ZoneAlarm 6.0 works great for me...6 months and no problems. It replaced McAfee on my machine.

It is a CNET editors' choice:
http://reviews.cnet.com/ZoneAlarm_In...-31447702.html

ok just dumped NAV and installed AVG 7.1. One problem. When I now go to Windows update, I get a blank page. It goes nowhere. is there a script or activex blocker on AVG?

Which has now been taken over by Symantec and you're being offered a "special" upgrade to Norton...

I had a good experience with Sygate as well. Oh well - looks like ZA instead.

After reading this thread and other comments on Amazon, I am abandoning my plan to purchase upgrades for NIS (I'm currently using NIS 2003 successfully on two computers). In this thread, I saw one person advocate PC-cillin and several praising either AVG and Avast!. In addition to NAV, NIS also includes the internet security and firewall functions. Do these other products cover those functions as well or just the anti-virus functions?

Add'l background in case it impacts anything: running XP SP2 on 2 computers, one a Dell Latitude and the other a Dell Desktop. Using with a Linksys router but no additional firewall installed for the router. Both computers are also running NSW (one 2003 and the other 2005) without problems (at least not since I de-installed Norton Anti-spam). The 2005 I will probably renew, not upgrade or replace. Uncertain about the 2003, since I don't think I can renew it, but with NSW, the primary reason to keep it may be Norton Utilities. From an earlier experience, I don't have any interest in McAfee (and probably not Zone Alarm either).

Thanks for your thoughts.

AVG has a combination product that has both Anti-virus and firewall. It is not free. I've just had 2 subscriptions to NSW expire and so I dumped it for the AVG combo. I now how AVG firewall/AV running on 4 computers and am very pleased with it. I found the NSW was incredibly bloated and rather cumbersome to use.

Put me into the " I love AVG " camp.

I just dumped Norton and Macafee off of 7 different computers. I tried the AVG virus/firewall program on my 2 home computers and liked it so much that I bought a 2 user license. I'm very, very happy with the results. AVG does what it advertises it will do! ...without being bloated and resource intensive.

I just installed AVG on 5 computers at my church this morning, dumping Macafee. Their subscription process used to be so easy, but now they want you to buy a whole upgrade (for $39.99)

Figuring that I've bought 7 licenses of AVG for $229.00 total, that works out to about $32 per machine. But AVG license is good for 2 years, which brings it down to $16/machine. I think that is a really good deal And, they don't make you jump through hoops with the rebate crap.

My thanks to the poster who turned me on to AVG.

Another vote for pc-cillin. I combine it wiht MS spyware and spybot

I've been happy with the free AVG, and utilize TuneUp Utilities 2006, for the computer, pretty cheap and a great trial period to fix your computer. Zone Alarm keeps me protected as well.

All three of these are now my choice over Norton... I miss Norton but, will move forward.

I've installed AVG and everything seems to be working well. One difference I notice with not having NIS is the ad blocker. I am seeing more ads than I used to. As far as I can tell, there is not a comparable function in AVG to that one in NIS.

The comments in this thread were quite helpful. Thanks to all!

We are pleased with the PC-Cillin also and another small local company has authorized it a month ago. Even bough a 10-pack for our personal computers.

MisterNice

I'm a Trend fan all around here. I have it on about 65,000 devices here, plus ScanMail on perhaps two dozen email servers and several thousand instances of server protect. It's worked out great the past few years. PC-Cillin, the consumer version, seems to be pretty good too.

Long time happy AVG (free version) user here. Updates itself almost everyday very quickly even over dialup and scans incoming and outgoing email as well (has a plug in for Outlook) and does not slow my machine down.

My mother's machine was running real slow and after figuring out she didn't have a virus or configuration problems, I uninstalled all the Norton stuff she had running and installed AVG on her machine in its place. There was a very noticeable pick up in speed with the Norton resource hog gone.

Try the Symantec Corporate - its uses the same engine of Norton, but without all the bloat of its consumer counter part.

-Vincent

Any opinions on NOD32 vs. AVG?

Norton's crap because it hogs too much resources and doesn't provide enough protection. I stick with AVG.