Norton Security Renewal - renew or look elsewhere

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musicfan

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My 3 months free nortons internet security is now due for renewal. Should I renew at a cost of €65 for a year?

I've looked at previous threads on internet security but for someone who is new to the Internet / PC's etc they appear to be very technical!! If I decide not to renew with nortons is there one website / company where I can to go purchase / download software that will secure against everything (previous threads seem to suggest lots of differnet software to protect against different things!!!).

Thanks
 
Just use Zone Alarm for a firewall.

AVG Anti-Virus for anti-virus.

AVG Anit-Sypware / Spybot / Ad-Aware for spyware.

All free.
 
anseo said:
Just use Zone Alarm for a firewall.

AVG Anti-Virus for anti-virus.

AVG Anit-Sypware / Spybot / Ad-Aware for spyware.

All free.
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Had a look at the Zone Alarm and AVG websites.

Zone Alarm is not free - am I looking in the wrong place??

Re AVG - Should I download the Anti Virus free Edition (basic protection) and the Anti Spyware Free Edition?

Would I be better off paying for something or is this sufficient for a home laptop?

Sorry if these questions are basic but its my first home laptop and I know nothing about what security I should have.

What is wrong with Nortons?
 
musicfan said:
Zone Alarm is not free - am I looking in the wrong place??
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Free edition is available here. I use Comodo Pro free edition these days.
Re AVG - Should I download the Anti Virus free Edition (basic protection) and the Anti Spyware Free Edition?
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Yes.
Would I be better off paying for something or is this sufficient for a home laptop?
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I have run the tools mentioned above on my personal laptop and have never had any problems.
What is wrong with Nortons?
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Slow/resource hungry, nag screens etc.

See [broken link removed] and the "clean PC" thread pinned at the top of this forum for more free tools recommendations.
 
anseo said:
Just use Zone Alarm for a firewall.

AVG Anti-Virus for anti-virus.

AVG Anit-Sypware / Spybot / Ad-Aware for spyware.

All free.
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This is the way to go, I have been using 1 & 2 for years, as have friends, no problems. We use the commercial version of AVG at work and no problems either, cheaper than the common ones too, e.g Norton.
 
anseo said:
Just use Zone Alarm for a firewall.

AVG Anti-Virus for anti-virus.

AVG Anit-Sypware / Spybot / Ad-Aware for spyware.

All free.
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Hi Anseo. I looked at AVG and I didn't see a link for free anti-virus or spyware. What should I be looking at?
 
I started with Norton like yourself but found it very processor hungry particulary in my laptop.I then decided to try AVG anti-virus(free) along with Comodo firewall but with children using the Laptop it was too intrusive asking all sorts of questions which caused problems.I'm now using Kaspersky internet security 7 which I bought on e-bay for €30,three user edition(disc included).All is going well so far.
 
aircobra19 said:
Everything.
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couldn't agree more I hate norton,, it seems to cause alot of problems, nut I cant remove it from my laptop, anytime i have tried I was told it cant be removed as it was being used by another programme (i think I have everything turned off) any advice on this would be great.
 
thanks for the tip Clubman, but that is abit above my head, is maintenance/recovery mode when you hit F8 on start up?
 
Do you have to uninstall all other forms of antivirus protection before you download something like AVG antivirus/anti-spyware (free versions) or can they run in tandem with other sysytems such as F-Secure?
 
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