Norton and version that comes with Pipex
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Norton and version that comes with Pipex
My ADSL connection to Pipex gave me a "free" copy of Norton Antivirus 2002 and a years worth of updates.
This runs out in 3 weeks.
It looks like Norton want 45 euros to upgrade to 2004, or £13 for another years subscription.
Is there anything to be gained by upgrading, or would be 45 euros be better spent elsewhere?
regards,
Greg
This runs out in 3 weeks.
It looks like Norton want 45 euros to upgrade to 2004, or £13 for another years subscription.
Is there anything to be gained by upgrading, or would be 45 euros be better spent elsewhere?
regards,
Greg
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www.avast.com has been recommended as free and good for non-commerical home users, anyone know anything about it?
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Greg mi old mate 
Don't do it!!!!!
I made the fatal mistake of upgrading to NAV/NIS 2004, rather than simply paying a fortune to subscribe to another years worth of LiveUpdates.
My original logic was that an upgrade would be only barely more expensive than renewing the subscription, but should provide a better product.
Unfortunately it didn't
My machine now regularly crashes and hangs. For a few months it tried to connect to the Internet at random intervals (until i found the reason deep on the support web-site).
When it crashed, log-files were cleared, and default sizes were reset
In the brand new product, certain "ad blocked" web-sites were actually set to "allow" - talk about product placement
So far i have downloaded (since October) well over 100MB of updates - bearing in mind that i am still on dial-up, this isn't too welcome.
Currently i cannot do LiveUpdates. The files download OK, but when they try to load it fails. As suggested by the support pages, i deleted temp files - it didn't work. I cleared out the download folder - it didn't work. I downloaded a multi-megabyte new version of LIVEUPDATE.EXE - it didn't work. I deleted a DLL to "fool" the new version of LIVEUPDATE to install - it didn't work. I am currently downloading yet another 3684.9KB of updates, and i will let you know how it goes.
However, i have beside me a full install version on McAffee Personal Firewall Plus 2004 and a copy of McAffee VirusScan2004, which will be installed this weekend, if Norton fails yet again. It was GBP39-99 from PC World for both.
Just under a meg to go...
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Don't do it!!!!!
I made the fatal mistake of upgrading to NAV/NIS 2004, rather than simply paying a fortune to subscribe to another years worth of LiveUpdates.
My original logic was that an upgrade would be only barely more expensive than renewing the subscription, but should provide a better product.
Unfortunately it didn't
My machine now regularly crashes and hangs. For a few months it tried to connect to the Internet at random intervals (until i found the reason deep on the support web-site).
When it crashed, log-files were cleared, and default sizes were reset
In the brand new product, certain "ad blocked" web-sites were actually set to "allow" - talk about product placement
So far i have downloaded (since October) well over 100MB of updates - bearing in mind that i am still on dial-up, this isn't too welcome.
Currently i cannot do LiveUpdates. The files download OK, but when they try to load it fails. As suggested by the support pages, i deleted temp files - it didn't work. I cleared out the download folder - it didn't work. I downloaded a multi-megabyte new version of LIVEUPDATE.EXE - it didn't work. I deleted a DLL to "fool" the new version of LIVEUPDATE to install - it didn't work. I am currently downloading yet another 3684.9KB of updates, and i will let you know how it goes.
However, i have beside me a full install version on McAffee Personal Firewall Plus 2004 and a copy of McAffee VirusScan2004, which will be installed this weekend, if Norton fails yet again. It was GBP39-99 from PC World for both.
Just under a meg to go...
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Well **** ME!!!
The LiveUpdate didn't actually fail this time, and i am now bang up-to-date. However, it is a bit of a shame that it took them TWO FECKING MONTHS (and a few tens of megs of downloads) to fix the problem, thus potentially exposing me to MyDoom and the like
Oh, and there is a pigging "Restart Required" dialog box now being displayed, with ONLY an "OK" button available - so i have no choice but to reboot (can't leave it until later).
Aaaaarrrrgggghhhh!!!
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The LiveUpdate didn't actually fail this time, and i am now bang up-to-date. However, it is a bit of a shame that it took them TWO FECKING MONTHS (and a few tens of megs of downloads) to fix the problem, thus potentially exposing me to MyDoom and the like
Oh, and there is a pigging "Restart Required" dialog box now being displayed, with ONLY an "OK" button available - so i have no choice but to reboot (can't leave it until later).
Aaaaarrrrgggghhhh!!!
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