Re: Norton Anti-virus 2006, renew subscription or buy 2007?



Virus Guy wrote:

Mikey wrote:

Have Norton Anti-virus 2006 on 3 computers at work.
It's time to renew the subscriptions.

I would read a review (or two) of NAV2007 and unless there is
some special problem with it I would definitely get it Vs
new subscriptions for NAV2006.

Thanks for the reply. That's what I was thinking. I wonder
why anyone would renew the subscription for the old version
when they can get the newer version for the same price?

In 2002, I bought a still-in-box version of Norton System Works (NSW)
2002 for $10 at a swap meet. NSW includes Norton Anti-Virus (NAV).
NSW 2002 was released in the late summer or early fall of 2001.

I have installed (and re-installed) NAV-2001 and NAV-2002 on about a
dozen machines over the past 4 years, and when the subscription is
over I uninstall and reinstall the product and get another year of
free updates. Newer versions of NAV employ increasingly sophisticated
methods to prevent renewing the update service for free.

Once installed (even as recently as in the past few weeks), those old
versions of NAV will update themselves with the most recent scan
engine and virus definition files from Symantec's web site, so they
are just as capable at detecting viral files as the newest versions.
What these older versions of NAV do not do is any real-time monitoring
of the registry, or try to protect you from browser hijacking,
re-direction, phishing, etc. Then again, I don't know if the newer
versions of NAV do that - or not.

Newer versions of NAV have been universally derided for becoming
"bloat-ware" and consuming inordinate amounts of computer resources.
I have not found that to be the case with NAV 2001 and 2002 but I can
believe that for NAV 2003 and newer.

Norton/Symantec does not say, nor will they say if those older
versions are supported. But indeed they are, via LiveUpdate if
nothing else (but that's what counts).

Interesting. I would think that eventually Norton would make updates to
its older products unavailable, even if it had a valid subscription.
Maybe they do, maybe it's a cycle of 6 or 7 years and NSW hasn't reached
there yet.

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