PC Protection: NOD32 or Norton?

[htfaber]

Hi guys,

I'm about to install XP again and I want to get a new virusscanner. So far I've been using Norton, which was fine. But I've been hearing some very good things about NOD32. I was wondering whether someone has experience with NOD32 and if it's preferable to Norton.

And is it useful to use ZoneAlarm next to Norton or NOD32?

[racer_f50]

I've got a friend who uses NOD32 and really speaks highly of it.
My experience with Norton was pretty bad, so I switched to AntiVir a while back, which is free, fast, and frequently updated.

I disagree with thamar on ZoneAlarm, I've been using it for years and really like it. It gives you much more control about incoming/outgoing connections than just buying a router would (program specific privelages), and the newer versions really load up quickly. Also, it has a free version, which is more than you can say about buying a router.

With the combination of those two I've never had a problem on this computer.

[Fleischmann]

Whatever you do, DO NOT use Norton. It's just an irritating nanny that can seriosuly spoil your PC's general performance. There are many other one's that are cheaper like Kaspersky, Koala etc.

[ARMAN]

NOD 8)

[PATo355]

NOD32 is the best ...

[graywolf624]

Id use both zone alarm and a router.. The router only secures incomming, you need something to protect you outgoing if you get a trojan.

[htfaber]

Thanks guys, much appreciated!

[DeMoN]

yeah norton 2005 or 2006 is a resource hogger. I got NAV Corporate V10.2 this thing is really small and fast. Best Anti Virus ever.

[DeMoN]

After paying A LOT for a Dual Core Athlon XP2 computer with 2gb XMS Corsair RAM Memory and 76GB 10,000 rpm WD Raptor hard drive, I felt REALLY mad when I could see a small delay in opening programs like Firefox, Word, Photoshop, etc... so then I did countless hours of research to find the best feature/performance I could get.

nlite is a program that strips your Windows XP installer (by this, I mean many features werent ever installed instead of stopping and/or removing them). My windows XP Pro went a diet treatment by removing:

Themes (Classic Theme is only available)
Old Drivers
Wallpaper
Windows Media Player
Windows Movie Maker
Animated Character for Search
Windows XP Tour
Screensavers
Games
Language Pack
Help
System Restore
Windows Update

:o now there is less crap loaded on my computer at startup and lest processes running and the windows folder is smaller than usual.

Only things remaining in my windows XP install:

Applications:

Calculator
Defragmenter

Drivers:

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
Battery
Bluetooth Support
Brother Devices
Display Adapters
Display Adapters (old)
Ethernet (LAN)
Firewire (1394) Support
IBM Thinkpad
InfraRed
ISDN
MultiFunctional
Multi-port serial adapters
PCMCIA
Ports (COM & LPT)
SCSI/RAID
Sound Controllers
Toshiba DVD decoder card
Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)

Internet Utilities:

ATM Support
Client for Netware Networks
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer Core
MAC Bridge
NetShell Cmd-Tool
Network Monitor Driver and Tools
NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Protocol
Outlook Express
Tcp/Ip Version 6

Operating System Options:

16-bit support
Administrator VB scripts
Application compatibility patch
Command-Line tools
Disk Cleanup
Extra Fonts
Floppy Support
Jet Database Engine
MDAC
Out of Box Experience (OOBE)
Printer Support
Web View

Services:

Application Layer Gateway
Background Intelligent Transfer
COM+
DHCP Client
Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC)
DNS Client
Event Log
Internet Authentication (IAS)
Logical Disk Manager
Management Instrumentation (WMI)
Message Queuing (MSMQ)
Network DDE
Performance Logs and Alerts
QoS RSVP
Quality of Service (QoS)
Service Advertising Protocol
Shell Services
SNMP
System Event Notification (SENS)
System Monitor
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Terminal Services
Universal Plug and Play
Volume Shadow Copy
Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
Windows Time
Wireless Zero Configuration

I took a step ahead and got the Norton Corporate Anti Virus, its is 12mb only :shock:

Well, now my computer is exageratedly fast :!:

[DeMoN]

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[htfaber]

Well, now my computer is exageratedly fast

I can imagine, with
2gb XMS Corsair RAM Memory
!

Thanks for the extended vision into your computer. I was thinking of using Norton Corp too, but now I've decided tot use NOD32 next to ZoneAlarm. So far so good!

[DeMoN]

^ I can safelly say its not only the 2GB ram, cuz I was using the normal Win XP SP2 before and it took time to load things up. With this lite version of Win XP there are less services and processes going on any particular time. I have not tried NOD32 so I cant compare to Norton corp, but Nortong being 12MB installed, I think thats as good as it gets.