NAV 2005 or NOD32?

[Brayne Ded]

I presently running MacAfee anti-virus (V6) and have decided to upgrade,
either to NAV 2005 or NOD32. Reading the blurb at the NOD32 site (
http://www.nod32uk.com/home/home.htm ) it looks like NOD32 is a more
powerful product, but I can seem to find any reviews that compare the two
programs specifically.

Are there any experienced users here who can advise me which one to got for,
or perhaps point me to a resource with more detailed comparisons of the two
products?

Mike.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Brayne Ded" <[email protected]>

| I presently running MacAfee anti-virus (V6) and have decided to upgrade,
| either to NAV 2005 or NOD32. Reading the blurb at the NOD32 site (
| http://www.nod32uk.com/home/home.htm ) it looks like NOD32 is a more
| powerful product, but I can seem to find any reviews that compare the two
| programs specifically.
|
| Are there any experienced users here who can advise me which one to got for,
| or perhaps point me to a resource with more detailed comparisons of the two
| products?
|
| Mike.
|

NOD32. There is NO comparison needed.

 

[Richard Steinfeld]

From: "Brayne Ded" <[email protected]>

| I presently running MacAfee anti-virus (V6) and have decided to upgrade,
| either to NAV 2005 or NOD32. Reading the blurb at the NOD32 site (
| http://www.nod32uk.com/home/home.htm ) it looks like NOD32 is a more
| powerful product, but I can seem to find any reviews that compare the two
| programs specifically.
|
| Are there any experienced users here who can advise me which one to got for,
| or perhaps point me to a resource with more detailed comparisons of the two
| products?
|
| Mike.
|

NOD32. There is NO comparison needed.

My experience with Symantec has been that it's great to buy their
products if you enjoy, when you need support, slogging through mindless
faqs that impede your getting through (by email-only -- no telephone
calls, please!) and once having gotten past the faqs, hurling yourself
over and over and over by email, then finally actually getting a reply
that's boilerplate and irrelevant to your problem. And then you respond
within a little window amidst a barrage of advertising copy. And they
respond again with irrelevant boilerplate, and around and around you go
wasting your time. However, you'll receive a lot of email advertising
from them and maybe that will make you feel good.

Other than that, people seem to like it. In my own case, hell will
freeze before they ever get another dime from me. Ditto for Intuit.

Richard

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Richard Steinfeld" <[email protected]>


| My experience with Symantec has been that it's great to buy their
| products if you enjoy, when you need support, slogging through mindless
| faqs that impede your getting through (by email-only -- no telephone
| calls, please!) and once having gotten past the faqs, hurling yourself
| over and over and over by email, then finally actually getting a reply
| that's boilerplate and irrelevant to your problem. And then you respond
| within a little window amidst a barrage of advertising copy. And they
| respond again with irrelevant boilerplate, and around and around you go
| wasting your time. However, you'll receive a lot of email advertising
| from them and maybe that will make you feel good.
|
| Other than that, people seem to like it. In my own case, hell will
| freeze before they ever get another dime from me. Ditto for Intuit.
|
| Richard

Symantec/Norton Ghost is the only product I swear by and not swear at. Symantec has an
atrocious business model in place.

NOD32 is a highly effective and light AV application (as compared with NAV/SAV) and although
I prefer McAfee Enterprise AV solutions (which BTW blows away their retail software), NODS32
gets my vote.

 

[ng-user]

by FAR: nod32
i stayed with norton long till the day i was introduced to nod32, it. put
your pc to a much better level of virus protection its amazing.

 

[* * Chas]

<snip>

Save money, time and HDD space - NOD32

 

[Brayne Ded]

<snip>

Save money, time and HDD space - NOD32

Thanks for the no-nonesense advice folks

I've installed NOD32 now and I have one question. It doesn't seem to put an
icon into the taskbar tray (as did Macafee) to show it's running on Windows
startup, that is a bit disconcerting. Is there an option to do this?

Mike.

 

[Duane Arnold]

Thanks for the no-nonesense advice folks

I've installed NOD32 now and I have one question. It doesn't seem to put
an icon into the taskbar tray (as did Macafee) to show it's running on
Windows
startup, that is a bit disconcerting. Is there an option to do this?

Mike.

If it's an NT based O/S such as Win 2K or XP, then it's a hit or miss
situation as to any icon showing in the job trey. I have SQL server running
on my laptop along with other icons including NOD32 and sometimes they will
all show and some times some of them will show in the job trey. It did it
when the machine was Win 2K and now XP pro. You can always check the Task
Manager and Services to see if an application is running. If you're hard
pressed to have the icon show-up, I found that if you use msconfig and
check off and check on the application that's not showing in the job trey
with its icon, that will make it show *most* of the time on a reboot.

It needs to be fixed. It is ridiculous.

Duane

 

[FredW]

After serious thinking Brayne Ded wrote :

Thanks for the no-nonsense advice folks

I've installed NOD32 now .........

To "fine tune" your NOD32, have a look at:
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=37509

 

[Joan Archer]

I would go with NOD32, I had no problems with the icon in the notification
area, although it is quite often hidden but when an update comes in the
icon is brought back into view for a time.
Joan

 

[Mike Gasson]

If it's an NT based O/S such as Win 2K or XP, then it's a hit or miss
situation as to any icon showing in the job trey. I have SQL server running
on my laptop along with other icons including NOD32 and sometimes they will
all show and some times some of them will show in the job trey. It did it
when the machine was Win 2K and now XP pro. You can always check the Task
Manager and Services to see if an application is running. If you're hard
pressed to have the icon show-up, I found that if you use msconfig and
check off and check on the application that's not showing in the job trey
with its icon, that will make it show *most* of the time on a reboot.

It needs to be fixed. It is ridiculous.

Duane

I use PS tray Factory to keep my icons under control in XPHome:
http://www.pssoftlab.com/

 

[Duane Arnold]

I use PS tray Factory to keep my icons under control in XPHome:
http://www.pssoftlab.com/

It's been book marked and I'll give it a try.

Thanks

Duane