Norton 360 on Vista Dell - good or bad?

Hi,

A friend just purchased a new Dell desktop running on Vista and whilst
ordering it online I noticed, in the UK anyhow, the AV option did not
include Norton 360 as a purchase option.

My friend has asked me to recommend a good AV product and I was initially
going to suggest Norton 360 to combine AV and spyware detection but I have
since read numerous posts online about problems with Norton 360 from slowing
down PCs through blocking of www sites to install/uninstall nightmares. I
now wonder if Dell are not offering it because of these such problems?

I am leaning towards suggesting NIS 2007 instead now.

Positive thoughts and suggestions welcome.

Thanks,


J.

"John Smith" <*@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:QIdbi.9799$...
> Hi,
>
> A friend just purchased a new Dell desktop running on Vista and whilst
> ordering it online I noticed, in the UK anyhow, the AV option did not
> include Norton 360 as a purchase option.
>
> My friend has asked me to recommend a good AV product and I was initially
> going to suggest Norton 360 to combine AV and spyware detection but I have
> since read numerous posts online about problems with Norton 360 from
> slowing down PCs through blocking of www sites to install/uninstall
> nightmares. I now wonder if Dell are not offering it because of these such
> problems?
>
> I am leaning towards suggesting NIS 2007 instead now.
>
> Positive thoughts and suggestions welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> J.
>

Try AVG before you spend money on Norton or McAfee. Link to their site:
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5


Direct download link to AV product:
http://free.grisoft.com/softw/70free...e_472a1024.exe

Direct download link to anti-spyware product:
http://free.grisoft.com/softw/70free...p-7.5.1.36.exe

I second the suggestion of AVG over Norton. I have been using AVG for
months now and it's great. I have had problems with both Nortan and
McAfee and am going to stick with free AVG, Zone Alarm, and Spybot
(although I don't know if Zone Alarm has come out with a Vista version
of its free firewall yet).

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:27:36 -0500, "S.Lewis" <>
wrote:

>
>"John Smith" <*@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:QIdbi.9799$...
>> Hi,
>>
>> A friend just purchased a new Dell desktop running on Vista and whilst
>> ordering it online I noticed, in the UK anyhow, the AV option did not
>> include Norton 360 as a purchase option.
>>
>> My friend has asked me to recommend a good AV product and I was initially
>> going to suggest Norton 360 to combine AV and spyware detection but I have
>> since read numerous posts online about problems with Norton 360 from
>> slowing down PCs through blocking of www sites to install/uninstall
>> nightmares. I now wonder if Dell are not offering it because of these such
>> problems?
>>
>> I am leaning towards suggesting NIS 2007 instead now.
>>
>> Positive thoughts and suggestions welcome.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> J.
>>
>
>Try AVG before you spend money on Norton or McAfee. Link to their site:
>http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5
>
>
>Direct download link to AV product:
>http://free.grisoft.com/softw/70free...e_472a1024.exe
>
>Direct download link to anti-spyware product:
>http://free.grisoft.com/softw/70free...p-7.5.1.36.exe
>

Free is better.

I use AVG (free.grisoft.com), although Avast is excellent too. For
spyware, I use the free version of Adaware.

Both Norton and McAfee have gotten so huge that they bog down a machine.

Tom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Smith [mailto:*@hotmail.com]
> Posted At: Monday, June 11, 2007 11:18 AM
> Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
> Conversation: Norton 360 on Vista Dell - good or bad?
> Subject: Norton 360 on Vista Dell - good or bad?
>
> Hi,
>
> A friend just purchased a new Dell desktop running on Vista and whilst
> ordering it online I noticed, in the UK anyhow, the AV option did not
> include Norton 360 as a purchase option.
>
> My friend has asked me to recommend a good AV product and I was
> initially
> going to suggest Norton 360 to combine AV and spyware detection but I
> have
> since read numerous posts online about problems with Norton 360 from
> slowing
> down PCs through blocking of www sites to install/uninstall
nightmares.
> I
> now wonder if Dell are not offering it because of these such problems?
>
> I am leaning towards suggesting NIS 2007 instead now.
>
> Positive thoughts and suggestions welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> J.

