[n3il]

I second Ian's suggestion - AVG works much better in my opinion.

The NAV shipped with TPs has a 90 day subscription - after that you have to pay to get the updates etc.

No great loss as far as I am concerned - NAV seems very bloated and can cause more problems than it solves.

Give AVG a bash - you wont be disappointed.

HTH

[synapse]

You can also look at upgrading to 2004 which includes a year of subscriptions. Though I would take a look at alternatives too.

[erik]

i've been using AVG since version 4.x and haven't looked back.   updates are free and you can buy a two-year license for about $35.

AVG has found new viruses on some of my clients' computers which already had norton corporate installed.   that fact alone sells most people on the switch.

www.grisoft.com

-erik

[hominoidea]

The AVG is then worth atleast the try and I can forget the Norton for now. Thanks for the replies all.

As a matter of fact I have a student licence for McAfee and use it on my desktop, but I'm a bit iffy about it.