Norton Antivirus 2001: Butchers The Worms, Trojans and Viruses
Written: Apr 09 '01
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Pros: LiveUpdate, easy-to-use, protects your e-mail, slaughtered that virus
Cons: None that I know of
The Bottom Line: The Bottom Line? Norton Antivirus 2001 works.
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15 days ago, I woke up one morning, desperately wanting to write an epinion. After I casually bounced down to our basement, the room where our computer is stored, my eyes riveted upon a letter. A letter which never entitled me to compose that epinion until March 24, 2001.
The letter went like this:
To everyone here in the house,
Do NOT use our computer or send any e-mails to ANYONE. When I was using our computer last night, two of my friends e-mailed me, saying that they received a virus from us. A virus known as the w95.mtx virus!
Michael
At that moment, my dad and I went to the computer store and picked up our copy of Norton AntiVirus 2001. We popped in the CD, and installed it (installation was a breeze too, I must add).
IT'S... D-E-D, DEAD
In Norton AntiVirus 2001, you can choose whether to:
• Scan the whole computer
• Scan all removable drives, such as an Iomega Zip drive, CD drive and a floppy drive
• Scan a floppy disk
• Scan a folder
........or...........
• Scan an individual file
We asked Dr. Norton to scan the whole computer.
Did it scan quickly? Well, not really. Maybe it's just my pathetic Pentium II-233 Mhz computer, but it took nearly 45 minutes to scan! Right now, I shouldn't judge Dr. Norton. Blame it's speed on my computer, and check out the other epinions here.
Was it accurate? Oh yes! It scanned everything on my harddrive - folders, individual files and even the compressed zip files.
Did it remove the virus? DID IT REMOVE THE VIRUS?! OF COURSE IT DID! In fact, it didn't only remove the virus - it repaired some of the infected files (though if you really want your computer to be fully fixed, check out Norton Utilies 2001).
How many viruses does Norton Antivirus 2001 Kill, Massacre, Slaughter and Stifle? At this moment, Dr. Norton deals with 49,002 viruses (worms and trojans included)! Now that is a LOT!
The Many Features of Norton Antivirus 2001
You can enable the Norton Auto-Protect feature. This continuously monitors your computer for virus-like activities. Now at first, it accused innocent programs for doing a virus-like activity, but if you just press "Exclude", Norton Antivirus will remember that the program is innocent and will never accuse it in the future.
Dr. Norton will also scan any attachment you receive when you check your e-mail and anything you download from the Internet AT THE MOMENT YOU RECEIVE THE FILE.
You can schedule it to scan for viruses automatically on a certain day and time. Or, if you choose, create a Rescue Disk so that next time Windows explodes, you can run Windows again.
AND - as long as your computer is connected to the Internet, Dr. Norton will never age and rot, thanks to LiveUpdate! LiveUpdate will check the Internet for new Viruses to protect against, for Norton Antivirus patches, and simply keeps updating itself so your computer can be virus-free. LiveUpdate silently works in the background without taking up much of your system resources, and starts whenever you're connected to the internet.
LiveUpdate is really up-to-date. I checked out the Internet for newly discovered viruses. Here are some of them: VBS/Staple.a@MM, W32/Scrambler.g@MM , Linux/Lion.worm and W32/Magistr@MM. Now I checked Norton Antivirus 2001 - all, I repeat, ALL of those newly discovered viruses are not allowed in my computer.
Easy To Use?
Norton Antivirus 2001 is EXTREMELY easy to use because first, it's well organized. Everything's in GOOD, OLD, SIMPLE ENGLISH! When you want a job done, it's easy to locate what to click. Another reason is that when you want something done, just click on what job you want it to do, and Dr. Norton will guide you step-by-step.
Hang 'Em, Heal 'Em, or Imprison 'Em?
Another thing I like about Dr. Norton is that you have full control. If you go to the options, you can choose what it does when it finds a virus - Hang them (delete the infected file), Heal 'Em (try to repair the virus then quarantine if unsuccessful), or Imprison them (quarantine the virus). Other choices allow you to shut down the computer and deny access to the infected file.
You can choose which files to scan, by typing it's extensions (extensions determine what kind of file it is). You can also choose which Pop3 e-mail accounts it should protect (an e-mail account from your Internet server. Hotmail is NOT a Pop3 e-mail account).
Norton Antivirus 2001 vs McAfee VirusScan
Now before I conclude this epinion, here comes the choice: McAfee or Norton?? Both claim to be the No.1 Antivirus solutions, but after reading a couple of epinions on McAfee, I can now make a short comparison.
Norton Antivirus 2001 and McAfee VirusScan do the same things: they both have a kind of Liveupdate, you can schedule a time to scan, etc.
However, there was a repeated complaint from our fellow epinioneers!! McAfee's VSHIELD (Norton's Auto-Protect) just STRANGLES your computer's system resources! Windows crashes, Vshield keeps on scanning, there are loads of bugs... everything seems to be in such a mess with McAfee.
There is one good point from McAfee though, that Norton can't topple down. McAfee boasts protection from about 50,000 viruses! As I said earlier, Norton currently protects against 49,002 viruses.
Now you decide - Epinions' estimated price for McAfee is $49. Norton's price is $39. I chose Norton Antivirus 2001.
Recommended:
Yes
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