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Norton vs McAfee
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diogenes10
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My thought is that it depends on where you're using it.
If it's at work, go with what others are using-just to support the idea of standardization.
If it's at home, you might be better off with the avg product.
I have avg running at home on one computer that will not run the McAfee v5 I bought for it. I have McAfee v5 on another system.
I used McAfee v5 on my computer at work. It worked fine. I tried an upgrade to v6 and had some problems-I can't remember if it was the install or in feeling like the computer was running a lot slower-I uninstalled it, went back to v5 until the company switched everbody to Norton. I have been afraid to try McAfee v6 or 7 on anything else.
If it's at work, go with what others are using-just to support the idea of standardization.
If it's at home, you might be better off with the avg product.
I have avg running at home on one computer that will not run the McAfee v5 I bought for it. I have McAfee v5 on another system.
I used McAfee v5 on my computer at work. It worked fine. I tried an upgrade to v6 and had some problems-I can't remember if it was the install or in feeling like the computer was running a lot slower-I uninstalled it, went back to v5 until the company switched everbody to Norton. I have been afraid to try McAfee v6 or 7 on anything else.
I use mcafee VShield at work i have to admit that it loads the computer A LOT in some cases i have to wait for a few minutes just because on access scanner is enabled and the AV has to scan the file i m accessing. On the other hand if you disable it you might get infected. It happens when i try to open bsplayer to play avi files or with some executables like winrar. (I have a PIII 550MHZ 190MbRam)at work.
At home i have norton 2003 on a AMD XP 1700 with 512DDR and i m very satisfied. There was an issue after an update. the antinirus and the firewall took a few minutes to load but after 2-3 reboots the problem never occured again and i have seen it on various pc s not only mine.
At home i have norton 2003 on a AMD XP 1700 with 512DDR and i m very satisfied. There was an issue after an update. the antinirus and the firewall took a few minutes to load but after 2-3 reboots the problem never occured again and i have seen it on various pc s not only mine.
I use this at home and work. For home, it's free with free updates, and it works fine on both 98 and XP.
Sorry, meant to add this last line.
Look for AVG home.
Sorry, meant to add this last line.
Look for AVG home.
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