DublinDoodah
02-12-2009, 02:13 PM
My subscription to Norton Antivirus expired a few weeks ago and, being a Roadrunner user, I decided to try the free security software (CA Internet Security Suite) offered on Roadrunner's site. OMG, what a big mistake.
Without boring everyone with the painful details I'll summarize my experience. It took a lot of fine tuning of the setup to eliminate the tons of false security alerts and to get my network devices to work correctly, it noticibly slowed the operation of my browser, and most importantly, I had to disable the firewall to visit this forum.:rolleyes:
The wife just bought a 3-user, 2-year subscription to Norton for $37 (perfect since we have 3 computers to maintain) and the difference is amazing: no setup adjustments, no obtrusive updates, no false alarms, and much faster browser. Also the scans are almost unnoticable.
I've learned that I can't afford free.
P.S. I've got no relationship with symantec and I'm not trying to claim it is the best security product. I'm just trying to warn anyone considering the free Roadrunner offering that it may not be to their liking.
Without boring everyone with the painful details I'll summarize my experience. It took a lot of fine tuning of the setup to eliminate the tons of false security alerts and to get my network devices to work correctly, it noticibly slowed the operation of my browser, and most importantly, I had to disable the firewall to visit this forum.:rolleyes:
The wife just bought a 3-user, 2-year subscription to Norton for $37 (perfect since we have 3 computers to maintain) and the difference is amazing: no setup adjustments, no obtrusive updates, no false alarms, and much faster browser. Also the scans are almost unnoticable.
I've learned that I can't afford free.
P.S. I've got no relationship with symantec and I'm not trying to claim it is the best security product. I'm just trying to warn anyone considering the free Roadrunner offering that it may not be to their liking.