Symantec vs. AVG

Dell Dim 2400 with XP Home

I currently have AVG. We were just notified at work that we are authorized
to use Symantec AntiVirus free-of-charge on our home computers.

So, which is better?? Could I keep BOTH on?

MB

Use one or the other, but not both. I would assume that the Symantec AntiVirus
is a corporate version which requires virus updates to be done via the corporate
server, if I recall correctly. No big deal here, just a heads-up on how it
works. One must hope that Symantec provides a higher level of AV support for
the bucks charged to a corporate licensee... Ben Myers

On , "MB_" wrote:

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Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 11:32:18 -0500
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Dell Dim 2400 with XP Home

I currently have AVG. We were just notified at work that we are authorized
to use Symantec AntiVirus free-of-charge on our home computers.

So, which is better?? Could I keep BOTH on?

MB

In article , ben_myers_spam_me_not @
charter.net (Ben Myers) says...
Use one or the other, but not both. I would assume that the Symantec AntiVirus
is a corporate version which requires virus updates to be done via the corporate
server, if I recall correctly. No big deal here, just a heads-up on how it
works. One must hope that Symantec provides a higher level of AV support for
the bucks charged to a corporate licensee... Ben Myers

Snip

I run Symantec Corporate v9.x and you can do a live update if the
corporate administrator does not lock that feature. I would guess that
they would just give you a disk to take home and install. The corporate
version doesn't require the use of a key as well. I also use AVG Pro
and it does not appear to be as resourse intensive as Norton.

Funny that you mention the fact not to run both. I have had a PC since
1985 and back when AV first started they recommended to run a couple of
them due to the fact that one would catch some that the other wouldn't
and vice versa.

My how times have changed.

AV software sometimes gets in the way of other activities, especially software
installs. It does not take a great leap of imagination to think of one AV
package complicating life for another, not to mention the life of the computer
owner... Ben Myers

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 13:54:00 -0500, Robin Brumfield
wrote:

In article , ben_myers_spam_me_not @
charter.net (Ben Myers) says...
Use one or the other, but not both. I would assume that the Symantec AntiVirus
is a corporate version which requires virus updates to be done via the corporate
server, if I recall correctly. No big deal here, just a heads-up on how it
works. One must hope that Symantec provides a higher level of AV support for
the bucks charged to a corporate licensee... Ben Myers

Snip

I run Symantec Corporate v9.x and you can do a live update if the
corporate administrator does not lock that feature. I would guess that
they would just give you a disk to take home and install. The corporate
version doesn't require the use of a key as well. I also use AVG Pro
and it does not appear to be as resourse intensive as Norton.

Funny that you mention the fact not to run both. I have had a PC since
1985 and back when AV first started they recommended to run a couple of
them due to the fact that one would catch some that the other wouldn't
and vice versa.

My how times have changed.

Ben et. al:

Well, having just gotten a backdoor.Trojan despite what I thought was "safe
hex," I'm a little leery of things now.

As I understand it, from work they will lend me a CD and I can install it on
my home computer. I assume this means I can get the updates.

Question: Is Symantec AV the same as Norton AV??? I know that Norton causes
resource problems in a lot of situations.

My thinking is to keep AVG active (eg: continually monitoring emails, etc.)
but I can run AVG and Symantec to do my scans. Is that being overly
cautious? Or worse, is that kind of set-up asking for trouble (ie: would one
AV interfere with the other under those circumstances)?

Mel



ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
...
AV software sometimes gets in the way of other activities, especially
software
installs. It does not take a great leap of imagination to think of one AV
package complicating life for another, not to mention the life of the
computer
owner... Ben Myers

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 13:54:00 -0500, Robin Brumfield

wrote:

In article , ben_myers_spam_me_not @
charter.net (Ben Myers) says...
Use one or the other, but not both. I would assume that the Symantec
AntiVirus
is a corporate version which requires virus updates to be done via the
corporate
server, if I recall correctly. No big deal here, just a heads-up on how
it
works. One must hope that Symantec provides a higher level of AV
support for
the bucks charged to a corporate licensee... Ben Myers

Snip

I run Symantec Corporate v9.x and you can do a live update if the
corporate administrator does not lock that feature. I would guess that
they would just give you a disk to take home and install. The corporate
version doesn't require the use of a key as well. I also use AVG Pro
and it does not appear to be as resourse intensive as Norton.

Funny that you mention the fact not to run both. I have had a PC since
1985 and back when AV first started they recommended to run a couple of
them due to the fact that one would catch some that the other wouldn't
and vice versa.

My how times have changed.

After having Symantec/Norton drive me insane on my previous Dell, I
made sure to NOT install it on my current home Dell.

Resource intensive and then it would not let me delete it. Currently
run Symantec corporate at the office where I admit it seems to work
fine. But at home I use AVAST.

In article ,
says...
Dell Dim 2400 with XP Home

I currently have AVG. We were just notified at work that we are authorized
to use Symantec AntiVirus free-of-charge on our home computers.

So, which is better?? Could I keep BOTH on?

