Do you use Norton Antivirus on your T series Thinkpad?

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rocketman · #1 Post by **rocketman** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 8:42 pm

The T42 I received came with 6 months of Norton Antivirus which I'm not so crazy about. I just saw thhis review of Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2005 on Cnet.com:
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3513_7-555 ... =cnetfd.sd
Are you using the Norton Antivirus that came with your T series notebook or another? Is anyone using PC-cillin?

kjarrett · #2 Post by **kjarrett** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 8:52 pm

Use it, love it, plan to renew and never change. NAV rocks!

Per the article:

"This year's version of Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security, CNET's Editors' Choice for 2005, includes an antivirus scanner, a firewall, antispam and antispyware capabilities, and parental controls--and that's only the start. Trend Micro also added a wireless network monitor this year, allowing you to enable or deny wireless access for others to your network. And Trend made it possible to apply one set of security configuration rules across every computer on your home network (other apps require you to copy the configurations from machine to machine). Here's the kicker: PC-cillin costs the same as Norton's or McAfee's antivirus apps. It also makes barely a dent in your system resources; when it's scanning, you'll hardly notice PC-cillin."

I am already using products I like in almost all those areas, and where I'm not (wifi), I've got things locked down via confirguration of the LAN itself. I love NAV, and don't need bloatware. They can keep PC-Cillin!

-kj-

CChoi83 · #3 Post by **CChoi83** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:14 pm

I uninstalled the preinstalled NAV 90-day trial as soon as I received the T42 this morning. I have NAV Corporate Edition so I use that.

brewt · #4 Post by **brewt** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:43 pm

I don't like NAV (well, I don't mind the interface), but the virus defintions are quite lacking in terms of things like spyware and such. Other virus programs such as f-prot and trendmicro's one detect more.

k3vb0t · #5 Post by **k3vb0t** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:45 pm

I'll use it until it runs out, I guess. I was waiting on AVG to bring out their new free anti-virus, which I use on my desktop.

AVG + AdAware + Spybot + ZoneAlarm = happy ThinkPad

tthomas · #6 Post by **tthomas** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 1:58 pm

Yeah I ditched NAV on my 2379R9U and I run PC-Cillin.. Resource load is minimal.

stgreek · #7 Post by **stgreek** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 7:19 pm

If you can get your hands on it, NAV Corporate edition is the best antivirus around. NAV "home" edition is very good as well, but a major resource hog.

Plinkerton · #8 Post by **Plinkerton** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 8:04 pm

I am using it right now, but when it runs out, I think I will try AVG for a while.

Hangfire · #9 Post by **Hangfire** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 8:15 pm

Have not used NAV in many years, try Command AV, much better, IMHO;-)

eriqesque · #10 Post by **eriqesque** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 8:37 pm

Dump NAV and Download AVG and you will never look back

#11 Post by **carbon_unit** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:00 pm

A couple of weeks ago I went to a clients home and their NAV 2004 was about to run out in a couple of months, I told them about AVG and they wanted me to install it for them. It found 7 viruses that NAV had been missing for who knows how long. The corporate version is probably better but the home version sucks.
AVG just released a new version of their free AV solution and the old one will no longer update after the first of the year.
Head over to http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/1/ and get it.

Ins0mniak · #12 Post by **Ins0mniak** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:46 pm

eriqesque wrote:Dump NAV and Download AVG and you will never look back

I used norton for a long time. I'm currently using AVG free version, no complaints.

t41user · #13 Post by **t41user** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:35 pm

Every tech savy individual I know claims to find problems with Norton products that they do not find in comparable non-Norton products. However, every review I have ever seen by a respected, industry standard computer magazine or consumer guide always ranks Norton #1 and never finds any of the alleged drawbacks that tech savy individuals find. Can anyone provide any references to reliable sources that document these alleged drawbacks?

aleung · #14 Post by **aleung** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 11:40 pm

those NAV 200x is nasty. Corp edition is much better

lvlolvlo · #15 Post by **lvlolvlo** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:30 am

personally i use nav corp ed 9.0. i have the 04 intalled on one of my desktops but don't like it much. too much resources are consumed. go with symantec av corp ed and you'll be pretty happy.

aleung · #16 Post by **aleung** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:45 am

that's what I did I used NAV Corp edition instead of NAV 200x. This is what I found. eventually nav 200x have update before a new version come out. that update will consume a lot of resource(maybe push you to buy new one). but I switched to Mcafee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0 now. since it monitor the network connection also. Access Connector didn't work right.

egibbs · #17 Post by **egibbs** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 8:06 am

I've been using NAV personal for years (and it is slow to load) - just never changed out of inertia.

But my company has recently switched to McAfee and is implementing a policy that won't let you connect to the network unless you have McAfee running and fully updated. So I guess I'll have to switch.

Anyone running McAfee? Any issues, how do you like it, etc.?

Ed Gibbs

aleung · #18 Post by **aleung** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 4:50 pm

actually i like it. but the thing is Access connect don't seems work right with it. I tried it with pevious version Access connect. It works fine

SimonCC · #19 Post by **SimonCC** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 5:16 pm

I am quite astounded at how many people use nav, I think its an awful peace of software. It is a resource hog, its likely to cause blue screens of death and its detections algorythms are average. I use nod32, its VERY light, has a 100% in the wild detection rate and is very reliable, its actually what microsoft use to guard their software in their labs! When you load nod32 after removing nav you will feal a performance differance for sure, and realise just how bad nav was.

dd · #20 Post by dd » Thu Nov 18, 2004 5:41 pm

Norton seems to be a bit of a system hog!

I agree with k3vb0t

AVG + AdAware + Spybot + ZoneAlarm = happy ThinkPad

Dont forget to have a look at jdhurst secure thinkpads recomendations:

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... ght=secure

rhema83 · #21 Post by **rhema83** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 6:16 pm

I only use NAV Corporate Edition. The "Personal" edition is crap and hogs way too much resources. Ugh!

rocketman · #22 Post by **rocketman** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 6:21 pm

Can the NAV corporate edition be purchased?

aleung · #23 Post by **aleung** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 6:51 pm

yes. depend on how many client. the basic is like $700 IIRC

nello · #24 Post by **nello** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 3:37 am

NO!
I use McAfee7.1,It's best,I think!

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