i mean it scans and removes viruses from my computer I feel comfortable being able to download anything without worrying about have a virus on my computer
Most well known AV did its job.
I’ve used Norton for a year, but one year is enough for me to hate it. The whole package, with antivirus, VPN and cloud storage.
What I thought was an “install and forget” thing, became this annoying, slow, and resource hogging software. The pop out is not as bad as Avast/AVG group, but its quarantine and false positive is baaaaadd.
I think it’s really good if it’s for office laptops with limited use. But if you are anything a lil bit of IT person, it’s hell.
Go for lighter and less pop out AV, or just use windows defender if you’re the only who use your PC
Norton isn’t terrible. It’s just not the best. Compare the scores of Norton Antivirus with Kaspersky on AV Tests. You’ll find it’s not a true competition. Even Bitdefender struggles to compete with the big K.
Was happy with Norton over the past year but they then changed to a new UI where the default Quick Scan is now just a way to upsell you their cookie clearing crapware.
I didn’t renew.
Because people don’t realize how good Norton AV can be.
So here is my perspective as a Norton 360 paid-user for years.\
Back when “Anti Virus” and “Internet Security” are completely different package for every company. Look at how far we’ve come, we only call them just simply “AV”.
If you want an Anti-Virus, you assume most the time the file you are getting online is infected. It tried a lot of AV out there, Kaspersky, Bitdefender, McAfee… and do you know who stands out the most. Its Norton. I just keep on coming back using Norton, it’s a secret weapon for us against hackers with a powerful VPN for the whole subscription.
I am not saying that Kaspersky, Bitdefender or McAfee is bad… They are pretty good, but only next to Norton. A great AV should be able to stop what’s incoming, not after it came. What Norton does is give you details about everything; all of the connections are very transparent to the point you also have the power to allow/block these connections. And yes, what I’m telling you is those suspicious websites you visit with all phishing, malwares. hacking abilities it can be unmasked by Norton.
I have been using Norton for 7-10yrs. It is indeed the best AV for me, although I don’t really recommend their additional features and its full of crap. It’s not needed and but its avoidable, your choice.
On the other hand, Norton can control single file application connections with a lot of protocol settings. If you think it’s a false positive which happens most of the time, your choice to allow, quarantine, restore or delete. Good for computer enthusiast out there.
and their VPN now has now a kill switch and split tunnelling features. kudos to them for hearing us out “users”
Norton is not for everyone that’s why it sucks, it’s kind of hard to manipulate, a lot of settings, tantamount compared to other AV. But that is what makes it good. The settings you need when you surf the internet.
For advanced users, your ideal setup would be: An Edge/Chrome browser w/o VPN, and A Norton Private Browser w/ VPN. Yes! Norton has their own chromium-based browser optimized for VPN, lovely isnt it.
and the best thing is, they just keep updating us offering useful things. I just remembered that when their VPN came, it’s a total crap, usable but what a crap seriously. But today, all of my computers are using VPN kill switch & split tunneling. They must have heard us out for complaining.
PS: Did you know that Norton “Symantec” is one of the first to detect the Stuxnet virus alongside with Kaspersky, a cyberweapon intended to attack a nuclear lab/silo in the middle east. From the movie “Zero Day”… so yeah, those 2 are closest thing to be a contender of the best AV. If I were to pick AV aside from Norton, it’s going to be Kaspersky…
Good luck choosing AV, I hope this helps.
Bait used to be believable
You know that in order to put a virus in their database it must be found somewhere first right? If you freely download anything from the internet you have the very big chance to be the first victim of a new virus at some point.
Norton eats resources like Chris Christie eats burgers. If you want to slow your system with an anti-virus worse than malware then Norton is for you.
It doesn’t detect all viruses so pls don’t feel too comfortable as your PC might be infected without Norton informing you about it
It has some bad reputation
It misses viruses. It’s live scanning uses heavy resources. There’s also rumors of Norton installing viruses or giving false results that say you have viruses when you don’t after your subscription ends although I have never personally experienced that. it 100% does miss things that it should catch especially since it uses the same definitions as other programs that do catch the same thing
Hmm but why does Kaspersky have so high detection rates I’ll probably use it
Well you don’t need it in the database to detect and block it.
Os shit really wtf I thought it was like premium anti virus sigh I guess I need to be careful
Norton consistently has one of the highest detection rates in testing by AV-Comparatives.
I don’t know the answer to that question. However, I can say this. What does the data/research show? We can speculate on what we think is the best AV, or we can know what the best AV is by looking at empirical data. The data suggests it is consistently Kaspersky.
BitDefender and Kaspersky have the best detection rates. And they both have free versions.
tests only are not enough, even when they are independent. I’d base my judgement more on the user’s feedback. Also Norton is not alone at the top, I’d say Kaspersky Bitdefender ESET and malwarebytes have a bout the same detection rate or higher.
Maybe for their product, bad support and high price
Thanks man you helped me a lot