Norton Anti-virus

[opus42no5]

Is Norton better to use than the various free programs on the internet? Would it clean up my PC? I mean, things like ad-aware are just not cutting it and also Spybot.

 

[peterhuang913]

Avast is better than Norton, plus its free. There are many other free programs that make Norton look like a piece of useless software.

 

[Vormund]

Indeed, I don't see Norton doing much better in any respect. I used to keep a current copy of Norton with the "free after rebate" or close-to, but they're not even worth the hassle now. As far as cleaning goes, I tell everyone I know this: reformat. Then just use common sense (not running random executables/batch files/etc.), and as the "first line", any AV that has an active scan... then there's Firefox's adblocker with NoScript... I know that's not much of an answer, but it's too true to ignore.

 

[ECTech]

Here are the free AV's

1) Avast!
2) AVG
3) Clanwin
4) Antivir
5) Pctools AV

in my experiance with these listed, Avast! caught the most virues. However, AVG is much better on resources.

Links - http://esd.element5.com/affiliate.h...c8fc0811bb0f/antivirus/avg75free_476a1048.exe - AVG

http://esd.element5.com/affiliate.h...b1522c475ac8fc0811bb0f/antivirus/setupeng.exe - Avast!