LovingSticky
10-16-08, 04:14 PM
Do not say big words that you may regret later...
Well, I do not use AV products for more than 5 years (except seldom OneCare scan, run as an ActiveX component in a browser), and never had a virus/spyware problem. Important thing: I purchase all my SW, download absolutely no warez, and have a Linux router w/ firewall enabled (plus Vista, before XP, firewall) , and always install latest security updates.
Anyway, after seeing how good NIS 2009 looks like, I downloaded 15-day trial version myself and installed it (took about 40 seconds, quite incredible!), let it scan my whole hard-drive (hundreds of thousands of files), and the only "threat" found was few tracking cookies (that is not actual threat) and Cain-and-Abel security tool that I purposely myself downloaded some time ago. Nothig else. No security risk at all, after 5 years using my brain only as a security solution :)
This said, while the price of NIS 2009 is good (and you can install it on 3 computers), I do not see any real reason why *I* should pay for it. I will uninstall it before the trial ends. I would recommend it to other people though (that need security other than their brain). :)
Btw, some interesting reading why NIS 2009 is significantly faster, while staying safe: http://community.norton.com/norton/blog/article?message.uid=20642
Well, I do not use AV products for more than 5 years (except seldom OneCare scan, run as an ActiveX component in a browser), and never had a virus/spyware problem. Important thing: I purchase all my SW, download absolutely no warez, and have a Linux router w/ firewall enabled (plus Vista, before XP, firewall) , and always install latest security updates.
Anyway, after seeing how good NIS 2009 looks like, I downloaded 15-day trial version myself and installed it (took about 40 seconds, quite incredible!), let it scan my whole hard-drive (hundreds of thousands of files), and the only "threat" found was few tracking cookies (that is not actual threat) and Cain-and-Abel security tool that I purposely myself downloaded some time ago. Nothig else. No security risk at all, after 5 years using my brain only as a security solution :)
This said, while the price of NIS 2009 is good (and you can install it on 3 computers), I do not see any real reason why *I* should pay for it. I will uninstall it before the trial ends. I would recommend it to other people though (that need security other than their brain). :)
Btw, some interesting reading why NIS 2009 is significantly faster, while staying safe: http://community.norton.com/norton/blog/article?message.uid=20642