Avast Free Antivirus Vs Norton

Jun 6, 2015 - Avast. You can download and install it for free. Turn off the Norton, and see how you like the Avast. Try setting various Given the fact that it s free - its a really good antivirus program. No regrets In reply to: Avast Home VS Norton. After using Avast vs AVG Norton7 Jun 2015McAfee vs. Avast Antivirus7 Jun 2015Avast vs Norton Internet Security Speed on NetBook.1 May 2012More results from www.cnet.comAvast vs. AVG vs. Avira vs. Norton vs. Kaspersky vswww.asecurelife.com/avast-vs-avg-vs-avira-vs-norton-vs-kaspersky/CachedSimilarDec 11, 2014 - Avast is one of the few providers that provides a solid free antivirus version of their software. That is called avast. Free Antivirus. When it comes  Avast -  AVG -  Avira -  AVStrikeAvast vs. Norton vs. Bitdefender Solved - Antivirus www.tomsguide.com/answers/id-2557713/avast-norton.htmlCachedJan 14, 2016 - My Norton free trial is going to run out soon and I would like to know whether I should get Avast Permier, Norton, or Bitdefender Total Security.

Avast Free Antivirus has an upgrade link in the upper-right corner of the main Norton Antivirus leads the paid-software pack owing to its excellent malware.

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Avast is probably cheaper than Norton. Given the cost of a drained Avast vs AVG vs Avira: which is the.

My norton subscription service is going to run out soon and I was just wondering should i just delete norton and get avast home edition. What are the pro and cons. And if I go for avast, is the registration free.

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I would try the. Avast. You can download and install it for free. Turn off the Norton, and see how you like the Avast. Try setting various features, and see what you think. I know there are many free programs which are better than Norton. Go to www.infostar.com, send Paypal

Peter Green a small donation for maintaining this super site, go to the AV page take your pick. I use BitDefender, and I have AVG installed on another PC.

Also several free firewalls, etc. Good Luck.

Hello Markster - I have been using Avast for about a year now and it is free. Everytime I go on line my machine automatically is updated. The only thing I do not particularly care about is that I have to manually do a virus scan. It is very thorough though and when I first downloaded it it had found a virus on my system which trendmicro didn t. Given the fact that it s free - its a really good antivirus program. No regrets here.

I have been using Norton for two years now and I was happy with it s detections but for my computer, it was too slow to load at startup and too slow to use. Also, you have to pay for subscriptions to updates. However, I made the switch to Avast Home which is a free download and I have been very happy with it. It makes my PC runs faster, uses less memory and resources, ahs a high detection rate, has a lot of great features, you can get updates for as long as you want just as long as you register every 14 months for free which is easy enough. Avast Home version is great and best thing about it is that all of it is 100 free - a free download, free updates, free everything. I would definately go with Avast. Although McAfee and Norton were both good for me, Avast seems to use less resources, is faster and is free.

After using Avast for over a year it is really annoying - the annoying pop-up messages for updating and the stupid licence renewal process has made me switch over to Trend Micro PC-Cillin Security Suite. I won t go back to Norton because it wastes my system resources and slows down my PC. But PC Cillin is fast, doesnt waste my system resources and is easy to use, has great features, is affordable and overall much better.

Avast Home is free to home users. I use and find it worth it. Norton, to me works good but it has a tendency to be a resource hog and also tends to bog system down and on top of that, when it has a true problem, its never Norton s fault, its yours. Visit Norton support forums an d see how users are befuddled with the working of Norton AV.

FYI - I ve gotten away from Norton products and I loved SystemWorks whcih when bundled with the AV and similar did wonders but when it falters, it falls hard.

I am having problems with the Norton update and have had several emails from them on the subject.

I have decided to disable Norton and download Avast - I can at least try.

you will have to disable it via the start up programs msconfig just clicking the icon in the taskbar will not be enough

I used Norton for three years. Will not use again. I use AVG which is very similar to Avast. It uses half the resources of Norton and does the same job. I have several personal reasons for not liking Norton anymore. One of its programs fatally crashed my new puter running XP. Its still sitting on my floor gathering dust bunnies. As mentioned it is a resource hog. It also loves to imbed itself in just about everything on my puter thus making it very difficult to delete some programs.

After reformating my old puter and NOT installing Norton I no longer have any of these problems. Plus, due to installing and using other programs I am now more secure than ever. At a much faster speed.

Just my humble two cents for what its worth.

Ken or others: how to uninstall Norton.

I have Norton Systemworks and so far so good. I wish I had known about the problems before purchasing and installing on my brand new computer. Particularly the difficulties in removing it.

I wonder if I will ever be able to uninstall it without calling the geek squad or paying to have it done. As a result, I am probably stuck with it. UNless someone can point me to a tutorial explaining how to remove it.

p.s. I will keep it for this subscription, but when it expires I would prefer to install AVG or Avast based on everything I have read, including these forums. Only concern is how to uninstall NAV Systemworks.

How does this solution compare.

I just printed out this document several weeks ago:

The one I supplied has you starting with Enable services on Windows startup.

I see you answered Marie s question with another document.

Which is the correct one to use to remove Norton Antivirus 2004. XP SP2 Home version.

I do have a previous version that will also have to be uninstalled but I do not know if it was 2002 or 2003 -any ideas as how to find out. I do not have any product keys which the document asks you to record but I do have my previous local vendor s Account ID. My vendor has pretty much closed the service to home users and I do not intend to hack his account for previous purchases or acct info type stuff. No, he doesn t want to talk to anybody who is not in a large company.we were a great starting platform

One more question, does either set of instructions remove quarantined files or log files and any other stuff Norton has installed or written without my knowledge.

