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You will hear lots of opinions and there are good competitors. Unfortunately, I hear / see time and again in here that X, Y or Z is blocking internet, connections, updates or some other thing.<br />
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Symantec is Enterprise level software and it is cost competitive (not the absolute cheapest). I use newest version of Symantec Endpoint Protection on Windows 10 and it works great. The darts thrown at it from some past experiences have seen their day and passed. It works fine.<br />
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Norton Small Business is the same basic engine and is geared to smaller or individual clients. I have single clients with this and it works well.
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You will hear lots of opinions and there are good competitors. Unfortunately, I hear / see time and again in here that X, Y or Z is blocking internet, connections, updates or some other thing.

Symantec is Enterprise level software and it is cost competitive (not the absolute cheapest). I use newest version of Symantec Endpoint Protection on Windows 10 and it works great. The darts thrown at it from some past experiences have seen their day and passed. It works fine.

Norton Small Business is the same basic engine and is geared to smaller or individual clients. I have single clients with this and it works well.

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79 dollars every year norton charge.
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The problem you have is that this is competitive with the best, and cheaper product may not be as good.
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The problem you have is that this is competitive with the best, and cheaper product may not be as good.

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You can get free antivirus and people use free stuff. I do not recommend to my clients however.
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You can get free antivirus and people use free stuff. I do not recommend to my clients however.

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All AV's have good and bad ,Norton over the years has been horrible to OK(as have been many others).<br />
I had a piece of malware that was scanned by 52 of the 54 large AV companies (M$,McAfee,Norton)and they missed it.<br />
None of them are anywhere near 100% and it only takes one miss to ruin your day.<br />
So buyer beware.<br />
I would suggest a unified threat management appliance as opposed to standalone AV. <br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_threat_management" rel="ugc">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_threat_management</a>
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All AV's have good and bad ,Norton over the years has been horrible to OK(as have been many others).
I had a piece of malware that was scanned by 52 of the 54 large AV companies (M$,McAfee,Norton)and they missed it.
None of them are anywhere near 100% and it only takes one miss to ruin your day.
So buyer beware.
I would suggest a unified threat management appliance as opposed to standalone AV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_threat_management [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_threat_management]

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Is their any other antivirus beside that which is cheaper and have better performance for microsoft products?
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Is their any other antivirus beside that which is cheaper and have better performance for microsoft products?

Norton antivirus

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Anti-Virus Apps

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AntiSpam

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Anti-Spyware

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Windows 7

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