Agreed, we know NAV & MacAwful suck for over 5 years
now. Let's talk to the
"other" Symantec AV product that is most definitely
NOT norton SAV. I don't care
if you have to get a copy by nefarious means it's
better than any consumer level AV.
Sure the updates are large, welcome to 2008. They can
be downloaded & installed
manually also so having to do liveupdate is not the
only way. At least SAV
sticks to the core job of AV protection, without bloat
of a "security suite",
and does so without dumbing down the interface like
many consumer AV apps have
adopted.
Chris Reeves wrote:
> I don't generally give people a free if they don't
want it.
>
> However, in regards to the theory that 'Paid is
better then free'. I would
> counter that every time. I've absolutely
recommended Avast to numerous
> people, including having them pay for the thing if
they feel like it.
>
> Why? There are a lot of reasons, but the biggest
are:
>
> * I've never seen more junky, bulky programs then
the current versions of
> Norton & McAfee. I don't care about AVS Bulletin
reports that show how well
> they perform.. because they live in a kind of dream
world in which everyone
> is always 100% updated and nothing wrong happens.
Updating either of those
> programs is a BITCH. Out of the box, installing
Norton 2008, your first
> download (as of today) is 56MB(!) For the love of
pete, this is ridiculous.
> While people don't like to think this way, we have a
ton of people either
> still on dialup or on life-line DSL (AT&T's 128k
plan) so a download of that
> size means they are taking tons of time... and how
many do it? Not as many
> as we'd like to think. Meanwhile, general updates
for the free versions are
> smaller; hell, I can download the whole program for
less.
>
> * Many of the 'features' in Norton/McAfee have an
incredible propensity to
> go wrong. You know how many times I've had to use
NRT (Norton Removal Tool,
> available at their website) to get Norton off
because it wouldn't uninstall
> correctly or left Winsock broken? The reason we
even had to uninstall is
> because of things like.. password lost on parental
control features, in one
> case a virus (which it didn't detect) immediately
banged Norton's firewall
> so the user was hosed.
>
> * McAfee's annoying pop-ups. Please, if I want a
program to continuously
> pop up and tell me shit or offer me to buy other
programs all the time, I
> might as well be spyware infected. McAfee's
incessant offers and other BS
> totally inert any reason to buy it.
>
> * Both programs create a significant performance
drop that doesn't equate to
> the performance they do.
>
> Of the paid AVs, ESET is the one that I would
recommend most.. after
> Symantec's embarrassing heuristic issues this year
with Yahoo! Webmail and
> Google (detecting as Feebs?) as well as their
continued bloat....
>
> Look, I have two offices that are small offices I
see often.
>
> One is setup with 6 computers, everyone running
Avast and a ClarkConnect
> Firewall with AV. I've not had a single issue there
in two years (virus
> wise).
>
> The other went all Symantec, with a Symantec
Firewall w/AV and Small
> Business Pack (which isn't corporate edition,
damnit, but like a 5 pack of
> standard Norton AV) ....
>
> Guess who I've seen at least a dozen times with
issues? Now part of it is
> that I believe the ClarkConnect Firewall is
infinitely better then
> Symantec's, but still, the proof for me is right
there in the pudding.
>
>
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