I had been a VERY LOYAL Norton Anti-Virus user for years and would swear
by it. But I recently ran into a problem that forced me to dump it (a
problem that effects less than 1% of users).

The SYM EVENT driver can randomly reboot your computer if you have more
than 1 gigabyte of system memory and the software program you are
running is allocating memory blocks larger than 1 gigabyte.

I do a LOT of video encoding and I bought a program called DVD Lab to
create home DVDs. I have 4 gigabytes of RAM in my computer and DVD Lab
was using as much as it could to speed up processing. And occasionally
the system would reboot. It drove me nuts.

The blue screen notes indicated that it was a hardware problem, but
after a lot of googling, I tracked it down to this bizarre problem with
SYM EVENT in NAV. I uninstalled NAV and the problem went away.

I'm now using AVG. I'm not as happy with AVG (mostly because I'm not
used to it, I suspect), but at least my computer doesn't reboot.

If and when Symantec fixes the problem with SYM EVENT, I plan to go
back.

If you are a member of the University of Maine system than we are offering
you Symantic Anti Virus Corp. Edition which is very very effective. And no
you don't have to get your updates from our servers. Only on campus people
have to do that. If you live on campus we push out updates twice per day.
If you are off campus and install the product you would get your updates by
using the live update feature.


ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
...
Use one or the other, but not both. I would assume that the Symantec
AntiVirus
is a corporate version which requires virus updates to be done via the
corporate
server, if I recall correctly. No big deal here, just a heads-up on how
it
works. One must hope that Symantec provides a higher level of AV support
for
the bucks charged to a corporate licensee... Ben Myers

On , "MB_" wrote:

NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 09:42:59 MST
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 11:32:18 -0500
Xref: Hurricane-Charley alt.sys.pc-clone.dell:25361

Dell Dim 2400 with XP Home

I currently have AVG. We were just notified at work that we are authorized
to use Symantec AntiVirus free-of-charge on our home computers.

So, which is better?? Could I keep BOTH on?

MB

In article ,
says...
Ben et. al:

Well, having just gotten a backdoor.Trojan despite what I thought was "safe
hex," I'm a little leery of things now.

As I understand it, from work they will lend me a CD and I can install it on
my home computer. I assume this means I can get the updates.

Question: Is Symantec AV the same as Norton AV??? I know that Norton causes
resource problems in a lot of situations.

My thinking is to keep AVG active (eg: continually monitoring emails, etc.)
but I can run AVG and Symantec to do my scans. Is that being overly
cautious? Or worse, is that kind of set-up asking for trouble (ie: would one
AV interfere with the other under those circumstances)?

Mel



Yes Symantec acquired Norton several years ago and they are the same
product now as far as the AV software goes. You should be able to get
the updates. I know that I can with my installation. As Ben Myers noted
in another post, the installation of AVG and Norton may cause you alot
of grief. It has been many years since I saw a recommendation to run
duplicate AV software. If you have Norton Ghost or some similar disk
image software and an external hard drive, you could ghost your drive
and try it. If it pukes just lay your image back like it was and go
with one or the other. I have Norton at work, AVG on one laptop and F-
Prot, supplied by Charter cable, on the other laptop and have never had
a virus to date (Knock on wood;-). I always practice safe computing
though...hate the web and generally never visit web sites unless doing
research at specific vendors of hardware/software; never open an email
attachment from unknown sources; run spam protection and just dump those
emails; etc.; etc.

See this hobby used to be fun when the Internet and computers were new
but now, they both are a lot of work to keep from getting clobbered.
When I retire, I may get all my assets converted to cash and stuff it
under a mattress and then retreat from the world of technology...:-))

In article ,
says...
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 13:54:00 -0500, in
, Robin Brumfield
wrote:

In article , ben_myers_spam_me_not @
charter.net (Ben Myers) says...
Use one or the other, but not both. I would assume that the Symantec AntiVirus
is a corporate version which requires virus updates to be done via the corporate
server, if I recall correctly. No big deal here, just a heads-up on how it
works. One must hope that Symantec provides a higher level of AV support for
the bucks charged to a corporate licensee... Ben Myers

Snip

I run Symantec Corporate v9.x and you can do a live update if the
corporate administrator does not lock that feature. I would guess that
they would just give you a disk to take home and install. The corporate
version doesn't require the use of a key as well. I also use AVG Pro
and it does not appear to be as resourse intensive as Norton.

Funny that you mention the fact not to run both. I have had a PC since
1985 and back when AV first started they recommended to run a couple of
them due to the fact that one would catch some that the other wouldn't
and vice versa.

My how times have changed.

Yes... but as I recall, back in 1985 AV programs weren't run
constantly in the background.


Those were the DOS days in 1985 and AV wasn't even a happening thing
until about 1994 or so when Windows 3.x first hit the market. I never
dabbled with Windows 1.x/2.x since it was such an unstable system. I
used OS/2 during the time between Windows 1.x/2.x and Windows 3.x.

Anyone remember Mosaic?