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<blockquote data-quote="Burrito" data-source="post: 882611" data-attributes="member: 72439">True.&nbsp; In fact, I&#039;d ague that in all testing combined in 2019, Norton did better.Hmmm... I dunno about a scam.&nbsp; Certainly the guy who founded LifeLock was a clown.&nbsp; What blackice said.... and.... If I remember correctly, he was a convicted felon -- several times over.&nbsp; I always advised people to pick a better and more reasonably priced credit monitoring organization.&nbsp;&nbsp; And then...&nbsp;&nbsp; I picked up LifeLock at no cost.&nbsp; I now have 5 credit monitoring services going --- and I&#039;m paying for none of them.&nbsp; Most of them are based on this breach or that breach and the offending company providing credit monitoring.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now when I have a credit alert.... LifeLock is always first to notify me.&nbsp; And... try to contact one of the credit monitoring services directly.&nbsp; You can&#039;t.&nbsp;&nbsp; LifeLock always picks up the phone.&nbsp; And it&#039;s damn convenient.&nbsp; I wanted to run down a random credit inquiry I received.&nbsp; You can try to contact the company of the credit inquiry.&nbsp; But that&#039;s mostly a losing proposition.&nbsp; It&#039;s difficult to even find the right place to inquire.&nbsp; The phone number that sometimes appears on credit inquiries is often useless.&nbsp; The credit bureaus only offer the option of freezing your credit.&nbsp; One call to LifeLock... and they took care of the whole thing and reported back to me what they found.&nbsp;&nbsp; I think it&#039;s actually the best one.&nbsp;&nbsp; But.... If I didn&#039;t get it free -- would I pay for it?&nbsp; Probably not.Agree.&nbsp; We may be seeing the beginning of the end of Norton as we know it.&nbsp; The recent SELabs test may be an early indicator that the corporate machinations of Symantec/Norton may not play out well for us consumers.&nbsp; Still too early to tell, but it could be.&nbsp;&nbsp; I run multiple AVs.... and if I were to replace Norton on my machines, I&#039;d look at Bitdefender and ESET.&nbsp; Although... I&#039;ve been running an unmanaged endpoint version of CrowdStrike Falcon on one computer for a few years --- and I like that quite a bit.&nbsp; I like SEP too... but that&#039;s in the same boat as Norton.&nbsp; I was given a comped SentinelOne unmanaged endpoint license.&nbsp; I just have not been motivated enough to try it yet..&nbsp;&nbsp; If I was given a Nyotron or Deep Instinct license.... those would motivate me..</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Burrito, post: 882611, member: 72439"] True. In fact, I'd ague that in all testing combined in 2019, Norton did better. Hmmm... I dunno about a scam. Certainly the guy who founded LifeLock was a clown. What blackice said.... and.... If I remember correctly, he was a convicted felon -- several times over. I always advised people to pick a better and more reasonably priced credit monitoring organization. And then... I picked up LifeLock at no cost. I now have 5 credit monitoring services going --- and I'm paying for none of them. Most of them are based on this breach or that breach and the offending company providing credit monitoring. Now when I have a credit alert.... LifeLock is always first to notify me. And... try to contact one of the credit monitoring services directly. You can't. LifeLock always picks up the phone. And it's damn convenient. I wanted to run down a random credit inquiry I received. You can try to contact the company of the credit inquiry. But that's mostly a losing proposition. It's difficult to even find the right place to inquire. The phone number that sometimes appears on credit inquiries is often useless. The credit bureaus only offer the option of freezing your credit. One call to LifeLock... and they took care of the whole thing and reported back to me what they found. I think it's actually the best one. But.... If I didn't get it free -- would I pay for it? Probably not. Agree. We may be seeing the beginning of the end of Norton as we know it. The recent SELabs test may be an early indicator that the corporate machinations of Symantec/Norton may not play out well for us consumers. Still too early to tell, but it could be. I run multiple AVs.... and if I were to replace Norton on my machines, I'd look at Bitdefender and ESET. Although... I've been running an unmanaged endpoint version of CrowdStrike Falcon on one computer for a few years --- and I like that quite a bit. I like SEP too... but that's in the same boat as Norton. I was given a comped SentinelOne unmanaged endpoint license. I just have not been motivated enough to try it yet.. If I was given a Nyotron or Deep Instinct license.... those would motivate me.. [/QUOTE]

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