Norton Antivirus 2004 Worth Getting?

[Joakim Agren]

Originally posted by haha21@15 June 2004 - 16:46
dont be too perinoid of security
- 1 firewall is good than enough! likey if you have 2 firewall walls it would really give alot of problems if 2 firwalls mix together it won't stack the protection.

- Don't worry about your port-forwarding and disabling it, okay goto port-trigger if you can find it in your menu of your router and if you do type the exact ports in/out in one line in the port-triggering. If you don't know what port-triggering does Il tell you. Port-trigger is for example if you dont use it as much as often like p2p programs port-forward it and trigger it to so everytime you start the program it will unblock the port and use the program without having to disable or enable it again and when your done with the program it automatically blocks the port that you used for the p2p program. So everytime you want to use emule it unblock the port and if your not using emule it will automatically blocks the port for you.

Oh about norton I think norton is good for myself I use NAV2004PRO dont get systemworks or interent security there a bunch of useless programs when the only program you need is an anti-virus. It only displays 2 in my process tree it aint a ram hog if you use 2004pro and dont forget to turn off sav scan beucase that thing that norton put out for 2004 is very annoying, it automatically scans everyfile you downloaded off the net and it lags your computer baddly.

But up to you, your choice, your decision.
sorry for the grammar.

Hello!

What do you mean with SAV scan?

Dont you mean Scan Within Compressed Files?

Because that option does what you said scan everything that gets downloaded

[whiterook-2]

Originally posted by Joakim Agren@15 June 2004 - 10:17
Hello!

This is "THE" greatest critic against NAV 2004 that it really slows down the computer even if it is a new one. However it later turned out that it was a stupid setting in NAV 2004 that caused it. Open up NAV from the messages field go into Options and under the Auto Protect settings>Which Files To Scan For Viruses here disable the Scan Within Compressed Files. Then click the OK button and youre done. Just Re-start your computer for the changes to take effect. Now your apps should work much faster and the presence of NAV should hardly gets noticed atleast not if you are running XP and have a fairly recent computer.

The disadvantage of this option beeing disabled are ofcourse that you dont get compressed files scanned automatically during download so before you open those in the future you should make it a habit of right clicking them and select scan for viruses and NAV will check em out.

Thanx Joakim...i'll give it a try. I looked at that once and thought I had changed it to your suggested setting, I just looked again, and it still has "scan compressed files" checked.
Hope it makes the difference, don't really want to go out and get another one

[Wolfmight]

well I got norton 2004 anyways and it works great. turned off that setting yall said..etc