The subscription on my norton security is about to run out but to renew my current product is going to cost £39.99. With money being tight I looked on ebay and can get norton internet security 2007 for a fraction of that price. My question is can I install this when I currently have norton 2008 and I have bought my daughter a refurbished laptop that needs security can I use if for it as well, or do I need to buy two items.
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1 jduck1979_16feb03 // Nov 22, 2008
You can get these for free…….. they’re just as good, but don’t hog your computer’s memory like Norton has a reputation for doing:
Avira Anti-VIR Personal Edition
http://www.free-av.com
Spybot: Search & Destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org
ZoneAlarm Firewall (Free edition) or Comodo Firewall
http://www.zonealarm.com/store/content/catalog/products/zonealarm_free_firewall.jsp
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/
Other (paid for) Internet Security suites, instead of Norton (which as I said, is a memory / resource hog) try either of these 2 which came top in the last WHICH? magazine test of these products I read:
http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-gb/zonealarm-computer-security-suite.htm
http://shop.ca.com/malware/internet_security_suite.aspx
ZoneAlarm costs £39.95, and you’re allowed to install it on up to 3 PC’s, while the Computer Associates (CA) costs the equivalent of £54, but allows you to install on up to 5 PCs
2 hitman // Nov 22, 2008
I suggest you to download the file from
Google Pack
http://pack.google.com/
They will give u a free version of the Norton Internet Security
3 Koos N // Nov 22, 2008
What I would do is uninstall Norton and do not renew the license. Norton is not that good and there are very good free programs. Here is a combination of a couple of anti virus programs and a couple of very good anti spyware programs.
To uninstall Norton you might need this
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039?Open&docid=2007082908475279&nsf=norton2008.nsf&view=docid&seg=hm&lg=nl&ct=nl
Because free programs are never completely as secure as the programs you are paying for I always recommend to install a combination of programs.
AVG free
http://free.avg.com/
or
Avast free
http://www.download.com/Avast-Home-Edition/3000-2239_4-10019223.html
Then I would install as extra protection, Threatfire
Threatfire is an anti virus, that can be installed next to any other anti virus program on the same computer
http://www.threatfire.com/
There is a lot of mal ware you have to protect your pc against.
This is a very good program, that completely runs in the background
http://www.comodo.com/boclean/boclean.html
You need also a good firewall
Zone Alarm Firewall
http://www.download.com/ZoneAlarm-Firewall-Windows-2000-XP-/3000-10435_4-10039884.html
Anti spyware
http://www.spywareterminator.com/
http://www.download.com/SUPERAntiSpyware-Free-Edition/3000-8022_4-10523889.html
http://en.kioskea.net/telecharger/telecharger-105-malwarebytes-anti-malware
4 siraj // Dec 11, 2008
my norton internet security is expiring in 18 days and its telling me to subscribe to an upgrade and renew it. but can i renew the program without paying. i tried downloading a copy of it from cnet.com but thats still a trial version.
could you please suggest what i can i do before my laptop gets viruses
thank you
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