Uninstalling Norton Systemworks

The pages on the Symantec help board are helful, but their remedies do not always work. I ve had Systemworks ever since Windows 3.1, and have found the other utilities in the suite helpful. Recently, the automatic updates have frequently not installed correctly, and I could get it working only by removing and reinstalling the whole suite.

Sometimes the uninstall didn t reomove all of the registry entries, and I had to edit the registry to remove all references to NAV and Symantec, and delete all the subdirectories before it would re-install.

Based on this discussion, I am going to try Avast.

This is an article I found some time back, hope it helps.

Before using the procedures in this document, read the following sections to determine whether there are any exceptions that apply to your situation.

If you have other Symantec products installed

When you have other Symantec products installed in addition to Norton SystemWorks and its component products, performing the following procedures may prevent those programs from functioning properly. This problem exists because many Symantec products share some of the same files and registry entries. Removing all files and entries for one product may result in removing files that are used by another product.

If another Symantec program does not run after following these instructions, then uninstall and reinstall that program.

When to remove all Symantec products

Remove all Symantec products in either of the following situations:

Do you mind giving me the link too. beggars should not be choosers.

Either way, thank you for taking the time to provide that. Much appreciated.

According to the link with regards to GoBack it should have come from symantec.com www.service1.symantec.com It has been quite a while since I downloaded so I am not sure.

Hope you have success on that site.

I used AVG initially and moved on to AVAST Pro. Norton s and McAfee both failed me over the years. Norton s also slowed my computer down. Avast is fast and uses few resources. Do this, try the free version and if you like it upgrade to the paid version. They are after all a money making company.

Im quite happy with AVG right now but might I ask why you switched to Avast and what they offer that is different.

Ken who is always looking for a better mouse trap

They also have an anti-virus, but I ve been useing Avast and don t want to change see my other post in this thread. So I ve had no direct experience with ZoneAlarm s anti-virus.

I would strongly recommend AVAST. Norton NO WAY.

I used to use many of the Norton products. When Peter Norton was the company his software worked great- no better, but after SYM. bought it out it went the way of all huge corporate beings. Support went from great to okay to really bad and the software became bloatware loaded with problems. NO Norton product will ever touch my computer again.

I have used AVAST for over a year and am extremally satisfied. I have purchased the Professional for several reasons--

1. Updates are pushed to your computer as soon as they are available. You get a little blue box in the right lower corner for about five sec telling you it has just updated which usually happens every two or three days that I m aware of-some may happen when I m away from the computer but sometimes more often. Of course, this really requires a always on cable or DSL connection.

2. The advanced interface give you more control over how and when scans are scheduled.

But definetly try the free home version and consider the PRO version if you need of it s features.

I have used Norton Utilities since the passing of CPM machines. In those days Norton was young and the only utility avaliable. Help from Norton was available, and it was a friendly piece of software. Since the advent of Norton suites to run under Windows format, I have found Norton to be flakey tend to crash programs as well as my PC, help available for an inflated price, if you could depend on it, antivirus updates available only on a subscription basis, and in general Norton developing a Microsoft attitude.

I switched to SystemSuite utilities which has the same but better operating utilities than Norton. Also SystemSuite has a scaled-down yet functional utility called PowerDesk which is a superior file handling program than Windows Explorer. I preferred PowerDesk over Windows explorer to the extent I purchased the full version of PowerDesk.

Vcom has bought SystemSuite but has not changed policies, which includes dependable help, free upgrades, and free Anti-virus upgrades.

I had an old trace route program 4 years old and suddenly avast said it had a virus. Contacted customer service and they replied within three hours. Requested to sent the infected file which I did and within 5 hours they said it was their mistake and it will be rectified in the next database which was released the next morning. Good or not.

It has the best anti-virus, the best internet security with parental control, the best system works that maintains the operating system at peak performance, and last but not least ghost which will make a perfect copy of your complete harddrive at 1GB/min whenever you decide you need a bigger drive. Try that with your freeware, spyware, underware, whateverware.

This guy must be an Sym. employee---

or hasn t used the products for a very long time.

All the things he likes can be done with freeware, spyware, underware, whateverware or products that are cheaper.

will this take care of the problem.

I ve been thinking about doing a system recovery since my teenagers moved out. will this take care of the problem so i can download free anti-virus. my Norton just expired and i was having trouble with it anyway. I have windows xp. also i am totally computer illiterate, so your help would be appreciated.

Sure, Norton Ghost makes quick backup files. But I recently had the experience of a hard disk crash. My Norton Ghost refused to install the backups, saying the files were corrupt. I now use Ghost with image verify on, which slows down the process a bit.

I haven t tried copying the files to DVD then back again to the computer to see if the files remain intact. I have switched to other backup programs as a result, in case Norton fails me again.

Norton Ghost not used as daily backup

I do not use ghost as a daily backup. I have 2 harddrives in slid-in trays. I use ghost to make a duplicate of the master drive onto the slave drive. Then I use second copy to keep all file changes made on the master updated every 10 minutes to the slave. It works automatically in the background. That allows me to swap the drives if the master fails in any way and instantly have a working drive with all software, files, email, desktop, everything just the way it was within 10 minutes of the failure. Later when I have time I repair the problem or just ghost the good backup drive onto the problem drive or onto a new bigger drive.

From what I have seen from using both, Norton uses much more memory and CPU than is really necessary, and is also very difficult to remove. It also tends to nag constantly when it is out of date or the subscription has expired. Avast, on the other hand, runs very discretely, and uses far fewer resources. The only major problem I noted with Avast Home Edition is its inability to perform full system scans automatically this must be done manually. Also, you have to renew the license every 14 months, but seeing as the license is FREE, this is not a major issue.