I recommend, NOD32 from www.eset.com.

Not free but very good av.

Bob

"John Smith" <*@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:QIdbi.9799$...
> Hi,
>
> A friend just purchased a new Dell desktop running on Vista and whilst
> ordering it online I noticed, in the UK anyhow, the AV option did not
> include Norton 360 as a purchase option.
>
> My friend has asked me to recommend a good AV product and I was initially
> going to suggest Norton 360 to combine AV and spyware detection but I have
> since read numerous posts online about problems with Norton 360 from
> slowing down PCs through blocking of www sites to install/uninstall
> nightmares. I now wonder if Dell are not offering it because of these such
> problems?
>
> I am leaning towards suggesting NIS 2007 instead now.
>
> Positive thoughts and suggestions welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> J.
>

Bob wrote:
> I recommend, NOD32 from www.eset.com.
>
> Not free but very good av.

<snip>

Ditto.

Good product. Good support. *VERY* low on system resources!

--
Notan

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:37:18 -0500, Journey <> wrote:

>
>(although I don't know if Zone Alarm has come out with a Vista version
>of its free firewall yet).
>

Not yet Vista capable but they are working on it and expect to have it
in X months.

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:18:08 GMT, "John Smith" <*@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>A friend just purchased a new Dell desktop running on Vista and whilst
>ordering it online I noticed, in the UK anyhow, the AV option did not
>include Norton 360 as a purchase option.
>
>My friend has asked me to recommend a good AV product and I was initially
>going to suggest Norton 360 to combine AV and spyware detection but I have
>since read numerous posts online about problems with Norton 360 from slowing
>down PCs through blocking of www sites to install/uninstall nightmares. I
>now wonder if Dell are not offering it because of these such problems?
>
>I am leaning towards suggesting NIS 2007 instead now.
>
>Positive thoughts and suggestions welcome.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>J.
>

I use ZoneAlarm Security Suite v 6.5 not version 7 because it's
supposedly buggy (firewall, etc..) and no problems. Others use the
free version of ZoneAlarm (firewall) with the free version of AVG
(anti virus protection) and it too is supposedly very good. I'd stay
away from Norton because it hogs too much memory/resources and will
either freeze up or crash your pc. I did use it and after the 3rd
crash said goodbye for good and never missed it.

And I read that NOD32 is very good but I can't speak from experience.

In article <QIdbi.9799$>, *@hotmail.com
says...
> Hi,
>
> A friend just purchased a new Dell desktop running on Vista and whilst
> ordering it online I noticed, in the UK anyhow, the AV option did not
> include Norton 360 as a purchase option.
>
> My friend has asked me to recommend a good AV product and I was initially
> going to suggest Norton 360 to combine AV and spyware detection but I have
> since read numerous posts online about problems with Norton 360 from slowing
> down PCs through blocking of www sites to install/uninstall nightmares. I
> now wonder if Dell are not offering it because of these such problems?
>
> I am leaning towards suggesting NIS 2007 instead now.
>
> Positive thoughts and suggestions welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> J.

Go with AVG as suggested........NIS stinks overall, but especially on
Wista.

Tom Scales <> wrote:
> Free is better.

> I use AVG (free.grisoft.com), although Avast is excellent too. For
> spyware, I use the free version of Adaware.

> Both Norton and McAfee have gotten so huge that they bog down a machine.

And neither work. Norton will grind your machine to a halt just doing a
daily scan. McAfee doesn't seem capable of finding viruses. My inlaws
bought a new machine with McAfee on it. I uninstalled McAfee, and
installed Avast! (another free AV program - avast.com) Avast found 3
trojan horses that McAfee missed. Fortunatly, they hadn't been triggered.

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