Symantec Intros Norton AntiVirus Dual Protection for Mac

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Symantec Intros Norton AntiVirus Dual Protection for Mac
Monday, March 10, 2008
Posted by: Glenn

Symantec today announced its Norton AntiVirus Dual Protection for Mac, featuring vulnerability protection technology and antivirus for Mac users running Boot Camp or Windows virtualization software. The new software package includes Norton AntiVirus 11 for Mac and Norton AntiVirus 2008 for Windows. According to the company, this combination of software provides comprehensive protection from both Mac and Windows-based vulnerabilities and viruses. The Norton Dual Protection for Mac is priced at $69.95. It is available either as a download or on CD.



http://www.123macmini.com/news/story/902.html

[zuzu]

What's the point of AV software on OSX? As for anti-virus / anti-spyware / anti-malware on Windows, nothing beats Kaspersky, right? The old guard (e.g. Symantec) are too scared of being sued for blocking "legitimate" malware to effectively block them.
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[stevenz]

If the resulting system resource usage and instability is similar to that caused by the Windows version, then Norton is more damaging than any mac "virus" out there. Horrible, horrible piece of software.

[Pleiades]

If this is anything remotely like the previous versions of NAV for Mac it's going to cause system instability, slowdowns and be a real pain in the ass to remove.

Until there's a real threat of viruses on the Mac, I'll steer clear. And for Windows, I use AVG.
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[Ben Tex]

[MacRat]

The best software to SCREW UP you Mac is anything from Symantec.

avoid at all costs.

[Cypher]

I used to swear by Norton AV on the PC, however in recent years it just became a resource hog as it got more and more bloated. I ended up uninstalling it and switching it AVG, it was like suddenly having a new machine.

No way would I let it anywhere near my Mac.
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[MacScout67]

I have no personal experience with the Mac version of Norton AV, but Norton AV 2001 and 2002 were probably the last acceptable releases for Windows. It became such a resource hog after that. Like others have mentioned, AVG is probably the best thing going these days.

[WheelSpinners]

I don't mean for this to be a smart ass question, but what does the Mac version of Norton scan for? I don't think there are any known viruses. Does it just look for Windows viruses on your system (like in Mail), so you don't pass them along? Or does it look for things like QuickTime vulnerabilities or something?

[jb]

[Yvan256]

I was an AVG user on Windows too. Didn't seem to take much CPU to keep it running, unlike Norton.

On a completely unrelated topic, I just upgraded my Mac mini to 3GB - w00t!
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[JohnnyBoy]

[Aargh-a-Knot]

This probably means that Norton now has a team of people writing viruses for the Mac. I've always been a little suspicious of a company whose livelihood depends on there being viruses...so, if one day people stopped making new viruses, Norton would just say "oh well, I guess we did our job. Lets move to Florida and get a tan!" I don't think so.

[Ben Tex]

I saw something interesting about this new bundle on Cnet the other day.

http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9897122-57.html

I see a name change coming.