McAfee VS Norton

[ITlover]

Lets discuss about McAfee and Norton ,which one of these two Anti-Virus Softwares is more effective and better.

Express your experience and views without hesitation.

Regards,

[kram 2.0]

Sorry to have to make things complicated but of the two, none of them. Norton is generally pretty bloated and McAfee doesn't work. I'd suggest TrendMicro's PC-Cillin 2005 or NOD32.

kram

[Hi Ho]

I will never touch McAfee again. Had WAY too many problems with it from random rebooting to being unable to shut the PC down. When I removed McAfee basicly all the problems I had dissapeared. I have never used Norton. I use AVG AntiVirus. It is far superior and completely free. I have been using it for almost 4 years now and have never had a virus. It takes very little resources and it's an excellent all around package.

[glc]

Norton and McAfee both have top quality detection engines, but they both are hopelessly bloated programs loaded with incompatibility issues. If you want to buy a good security suite that doesn't bring a system to its knees, get the Trend Micro PC-Cillin Security Suite.

That said, why BUY a package when you can get top quality antivirus, firewall, and antispyware applications free? AVG Free/Avast, Zone Alarm/Sygate/Kerio, and Spybot Search & Destroy/Ad-Aware/Spyware Blaster.

[ghost2003]

I would never install either of them but if i had to choose it would be norton. I recommend nod32 or kaspersky if you want a pay av. And AVG7 or avast! if you dont want to pay.

[jimmyrules712]

for anti-virus AVG (free or Nod 32 ($40) are the best, no question. never used trend micro's. Kerio is a great firewall, but i stopped using that whe ni got SP2 (built in firewall).

[glc]

are the best, no question. never used trend micro's.

Then you can't truthfully say that.

[MulderMan]

ive always been fine with avg free myself. tried norton a while back and it takes up alot of system memory, alteast with me anyway.

[kram 2.0]

Originally Posted by jimmyrules712 for anti-virus AVG (free or Nod 32 ($40) are the best, no question. never used trend micro's.

TrendMicro has done some very nice updates on their 2005 version software - don't know if you are comparing the 2004 version to NOD32 and AVG. Heck, I use all three - I think they are all equally decent for what you pay.

kram

[ITlover]

I appreciate your inputs, well as far as McAfee is concerned,I have both Norton-Anti Virus and McAfee installed on my computer, Norton-Anti Virus didnot give me any problem after installation ,but yesterday when I installed
McAfee,since then when ever I boot my computer, it hangs and doesnot respond.

I'll try the anti-viruses which you have recommended.

Regards,

[Cricket]

Why are you installing 2 anti-virus programs on your computer? The active scanners will more than likely clash/conflict with each other and cause problems.

Cricket

[ITlover]

Cricket ,thats exactly what I was thinking, now tell me what should I do? which Anti-Virus software should I delete?

Iam confused

[Cricket]

Between those two? Norton is probably less problematic. McAfee has been long known to cause system instabilities. Norton is just bloated.

Cricket

[Hi Ho]

I would remove both of them and install AVG. Why use those bloated programs when you can have just as good projection in a much smaller package?

[kram 2.0]

Do you need to choose either Norton or McAfee? Then install Norton - it actually works.

kram

[longrawker]

Originally Posted by Hi Ho I use AVG AntiVirus. It is far superior and completely free. I have been using it for almost 4 years now and have never had a virus. It takes very little resources and it's an excellent all around package.

I agree totally, i have the paid for version though, the full version. I have however used the free one, and havent had any problems with either of the two. It's far better than Norton ever could be. This is from direct experience.