Norton vs F-secure

I was wondering which software to purchase for my company. We are currently running Norton. My company is small one server and 9 computers so I was wondering which software would fit our needs the best and provide the most protection.

Thank you
Jessica

Hello,
We have Norton and of late it has proven to be a big steamy pile of crap...

We had viruses running around our network that when you went to the website to try and see what it was, Symantec knew about it, and oh, you wand a Def for it? That won't be until next week. So you call gold support (Which we also bought) and they said, well can't you wait until the patch comes out? NO, what do you think nimrod!?

Anyway, we now have a variation of Randex running around, well we did, until I manually went to every one of our computers to check for the process and remove it. NAV was only catching half of the virus, not the whole thing.

I don't know if F-Secure is any better because you're only as secure as your last definition, but I couldn't recommend NAV to Osama Bin Laden right now.

NAV = Stinky Like Poo!

Oh I almost forgot, someone took their laptop home, their kid played on it and downloaded a virus from 2001. They plugged the laptop back in and it started spreading through the network. When we called Gold support they said, "Well we don't look for all the viruses all the time..."

We ended up setting up IDS and some honeypots to catcher hackers (Obviously) and to also give us some early warning from viruses that NAV is missing.

And don't even get me started on Spyware that goes out and automatically downloads all of it's little cousins. I'm sorry, but a program that you get off of a website and installs itself through activeX without any kind of warning, and then dowloads more programs to embed itself deeper, that's called a virus...

OK, enough ranting...

You posted this thread twice - please don't cross post in the future.

Personally, I recommend neither Norton or F-Secure.

We used to have Norton (on a small home network of 4 computers) and it wouldn't remove anything apart from Trojan horses (not much good with worms and backdoor viruses)

So, after searching around we decided on AVG from www.grisoft.com. The free version of AVG 6 was very impressive and we later bought AVG SoHo edition. I recommend you buy it as you'll definately get your moneys worth!!!

While your at it, get ZoneAlarm Pro from Zone Labs. It stops hackers and cookies getting through and its cache cleaner will clean all trace of your internet activity!

Hope this helps

Why would you not recommend f-secure?

Thanks you guys have been helpful.

Jessica

F-Secure is a bit like PC-Cillin from Trend Micro, it can identify infected files but isn't much good at healing or deleting them. AVG is the way to go!!!

i've been checking a lot of files using different antiviruses, even some that u haven't heard of and the best are - avg and ikarus - to put it, ikarus detected more than any other antivirus. I am totally surprised that it's so "unknown".
they give a demo license on their website, search for (ikarus antivirus) u'll find the website - i don't know why the major antivirus companies such as trend micro & symantec cannot beat the small.. such as avg or f-secure (both are ok), but this tiny antivirus beats em all. funny huh

i don't work for them or anything like that, i just want ppl to know - why? because i hate spammers, viruses and all malicious files and i think that i'm not they only 1.