Norton Security Premium 12 months for 5 Devices - compatible with Mac, PC, Android and iOS devices.
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Are third-party AVs still a thing? Why not just stick with Windows Defender?
Because most tests consider it a baseline product, and nearly every other antivirus will beat it.
What tests? And in which ways?
AVLabs rank it worst for protection for Windows 7 and 8, and equal worst for Windows 10 (it beats Quick Heal for Windows 10 purely because it has less of an impact on performance).
In the most recent AVComparatives real world test, Defender scored the lowest protection score of 94.4%, in a test where more than half of the products got 98% or higher.
Dennis Technology Labs rank it equal second last with an overall accuracy score of 94%, tied with Trend Micro and beating only Bullguard.
Virus Bulletin are more optimistic and give System Centre Endpoint Protection (literally Essentials but designed for enterprises with management functionality etc.) a Passed grade, but it was the lowest scoring product I've actually heard of on their list.
PC Mag give it 2.5 out of 5 essentially noting that it's there and it does have some effectiveness, but you'd be better off with many other products.
While in most cases it is roughly ~5% less effective than third-party anti-virus software, I've been using it for a decade and never had a virus or malware 'attack'.
Norton and other similar applications are a burden on your system as they are constantly impacting processor/memory utilisation.
I don't get the whole "it is a burden on resources" argument. Norton of old was especially resource hungry, but it's not now. Case in point: right now, it consists of two executables (one of which is a service) and is using 19MB RAM, no CPU time and no disk traffic according to Task Manager. Given that I have 8GB RAM, and I am honestly not missing the 0.002% of it that it's using.
Now, when I'm not using the computer, these numbers will probably increase because it uses idle time to run scans etc., which I'm fine with - If I'm not using the PC it can have all the resources it wants.
Similarly, Eset on my mother's computer also used a similar amount of resources - I don't have it to hand to check the preceise figure but it had no noticeable impact on performance. However, it was a little less well behaved when it came to idle time scanning, it just did scans whenever it wanted to, something that may be fixed in newer versions of Eset (she still had Antivirus 8 because I never bothered to install a newer version).
The only one that I have seen in recent years go truly bezerk and eat a substantial amount of resources was Kaspersky Endpoint Security, which inexplicably idled with ~250MB RAM in its main process.
I guess it depends on the product you have, but I know for a fact that Norton that is pre-loaded onto 98% of devices sold by electronic retailers are more of a virus than it's claimed title.
Norton outperforms Eset's offerings in independent AV testing.
Don't waste your money…
Use a free one and don't open email links or visit dodgy sites…
Keyloggers are everywhere and is not easily detectable, paid anti-virus such as ESET NOD32 offers a place where you can do your banking that protects you from those type of things. USB ports are a way for them to get access to your PC, whether your friend initially had one and they connected their phone to your PC or someone wanted to insert their USB into your PC.
Easy done, just don't let friends use or connect dodgy flash drives to your device.
I miss the days of Dick Smith bundling some of those decent quality powerboards with Norton.
Am I the only one that feels nostalgic about IT in the 90's whenever I see any Norton ad, regardless of how new the version is?
Norton or Symantec only make me feel ill. The time spend with the wonderful utils in the DOS days is outweighed by the bad time I spent with the AV.
Missing those days when Norton paid us (after cash back) to use it…
is Norton still a thing? Eset NOD32 is where it's at.