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Originally Posted by CRussel
(Re Norton A/V)
Never. The one program we won't allow on any PCs in our domain.
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I concur. Back when, I ran Symantec Corporate, Norton's enterprise oriented sibling. It installed with no problems, and consumed few resources. Norton A/V did not play well with others, and would not go away without dynamite if you decided you
didn't want it.
The version of Symantec I was running reached end-of-life and would not get updates. I no longer worked for the employer whose site license covered the version I had, so a new version would be on my dime. And the only things it had ever "caught" had been false positives. I dropped it and haven't missed it.
On the old netbook running XP Home, I don't
run A/V. On the desktop and laptops running Win10, I use Windows Defender, but that's mostly to shut Windows up about my protection status.
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Blossom -- there are perfectly good, even free, AV programs out there. Though probably the best thing you could do is upgrade from Vista to Win7 or even Win10.
Free: [LIST][*]Windows Defender -- It's actually all I ever use on my own PCs for traditional AV and it's actually quite good.
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It's what I use here, has been trouble free, and quite adequate.
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[*]AVG -- been around forever, and had a free version forever. [*]Avast -- been around forever, and had a free version forever. And now owned by my preferred PDF reader company, Nitro.
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Hmmm. What I use is the open source Sumatra PDF, which also handles ePub and Mobi eBook files. What pleases you about Nitro?
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[*]MalwareBytes -- Not A-V, but a good addition to any conventional A-V. There is a paid version which you might want, but I work with the free only.
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I have that here and run it occasionally. It never finds anything. The payware version provides "real time" scanning and protection. I can't be bothered.
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Dennis