What about Norton Antivirus 2014?
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- Aug 3, 2013
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- Sep 17, 2013
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Norton is in worst state. Its malware detection rate is low. Its proactive protecion is also very bad.
You are wasting your money buying it.
good products are ESET, F SECURE, EMSISOFT, Bullguard, 360 INTERNET SECURITY, Trend Micro, Kaspersky.
You are wasting your money buying it.
good products are ESET, F SECURE, EMSISOFT, Bullguard, 360 INTERNET SECURITY, Trend Micro, Kaspersky.
- Jan 31, 2014
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- Jan 31, 2014
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Are you sure about that? I have heard similar reviews. I know that detection is quite low, but others say when online it is good.
I was a fan of emsisoft, but a little heavy on a netbook.
ESET is not fully compatible with Windows 8.1 Update 1.
Bullguard is buggy.
Trend Micro never tried.
Kaspersky lighter now, but still heavy on netbook.
360 IS, big updates but light on system.
F-secure, never tried.
- Aug 3, 2013
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I had installed norton on my other PC before i got bitdefender, like i said i used to offer me good protection. I used to slow my pc only during the scan process. I used to borrow my friends stuffs and use it on my pc, it had great detection. Still now Bitdefender Didnt catch what norton had. The IDM Patch was never caught by BIS but was detected only from Trend Micro and Norton. And now i am wishing to buy a norton product for myself, as soon as my ESET expires. In my current PC. Many of my friends are still using norton, until now they say their pc is awesome. SO if u still hav doubt why dont u test yourself?
- Jan 31, 2014
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Actually I am using a trial version, and it so slow in reacting to malwares, and low detection rates - about 60%.
- Jan 22, 2014
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- Jan 31, 2014
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- Jan 22, 2014
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If u talking about netbook, better u install light antivirus like webroot , Baidu, Qihoo or try avira or avast free with window firewall. Also u can add great url filter like K9 ( customize), Panda url filter & Avira browser safety. I tested K9 ( customize settings ) against malicious url & it's blocked almost every url, Avira & panda url filter are great 
- Jan 22, 2014
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It doesn't lags on my pc, r u talking about netbook? maybe it slow down a bit when qihoo updates, but didn't feel any slow down on my pc.
- Nov 4, 2013
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That IDM patch may just be a false positive. Because 2 detection is not enough to say the file is malicious since every crack tends to be detected by antiviruses even they are harmless. Especially the one is from norton as it says every file suspicious if it's too new and not being used by many of its users.
Norton's raw file detection is horrendous as you can see from the malware hub in this forum. Surely that doesn't mean anything but not every computer is connected to internet everytime. And it's webshield is pretty much non existent, it can only detect the most common phishing and malware sites which are also being detected by google chrome's and firefox's malware filter anyway. The only good thing that I can say about norton is that its intrusion prevention system is pretty good and able to block network attacks successfully. It's also very light but that's because it does its job mostly online to check a file's reputation. If a file is new and not commonly used by norton users, norton will alert even the cleanest file just because it's newly released. Also the last 2 products I tested from norton (2013-2014) were too buggy. They had tons of issues with windows 8, showing 2 taskbar icons, not able to scan, bsods, random error messages that can't be fixed etc.
Bottom line is if it was 2012, I would glady recommend norton but today norton is just a mess and not worth the money for me. Even the free products such as avira, comodo, avast and 360 are betten then norton.
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- Jan 31, 2014
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Netbook,yes
Yes, using K9.
Avira- Too heavy!
Baidu -has scanning errors. Only the Quick Scan works.
Webroot - don't have the money
- Jan 22, 2014
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Ok so what is ur settings in K9? Try avast free antivirus with window firewall then? Did u enable UAC & smartscreen?
- Jan 31, 2014
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- Jan 22, 2014
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Try avast then & install adblock addon in ur browser. it helps u to block malicious ads too. In K9, use custom settings . better u tick "unrated" in k9 custom settings coz that's how it detects more malicious url in my test. also add panda url filter, it's great at detecting malicious url, if k9 miss something panda will caught it.
- Jan 22, 2014
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It's protection is not better. it's on demand scanner is failure for now & 0 day protection is not good. i watched it reviews in youtube. U using Eset Nod32 & it's very good. If u think ESET is heavy for ur PC & u want a light & strong AV then i suggest u to use qihoo coz it's better then Baidu & webroot.
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- Jan 22, 2014
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Or u can try this AV, here it's in giveaway -
Outpost Security Suite Pro ver. 9.1 - 1 year license
Outpost Security Suite Pro ver. 9.1 - 1 year license
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