Trend 2005 or NIS antispyware 2005

Hi i have Trend 2005...but am curious about NIS Antispyware 2005 edition new one out..do u think that's better than Trend?...thanks MD

 

If you are talking about detection, then yes, NIS is better than Trend.

But Trend has much better value for money.

 

I have used both nav 2005 and trendmicro 2005 and in the real world away from av testers I really believe that trend is as good as nav with a lot less resources used with trend.

 

For what I have seen, NIS have a much better detection, but Trend use much less resources, so you have to make a choise between these items...

 

Norton Internet Security 2005 Anti-Spyware Edition beta is bloatware.

The 33MB download installs
- approximately 314MB of files,
- 11 services,
- 3 startup items,
- 2 toolbars and
- 2 BHOs
All of which results in 8 additional processes running in memory on the PC.

The beta version is free but I'm not going to install it. My computer will work alot slower.

Besides I don't trust suites. I can't believe that ONE company is a master in any kind of malware.
So suites must have good parts, lesser good parts and even missing parts.
For example, I can't believe that Norton AntiSpyware is better than CounterSpy.
CounterSpy started with the same fingerprint database of MS/Giant AntiSpyware and added more and more fingerprints afterwards.

I prefer separate softwares specialized in one or a few types of malware
and if you have to expand NIS AntiSpyware with additional anti-malware softwares your computer will work even slower.

I think Trend suite combined with CounterSpy is a much better choice.

 

Hi,

Should things go south, Norton charges a hefty fee for tech. support, while trendmicro's is free. Note the new version of TrendMicro will be here October 2005

 

Rico,
That's correct.
The phone support costs $29.95 upto $69.95 per incident.
For that price you can buy almost any security software on the market.

 

I would go with Trend over the bloat mobile known as NIS also.

Hey, ErikAlbert you finally made it over here from that 'other' forum. I was wondering when you were going to find your way over here. Just wait till Paranoid finds out! The fun never ends.

 

hahaha,
That's why I used the same nick and no member, not even Paranoid scares me.
Besides this forum is VERY informative, full of practical tips, alot more than the 'other forum' IMO.
So I have alot of reading to do here.
I only wished my first language was English in stead of Dutch.