NAV and product activation 2003 - 2005

bigc: our computers act differently. NIS always feels heavier than NOD32 on mine, and is only better than KAV as far as time it takes to click on something (as KAV scans the item, there can be a hang - this bothered me about KAV, and I went to BD. Still might go back to KAV/KIS 2006 if it ever runs right on my system.)

I did do some re-formats, and activation is a pain then.

 

BigC-

I truly appreciate your expertise and respect your opinions on anti-virus software, plus, as you may recall I am a NAV user and have been for years. That said, your comment,

"I can't understand what everyone is saying about nortons activation. It's nothing, it takes about a minute to activate and that is it."

is incomplete, at best. I am pretty sure you know that in 2004 when NAV kicked off its activation scheme several hundred thousand legitimate users had their AV product wrongly disabled because of a flaw in the activation scheme, and Norton failed to resolve the problem for many of them for MONTHS. That is a far cry from a minute to activate, and that's it.

And I've said it before, but I guess its just a matter of what each individual is willing to put up with, but even if it were just a minute, if every program on my computer required me to take that minute every time I install or reinstall, or what ever, that adds up to a huge waste of my time. And that is in the best case scenario of the acivation running with out a hitch. Is is a necessary waste of time? Not in my opinion. As I have said before there are plenty of ways for a program to be protected without making me jump through hoops. I pay for a program, that is my hoop. Protecting the software maker is not my problem, so I don't feel I should be forced to waste my time on their problem. If software A does the same job as software B, but it does not waste my time with idiotic activation schemes then I will choose software A. Therefore it is a legitimate performance issue. Period.


- HandsOff