Norton AntiVirus 2004 (OEM version)

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sktn77a · #1 Post by **sktn77a** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 6:46 am

This software came preloaded on my new T42. Does anybody know if it's the 90 day version (like 2003 was on the T40 and T41) or does it come with a full year's subscription?

Thanks

G-Man · #2 Post by **G-Man** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 7:16 am

As far as I know it's a full year.

Regards,
G-Man

n3il · #3 Post by **n3il** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 8:57 am

I think it is 90 days...

The "free upgrade" version avail from the IBM website certainly is, as were (as you stated) the previous preloaded versions...

HTH

notebooknewbie · #4 Post by **notebooknewbie** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 2:19 pm

Yup, its 90-days...I asked about this specifically and was told 90 days (don't know if there would be any difference between Canada and the U.S. though, since I'm from Canada)

doylnea · #5 Post by **doylnea** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 3:24 pm

I got NAV 2003 90 day on my T41 DKU that I bought about 2 weeks ago. I've since replaced it with NAV Corporate, but I was a) surprised that it was 90 day version and b) 2003.

#6 Post by **carbon_unit** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 4:05 pm

Just go download some AVG (free) or Trend Micro (trial version).
Don't forget to do a Housecall occasionally to catch the stuff others miss.
Norton is too much of a resource hog and doesn't do all that great of a job anymore. At one time Norton was king of the hill, that time has passed. It is time to move on.

#7 Post by **JHEM** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 8:22 pm

FWIW and simply to add my $.02 to Carbon Unit's post, I won't use anything from Norton on any of my systems. Haven't for years.

Regards,

James

MadeInJapan · #8 Post by **MadeInJapan** » Fri Aug 27, 2004 11:21 pm

I'm using Norton 2004, corporate version....very fast updates and quick install...not a resource hog either. Seems to do it's job very efficiently. Why the regular version can't be this way, I don't know.

hausman · #9 Post by **hausman** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:31 am

I wonder how many of the people who experience performance degradation with NAV have Auto-Protect enabled? This feature has been a resource hog, at least in earlier versions. It can also interfere with other programs.

First thing I do after installing NAV is to disable Auto-Protect.

jsmit86 · #10 Post by **jsmit86** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 11:32 am

JHEM wrote:FWIW and simply to add my $.02 to Carbon Unit's post, I won't use anything from Norton on any of my systems. Haven't for years.

Regards,

James

JHEM -
what are you using?

#11 Post by **JHEM** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:14 pm

jsmit86 wrote:JHEM - what are you using?

Sophos to keep commonality with a primary client and McAfee when Sophos isn't required.

Nothing very esoteric, but conversely utterly reliable IMHO.

Regards,

James

jsmit86 · #12 Post by **jsmit86** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:37 pm

Any opinions on AVG or AVAST?

stgreek · #13 Post by **stgreek** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 7:52 pm

Another vote for Norton Corporate editions. NAV Corporate is lightning fast compared to personal edition, and it easily beats avg too. Firewall doesn't make that much difference (Personal firewall is not nearly as bad as NAV) but still it is clean and fast. The Personal editions however are laughable.

jsmit86 · #14 Post by **jsmit86** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 7:27 pm

I just got a thumbs up in AVG from my brother who works in IT for a large corporation. He has used it extensively, with good success.

My Norton was nagging me to renew. So.. I uninstalled Norton OEM, and installed AVG Free edition.

Wow! I cannot believe how much faster things are!

So far... so good.

Chun-Yu · #15 Post by **Chun-Yu** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 8:02 pm

Wow, I can't believe how fast my ThinkPad is running no AV or firewall!

#16 Post by **carbon_unit** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 8:07 pm

It won't take very long running like that to get enough spyware/viruses to slow you back down.

#17 Post by **JHEM** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 8:10 pm

jsmit86 wrote:Any opinions on AVG or AVAST?

They're both excellent, AVG in particular. I'd probably use AVG if I had to pay for my McAfee subscription myself.

Regards,

James

Chun-Yu · #18 Post by **Chun-Yu** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 8:14 pm

Who said I was running one of those silly operating systems that get spyware/viruses?

I do have NAV Corporate Edition in Windows XP, but I hardly ever use it. Last time I started XP to do a BIOS update, I had 5 MB of virus definition updates to install, hehe.

AtmosMan · #19 Post by **AtmosMan** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 8:58 pm

I have heard many good things about the corporate edition, but I have also heard it is hard to get your hands on. My next thinkpad (the alviso/sonoma version) needs to be as fast as possilbe with as little resourse hogs running as possible. I am really interested in getting corporate edition, if possible. How did everyone here get the corporate edition?

#20 Post by **carbon_unit** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 10:24 pm

Chun-Yu wrote:Who said I was running one of those silly operating systems that get spyware/viruses?

Hehe, I second that notion!

stgreek · #21 Post by **stgreek** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:36 am

carbon_unit wrote:
Chun-Yu wrote:Who said I was running one of those silly operating systems that get spyware/viruses?
Hehe, I second that notion!

Yup..Windows is only for games/animation here... Linux takes care of the rest, and it does a darn fine job too.

Chun-Yu · #22 Post by **Chun-Yu** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:17 am

I got it from my university, which has a site license (that's where I got all of my MS software too).

#23 Post by **jdhurst** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 11:46 am

I got Symantec Client Security 1.1 plus the maintenance plan from the Vendor who sold me the T41. I was able to download Symantec Client Security 2.0 as part of the maintenance plan and have it running now. Works great. ... JDHurst

eliu · #24 Post by **eliu** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 2:32 pm

MadeInJapan wrote:I'm using Norton 2004, corporate version....very fast updates and quick install...not a resource hog either. Seems to do it's job very efficiently. Why the regular version can't be this way, I don't know.

Where can I get the corporate edition?

nsuperman86 · #25 Post by **nsuperman86** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:06 pm

While on the topic of comupter protection, what spyware removal software do es everyone use?

I am currently running AdAware SP Personal, but I don't like it nearly as much as AdAware 6. I keep hearing of better spyware software, any recs.?

#26 Post by **carbon_unit** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:17 pm

Try some Spybot search and destroy and as a last resort try some hijackthis but be careful with hijackthis, it is very powerful and will allow you to break lots of things. Only throw away things you know are spyware.

Be Careful! You have been warned.

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