Norton Internet Security for $10, or free MSE?

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cuemasterfl

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Staples sent me an email offering NIS for $10 after easy rebate (instant), but right now I am running Microsoft Security Essentials, which is free. Is the extra functionality of NIS worth the $10 or do you think MSE will be fine? What would you guys do?
 
Keep MSE.
Scored higher than Symantec (Norton) on av-comparatives.
 
You'll also be paying a lot more than $10 to renew it a year from now as well.
 
Wow...I don't see this ending well. Wodz...you might want to check out the rules.
 
cuemasterfl said:
Is the extra functionality of NIS worth the $10 or do you think MSE will be fine? What would you guys do?
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Uninstall MSE, download the NIS trial, install/use, and then decide for yourself. :)


zero2dash said:
Keep MSE.
Scored higher than Symantec (Norton) on av-comparatives.
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In the retrospective/proactive test, yes, but bear in mind this test doesn't actually test all of Norton's proactive protection due to it being a plain old chuck-millions-of-files-in-a-folder-and-hit-the-scan-button test; Norton's behaviour blocker (SONAR2) doesn't come in to play because the files aren't executed. Also, Norton fared much better than OneCare and MSE in this year's on-demand tests, and in the recent PUA test.
 
cuemasterfl said:
Staples sent me an email offering NIS for $10 after easy rebate (instant), but right now I am running Microsoft Security Essentials, which is free. Is the extra functionality of NIS worth the $10 or do you think MSE will be fine? What would you guys do?
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Norton could come to my door with a free lifetime subscription and a check made out to me for $10 and I would still use MSE.
 
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