Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition any good?

nikeman · 04-19-2008, 01:22 AM

My school is offering this antivirus software free for all students but I am not sure how good it is. I currently use avast! security and have been pretty happy with it so far. Please let me know, thanks!

falco216 · 04-19-2008, 04:55 AM

In my opinion (And many others) Avast! is much better.

mommabear · 04-19-2008, 06:20 AM

imho, anything is better. Just go read their website (and various forums) about the problems that can happen just trying to completely get rid of it if you decide you don't like it or have problems.

saturn_5 · 04-19-2008, 06:22 AM

Listen to Falco216!!!!

**sobeit** · 04-19-2008, 06:24 AM

Nothing wrong with giving it a try and see if it meets your needs. Free software is great but they do have their limitations. One thing to consider, since this copy is free, will there be a yearly subscription fee after this year?

saturn_5 · 04-19-2008, 06:25 AM

Use Mcafee or Norton if you want your computer to run at 1/4 of the speed you have now. They both have abot 10 processor intensive programs running in the background.

**sobeit** · 04-19-2008, 06:30 AM

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Originally Posted by saturn_5

Use Mcafee or Norton if you want your computer to run at 1/4 of the speed you have now. They both have abot 10 processor intensive programs running in the background.

actually not entirely true with the newer releases of nortons. Even firefox2 uses more than nortons because of its memory leakage. One thing to consider full service antivirus utlities will use more than the free stuff because it checks and does more.

My current system is running nortons and here is no noticeable speed difference between it and avast.

**TheShadowFl** · 04-19-2008, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by saturn_5

Use McAfee or Norton if you want your computer to run at 1/4 of the speed you have now. They both have about 10 processor intensive programs running in the background.

As a 'still working tech' I run into either Norton AV or McAfee AV on a weekly if not daily basis. Both get the axe, because they are both way too big and DO slow down a PC. By just what extent, depends a lot on the CPU speed, amount of ram and type of HD (IDE or SATA2).

If you have a super fast CPU, 2 gigs or more of ram and a SATA2 HD, you may not notice the loss of CPU cycles or amount or ram your system is giving up to the programs. (see the above quote)

On less powerful systems, using either of the mentioned programs is like hauling two tons of lead around in your 1/4 ton pickup. It may still be drivable but performance will suffer greatly.

Just yesterday, I removed Norton AV from a ladies PC. It was a 4 yr. old Dell, with a not-too-fast CPU, 512megs of ram and an IDE HD, running Windows XP/SP2. Her subscription to Norton was about to run out and they wanted to charge her something like $79 to renew. She was more than willing for me to remove Norton and replace it with AVG 7.5 FREE (my own personal favorite AV package).

With some further tweaking and cleaning, her little underpowered PC was soon running and responding twice as fast as before.

She was delighted!

After doing the Un-Install of Norton, I did run the latest version of the "Norton Removal Tool".
I still had to manually delete some folders.

So, bottom line, if it's FREE you're looking for and you want to keep your system running like a real computer, then skip Norton and go right for one of the afore-mentioned FREE AV programs.
(AVG 7.5 FREE or Avast)
God, I do love FREE!

Good Luck and Happy Computing,
The Shadow

04-19-2008, 01:22 AM	#1 (permalink)
nikeman Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 360 OS: Win XP	Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition any good? My school is offering this antivirus software free for all students but I am not sure how good it is. I currently use avast! security and have been pretty happy with it so far. Please let me know, thanks!

04-19-2008, 04:55 AM	#2 (permalink)
falco216 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 19 OS: Windows XP professional sevice pack 3	Re: Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition any good? In my opinion (And many others) Avast! is much better.

04-19-2008, 06:20 AM	#3 (permalink)
mommabear Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 415 OS: XP Home Sp2	Re: Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition any good? imho, anything is better. Just go read their website (and various forums) about the problems that can happen just trying to completely get rid of it if you decide you don't like it or have problems.

04-19-2008, 06:22 AM	#4 (permalink)
saturn_5 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 203 OS: Vista 64	Re: Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition any good? Listen to Falco216!!!!

04-19-2008, 06:24 AM	#5 (permalink)
sobeit TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NEAR Posts: 7,433 OS: windows/linux	Re: Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition any good? Nothing wrong with giving it a try and see if it meets your needs. Free software is great but they do have their limitations. One thing to consider, since this copy is free, will there be a yearly subscription fee after this year? __________________ there's been global warming since the ice age Last edited by sobeit; 04-19-2008 at 06:27 AM.

04-19-2008, 06:25 AM	#6 (permalink)
saturn_5 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 203 OS: Vista 64	Re: Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition any good? Use Mcafee or Norton if you want your computer to run at 1/4 of the speed you have now. They both have abot 10 processor intensive programs running in the background.