The Norton on my Dell

[BCWolfen]

We've been VERY disapointed with Norton 2k4 and 2k5 to the point that we've stopped selling it. We have been running and selling Panda Titanium for over a year now with very few problems. It is a far smaller package than Norton, updates more frequently and finds more virii. Extremly pleased with the product. The new 2k5 comes with adware scans and a firewall. Don't bother installing the firewall. Any 3rd party firewalls tend to have issues if the XP firewall is running. Also any software firewall can be hacked by any 15 yr old kid by downloading tools off the internet. If you want firewall, buy a router. They are cheap and 1000% more effective than any software firewall will ever be, and they do not use any system resources.

If your cheap, I agree that AVG is good. But you get what you pay for. The free versions are usually further behind in their updates than the corpprate guys.

Norton says it will have a fix for any new virus within 3 days. Their live update file is usually only updated every Tuesday. You can go and manually grab the new definitions. The nice thing about Panda is, they guarantee a fix within 3 hours of discovering a new virus and their definitions are updated immediately. There have been many days where I have seen my Panda notice pop up 3-8 times over the course of a day with 3-20 new virus definitions each time. We're quite impressed.

There is an issue with Panda 2k5 and AMD 64's but the patch to correct it is available on their website.

If you would like to check out your system with their free online scan (which last time I checked was still removing found virii at no cost) go to
www.pandasoftware.com

Hope that helps.