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From: emil_lam on 5 Jan 2010 02:05
Hi,

My computer have Symantec Norton Antivirus Corporate Version
10.1.4.400 & Symantec Client Firewall Version 8.7.4.79 installed. My
system administrator told me that Symantec's antivirus software were
among the worst commercial product in the market. Was my friend's
comment true(His company used F-Secure product)? How F-Secure
antivirus & internet security products compared to Symantec?

How Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition differs from other non-
Corporate Edition (e.g. Norton AntiVirus 2007,2008)?

Tks!
From: David H. Lipman on 5 Jan 2010 06:25
From: "emil_lam" <emil_lam(a)lycos.com>

| Hi,

| My computer have Symantec Norton Antivirus Corporate Version
| 10.1.4.400 & Symantec Client Firewall Version 8.7.4.79 installed. My
| system administrator told me that Symantec's antivirus software were
| among the worst commercial product in the market. Was my friend's
| comment true(His company used F-Secure product)? How F-Secure
| antivirus & internet security products compared to Symantec?

| How Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition differs from other non-
| Corporate Edition (e.g. Norton AntiVirus 2007,2008)?

| Tks!

He's right!

F-Secure is OK and hedges out Symantec.

Norton and Symantec are the same and it doesn't matter if it is corporate or retail, they
usethe same signatues.

However the GUI of non corporate versions tend to have the "bloat" problem.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


From: David H. Lipman on 5 Jan 2010 06:27
From: "emil_lam" <emil_lam(a)lycos.com>

| Hi,

| My computer have Symantec Norton Antivirus Corporate Version
| 10.1.4.400 & Symantec Client Firewall Version 8.7.4.79 installed. My
| system administrator told me that Symantec's antivirus software were
| among the worst commercial product in the market. Was my friend's
| comment true(His company used F-Secure product)? How F-Secure
| antivirus & internet security products compared to Symantec?

| How Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition differs from other non-
| Corporate Edition (e.g. Norton AntiVirus 2007,2008)?

| Tks!

BTW:
Why are you asking about Symantec AV in a Sophos news group ?

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


From: Little Charlie on 5 Jan 2010 10:07
On 1/5/2010 6:25 AM, David H. Lipman wrote:
> From: "emil_lam"<emil_lam(a)lycos.com>
>
> | Hi,
>
> | My computer have Symantec Norton Antivirus Corporate Version
> | 10.1.4.400& Symantec Client Firewall Version 8.7.4.79 installed. My
> | system administrator told me that Symantec's antivirus software were
> | among the worst commercial product in the market. Was my friend's
> | comment true(His company used F-Secure product)? How F-Secure
> | antivirus& internet security products compared to Symantec?
>
> | How Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition differs from other non-
> | Corporate Edition (e.g. Norton AntiVirus 2007,2008)?
>
> | Tks!
>
> He's right!
>
> F-Secure is OK and hedges out Symantec.
>
> Norton and Symantec are the same and it doesn't matter if it is corporate or retail, they
> usethe same signatues.
>
> However the GUI of non corporate versions tend to have the "bloat" problem.
>

David have you personally installed any NAV 2009 /2010 or NIS 2009 /
2010 products yourself? Every reviewer I have read -and- my own
experiences show the old tired "Norton is bloatware" (which is never
supported with data but just a shoot-from-the-hip 'parroting' much like
a Macaw) argument to be baseless since Symantec's 2009 product line
offering. So..have you tried them for yourself and haven't you read the
reviews and test data such as vbuletin and icsa? Been away for a few
years from this group David and smiled when I saw your posts and
chuckled at your same old worn-out regurgitated Norton-bashing
'promulgations'
From: David H. Lipman on 5 Jan 2010 10:55
From: "Little Charlie" <littlecharlie.blues(a)gmail.com>

| David have you personally installed any NAV 2009 /2010 or NIS 2009 /
| 2010 products yourself? Every reviewer I have read -and- my own
| experiences show the old tired "Norton is bloatware" (which is never
| supported with data but just a shoot-from-the-hip 'parroting' much like
| a Macaw) argument to be baseless since Symantec's 2009 product line
| offering. So..have you tried them for yourself and haven't you read the
| reviews and test data such as vbuletin and icsa? Been away for a few
| years from this group David and smiled when I saw your posts and
| chuckled at your same old worn-out regurgitated Norton-bashing
| 'promulgations'

People give me their PCs to clean. All various notebooks and desktops. Besides the
factor I got their PCs because they were infected, those with the various flavours
Norton/Symantec are noticibly hindered by the retail versions. You can see and feel the
OS sluggishness (this includs Norton 360). The sluggishness is not noted on the
enterprise versions. Albeit the versions with the Symantec FireWall can become
problematic.

Since their ability catch most malware is low, they get removed and replaced with Avira
AntiVir and MBAM.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp


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