McAfee vs. Norton anti-virus
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Name: GaryK
Date: January 5, 2000 at 10:36:24 Pacific
Subject: McAfee vs. Norton anti-virus |
Comment: Hello all, The other day I scanned my HDD with NAV 4.0 and to make a long story short, the anti-virus killed my HDD even though I didn't have a virus. Symantec says it's a programming error and has a fix that is a whole lot of work when you have no virus. Question is, whose anti-virus is better? I have only used the aforementioned Norton. Is McAfee better? Better customer service than the Symantec idiots? Thanks, Gary
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Response Number 1
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Name: Mike
Date: January 5, 2000 at 10:42:33 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)If you are going to just be using your computer as a stand alone and not hook it up to a network then go with McAfee because it works great with Microsoft. Heck Microsoft packages McAfee with WIN98 Plus so whatever works for Microsoft works for me. I have been using Mcafee for over 2 years never had a problem getting updates or anything else I needed.
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Response Number 2
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Name: NESTIAM
Date: January 5, 2000 at 12:10:47 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)McAfee works Ok, however, don't expect any improvement with their tech support over Norton's. They recently put out an update which erased a vital file in their product (WBHOOK32.DLL). Hundreds of messages across the web attest to the poor response they gave, not to mention their failure to post a replacement file for people to download.
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Name: Joe
Date: January 5, 2000 at 12:15:20 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)USE F-PROT !!!! It's free, and it cleans viruses, not just founds ! JoE, the rainmaker
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Name: ken
Date: January 5, 2000 at 19:02:30 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I have used both and like both of them they are 2 of the best available, but I find mcafee slows down my system more than norton did.
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Response Number 6
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Name: SUmo BoB
Date: July 17, 2001 at 16:30:39 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Mcafee may take up system resources on their older versions but they are making their versions less of a system lag now. I think Mcafee is the best all around compared to Norton because it has easy updates, is more compatible, and the easiest to find the licensed version's off the net!
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Response Number 7
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Name: davey
Date: August 15, 2001 at 14:23:54 Pacific
Subject: McAfee vs. Norton anti-virus
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Reply: (edit)Mcafee crashes your computer then eats it up. this is not good. norton is quick easy and simple. norton also only eats what you tell it. it's not a pig.
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