Last time I used a Norton product - not saying Norton is bad, just the program 'feature' - it would routinely pop up a window to ask me if I want to do whatever I'm doing. . .download a file, open a webpage, conduct a transaction, etc.
Is this behavior still a thing these days? I use free Bitdefender and haven't thought twice about it until this crazy price and # of devices.
Can anyone comment on the vpn aspect of these? Don't really care about anti-virus. Or should I look elsewhere for a more solid vpn solution?
I use Norton VPN on my android phone. Generally works well. When I'm researching Instagram, usually doesn't allow pages to load on Chrome, but that's probably a meta thing.
Occasionally the same failure to load pages on news sites that want you to subscribe or something. Don't have Netflix or other services to see if it works for international viewing of content locked stuff. Didn't work with YouTube changing countries to view content.
Other than that it seems like it works fine as it's supposed to. I generally don't access free WiFi if I can't login with it on. Or I'll turn data on and VPN then login to free WiFi and turn data off.
Sometimes this doesn't work well and bandwidth is throttled down by the host I think. Like YouTube wouldn't load videos. Not sure if it's just crappy host provider or VPN on.
Does by pass blocked sites like YouTube at schools when on when otherwise not able to access with it not on.
Safer than no VPN.
Lesson my sister learned when her Facebook business or personal account got hacked for a few hours after she logged into free WiFi at a hotel or airport recently. Fortunately she got it back through emails and resets. Probably a novice; missed opportunity for the hacker.
I've been using Windows Defender for years. It works great, it's free, and it's built in to Windows. It runs invisible in the background and is light on resources.
I can vouch for malwarebytes as being freaking amazing .. even their free version has helped enormously as far as at least diagnosing (and often fixing) a problem when say one of my kids' friends gets some horrible malware on their PC and asks me for help... of course the paid version that actively protects against said horrible things for more than the 30 day trial period is better than the free version
I think it's a matter of you get what you pay for .. malwarebytes is more expensive at $40 for four devices for one year but it's great.. Norton is less expensive but works for our household
This is REALLY IMPORTANT guys... I know NOrton and Mcafee will.. no joke .. demand your credit card info to get the product up and running... for years I've been inputting the card info as requested then promptly removing it once Norton is up and running and Norton still works fine , you can do it easily enough through norton's online account they have you set up though you have to be very careful not to click too rapidly through the prompts and examine each one closely to say " yes I do want to remove my credit card info".. NORTON WILL AUTO-BILL YOU FOR A VERY HIGH AMOUNT WHEN YOUR ONE YEAR IS UP IF YOU DON'T DO THIS
Same thing with AVG though in their case you need to use their chat feature to reach a live agent ... my friend I gifted Mcafee to had no problem doing this and got her credit card info removed...
Bear in mind that if Office Depot continues the practice they've been following every black friday they will offer Mcafee for an unlimited number of devices (android, windows or mac) for a little under ten dollars.
if you google "PC mag" along with the name of the product you're interested in, "Norton" or "mcafee" or "malwarebytes" or what not you'll get Neil's perspective on them.. he has a very impressive list of credentials (in my opinion anyways ) if you read them down near the bottom of the article
Last time I used a Norton product - not saying Norton is bad, just the program 'feature' - it would routinely pop up a window to ask me if I want to do whatever I'm doing. . .download a file, open a webpage, conduct a transaction, etc.
Is this behavior still a thing these days? I use free Bitdefender and haven't thought twice about it until this crazy price and # of devices.
Norton's popups are still there, probably more than ever, but they're all configurable in the Settings section. By now I know where to find them, so I just turn them all off. And Norton is still routinely rated as the #1 security package. So I'm going for this deal - this is about as good as it gets.
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This. Are folks not using these anymore?
I use Malwarebytes and Windows defender together.
Seriously! I use it for the auto-VPN alone when I'm on airport/hotel wifi.
Is this behavior still a thing these days? I use free Bitdefender and haven't thought twice about it until this crazy price and # of devices.
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I use Norton VPN on my android phone. Generally works well. When I'm researching Instagram, usually doesn't allow pages to load on Chrome, but that's probably a meta thing.
Occasionally the same failure to load pages on news sites that want you to subscribe or something. Don't have Netflix or other services to see if it works for international viewing of content locked stuff. Didn't work with YouTube changing countries to view content.
Other than that it seems like it works fine as it's supposed to. I generally don't access free WiFi if I can't login with it on. Or I'll turn data on and VPN then login to free WiFi and turn data off.
Sometimes this doesn't work well and bandwidth is throttled down by the host I think. Like YouTube wouldn't load videos. Not sure if it's just crappy host provider or VPN on.
Does by pass blocked sites like YouTube at schools when on when otherwise not able to access with it not on.
Safer than no VPN.
Lesson my sister learned when her Facebook business or personal account got hacked for a few hours after she logged into free WiFi at a hotel or airport recently. Fortunately she got it back through emails and resets. Probably a novice; missed opportunity for the hacker.
I think it's a matter of you get what you pay for .. malwarebytes is more expensive at $40 for four devices for one year but it's great.. Norton is less expensive but works for our household
This is REALLY IMPORTANT guys... I know NOrton and Mcafee will.. no joke .. demand your credit card info to get the product up and running... for years I've been inputting the card info as requested then promptly removing it once Norton is up and running and Norton still works fine , you can do it easily enough through norton's online account they have you set up though you have to be very careful not to click too rapidly through the prompts and examine each one closely to say " yes I do want to remove my credit card info".. NORTON WILL AUTO-BILL YOU FOR A VERY HIGH AMOUNT WHEN YOUR ONE YEAR IS UP IF YOU DON'T DO THIS
Same thing with AVG though in their case you need to use their chat feature to reach a live agent ... my friend I gifted Mcafee to had no problem doing this and got her credit card info removed...
Bear in mind that if Office Depot continues the practice they've been following every black friday they will offer Mcafee for an unlimited number of devices (android, windows or mac) for a little under ten dollars.
if you google "PC mag" along with the name of the product you're interested in, "Norton" or "mcafee" or "malwarebytes" or what not you'll get Neil's perspective on them.. he has a very impressive list of credentials (in my opinion anyways ) if you read them down near the bottom of the article
Is this behavior still a thing these days? I use free Bitdefender and haven't thought twice about it until this crazy price and # of devices.