Avast in talks to merge with Norton

[Venustus]

Best interface antivirus : Trend Micro

They hired a professional to design the ui. The best so far

 

[peterfat11]

Best interface antivirus : Trend Micro

thats nice customizable.

 

[show-Zi]

I had used Sygate's excellent free firewall on Win XP before it was acquired by Norton, then discontinued. I ended up using Kerio firewall until moving to Windows 7. (Interestingly, I had also switched from Norton AV to Avast Free because I had so many problems with Norton on that old computer.)

Norton is an army ant. Nothing remains after passing.

About Defender.
I'm more dissatisfied with the fact that it's unfriendly and instinctively inoperable than clunky.

 

[Dave Russo]

Norton was trying to sell me extra support, even though I had the utility program running, saying I had programs slowing down my computer, and constant restarts, for me Kaspersky is way smoother to use, but I am staying with Microsoft defender, backups and keeping system restore points, for me its way less bloat

 

[peterfat11]

Norton was trying to sell me extra support, even though I had the utility program running, saying I had programs slowing down my computer, and constant restarts, for me Kaspersky is way smoother to use, but I am staying with Microsoft defender, backups and keeping system restore points, for me its way less bloat

yes you cloud see ads in my norton at the bottom, it show NUP for me

 

[peterfat11]

Norton is an army ant. Nothing remains after passing.

About Defender.
I'm more dissatisfied with the fact that it's unfriendly and instinctively inoperable than clunky.

everything it bought will disappear at some point, such as pctools, it will lead you to norton if you go to pctools.com

 

[Azure]

In my brief moment in wikipedia, I found this article.

i thought people here would like to see all the mergers/acquisitions Norton has gotten

List of mergers and acquisitions by Gen Digital - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[ForgottenSeer 72227]

In my brief moment in wikipedia, I found this article.

i thought people here would like to see all the mergers/acquisitions Norton has gotten

List of mergers and acquisitions by Gen Digital - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

They've done quite a few over the years, but they seem to be sweeping up some big names in the AV industry recently and in relatively short order. As it's already been said, this seems very much like a marketshare ploy...however, it still remains to be seen what their end game plan is going to be. WIll all of these companies/products still exist in 5 years?...will their free versions disappear?...or will they keep each company as is? Norton doesn't have the best track record when it comes to keeping the various companies/products they've acquired alive long term....time will tell I guess.

 

[Julian RO]

They hired a professional to design the ui. The best so far

My favorite AV UI was the Avast 2016 one. Very sleek, compact, just wonderful for me.

 

[Anthony Qian]

not bad compared to this

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this is the real clunky, at least WD UI is windows 10 theme

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After all, Norton's UI hasn't changed a lot in at least 5 years....

 

[marcopaone]

Just be patient. Norton will combine the best features from its purchases.

 

[Popolitus]

Just be patient. Norton will combine the best features from its purchases.

u sure?? like they did with pctools? xD

 

[forgottenuser79643]

Historically, they are more interested in the market and technology behind some things, than that they are interested in adding them as features to existing products.

 

[show-Zi]

They've done quite a few over the years, but they seem to be sweeping up some big names in the AV industry recently and in relatively short order. As it's already been said, this seems very much like a marketshare ploy...however, it still remains to be seen what their end game plan is going to be. WIll all of these companies/products still exist in 5 years?...will their free versions disappear?...or will they keep each company as is? Norton doesn't have the best track record when it comes to keeping the various companies/products they've acquired alive long term....time will tell I guess.

Even if Norton buys Avast, I think Avast's software will be inherited. Norton doesn't have a free version, so avast and avg should do that.

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Even if Norton buys Avast, I think Avast's software will be inherited. Norton doesn't have a free version, so avast and avg should do that.

They also have Avira with a free version.

 

[show-Zi]

They also have Avira with a free version.

It's my guess.
Well-known security software, including avira, will function as a lure. The more types of lures you have, the better, so leave the brand as it is. Replace all paid versions of those software with Norton. In other words, Norton can get the brand image as a paid higher version.

 

[peterfat11]

Just be patient. Norton will combine the best features from its purchases.

u sure?? like they did with pctools? xD

like the check mark will be the feature.......

 

[Harputlu]

I loved PC tools. Protection is very good but heavy product. According to its time, it had successful programs such as threatfire.

 

[Julian RO]

In my opinion, Norton's UI is pretty decent for me, but it has lacks in terms of protection. Maybe they will include the Avira engine for better detections, as they bought it in December

Statement re Possible Offer

Here are some more "complex" details about the possible acquisition of Avast by Norton, basically, the statement.

 

[sona]

Norton is targeting free softwares so that it can mine and earn money.
It is also possible that Norton wants to destroy the av industry ? Now who's the next McAfee? It will be better to use WD+ Malwarebytes free + online and offline backup + commonsense + virustotal.