Norton Antivirus 2003 Open Beta!

[Uranium-235]

http://www.symantec.com/public_beta/

[Keefe]

I hate norton, it screws with your mail server settings. SPAMI have been using McAfee for a long time now and it seems to be working great. SPAMI have to admit that my favorite is Trend Micro's antivirus, but it is hella pricy.

[wizbones]

I used to feel the same way Keefe, but since the release of Norton 2002 I have made the switch and recommend Norton to everyone.

Norton acts as a gateway between your ISP and your email client. It does this for both incoming and outgoing mail.

Only trouble I've seen with this aspect is someone manually goofing up the config of their email client.

Although I like it I am not too hip on installing beta software on my work box. Thus the toybox for experimentation. Will check out the 2003 beta and check back with ya'll.

Oh ya and in my opinion McAfee has made it pretty difficult for the average Internet user to update their software and do simple cleaning tasks. Again just my opinion. I am sure others will beg to differ with me SPAM;D

Be cool.

[wizbones]

Downloaded the 35MB file ugh. Installed nicely, updated and off n runnin.

Don't see very much different from the 2002, but I'll keep my eye on it and let you know how it's a goin'

[chaplndave]

Downloaded the 35MB file ugh. Installed nicely, updated and off n runnin.

Don't see very much different from the 2002, but I'll keep my eye on it and let you know how it's a goin'

Hey wiz...I would be very interested in hearing the results of your "playing" with the new Norton beta. I have Norton System Works 2002 and it is working great on my machine. I have had some problems with my Oulook in MS Office XP Pro so I have gone to Eudora. Norton blends well with Eudora and like you said, it checks email both incoming and outgoing. Have caught several viruses before they infected my machine. Good on Norton!!! Let us know what you find out. Thanks

[wizbones]

Well, it's been 19 or so days and it's still trucking along nicely.

The auto updates etc have been great. I haven't had to mess with it at all other than clearing out the Quarinteen after an onslaught of W32.Klez.XX puppies get deleted (automatically I might ad)

I have to say I like the new version, requires very little to no attention from me and hasn't affected my systems performance at all.

Though I don't care the system works package. In my opinion it does slow your system down with all those programs constantly running in the background. I usually recommend to most of my clients to install just the anti-virus and skip the rest.

But everyone has their own preference and I say more power to you. If it works don't fix it!! :wavey:

[Uranium-235]

Neato! we have Virusscan v5 here and it effects system preformance quite a bit

[wizbones]

If you install Norton System Works it will affect your systems performance but thus far just running the anti-virus I've had zero trouble.

To give you an Idea of what I currently and more often than not always have running:

Windows 2000 Pro
AMD 800 MHz
700 + MB SDRAM
70GB Hard Drive

Currently open and running:

Outlook Express, Two SSH Sessions, Two Shoutcast Radio Broadcasts, 2 IE Sessions, QB, PSP 7, StarOffice which is what I'm posting now with, Seti@home, ECCP, Yahoo Messenger, WebTrends and I think that's about it. OH and of course Norton 2003 :rofl:

Isn't life grand? :D