Norton Anti Virus, not the best after all?
I wonder, why is Norton Anti-Virus (NAV) so popular? Everytime we talk about anti-virus, or virus infection, people will ask, “Got Norton or not?? Use Norton repair lah….” (I was in this category few years ago). Not many people say, “Got Anti-Virus software or not?? Use it to repair lah….”
NAV really has a good name among people. It’s like as if NAV is the only Anti Virus around. But there’s acutally more, such as McAfee, Kaspersky, PC-Cillin and more.
Well, I’ve been using Kaspersky Personal since I formated my computer few weeks ago. Kaspersky Personal is good. Simple, have real-time scanner, scheduled scanning, and this is what most ordinary pc user like me would like. One thing i like the most about Kaspersky Personal, it’s not a resource hogger. Both kav.exe (application) and kavsvc.exe (services) takes about 3mb of your RAM when running in background. Nice huh? Compared to NAV 2005 which takes more than 10MB, I think. My friend complain because NAV2005 takes 25 MB when running in the background. This is no good for old pc user like me.
I’m not promoting Kaspersky, I don’t work for them. But I just want to say that there’s always alternatives and not only NAV works the best. Besides, this proves that NAV isn’t the best after all.
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November 12th, 2004 at 10:09 pm
i agree with you… the problem is that Norton have become synonymous with anti-virus, just like computers have become synonymous with Windows, office suite with MS Office, etc… it is the branding power that have overwrite the keywords… i use kaspersky too, and it is damn great…
November 12th, 2004 at 10:51 pm
Kaspersky Antivirus is currently known as the best antivirus software in the world, the only thing ppl don’t know about it becuz the company lacked advertisement and promotion… norton is good at that and so if mcafee..
i would list this in my way..
1) kaspersky
2) norton
3) mcafee
mcafee doesn’t have any special features that distinguish it between norton but i think a combination of both mcafee and norton is what makes kaspersky, only its much better…
November 14th, 2004 at 2:08 am
yeah i agree with you, kaspersky is the best AV software. NAV is still good, cos it’s paid software. Credits goes to me wuahhaha…