selenarusso
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im using avast free right now but i want to get something with full features. would you put bitdefender above others like norton and kaspersky
would you recommend bitdefender
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lucasbytegenius
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I'd put anything above Norton, except McAffee, which I put below infinity.
jamesd1981
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The only two anti-virus i recommend is, avast or avira.
Used in conjunction with malwarebytes.
Used in conjunction with malwarebytes.
Norton is good, it's just not free.
lucasbytegenius
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No, Norton is hellspawn. A nightmare if you like your computer to not be sluggish all the time.
That was true five years ago. Now it's way better.
Based on popular belief or on experience. Because I've used it and it wasn't closely as bad as people said it was.
Experience. Seriously, I help my Dad remove that crap from his customers machines (along with the awful McAfee). Once it's gone, voila, their machines are suddenly much faster.
One of my friends had Norton 360 V2 or whatever it was on subscription and when it ran out he asked if he should buy it again. I said forget it and stuck MSE on his machine instead. Much better.
Why would I recommend or want to use the newer versions knowing full well that their software is pretty rubbish and not very effective? Most of Dad's customers who had it have ditched it now and gone with freeware or Kaspersky.
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I totally agree that paying for it is useless compared to the free version of Avast, but Norton isn't that much of a ressource hog, just a little. It works great against viruses, I tested it (Norton 360, first version I think 2010) and it picked up some viruses I didn't with Avast and other A-V.