Xenophon PCDGS
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One of my neighbours tells me that she has just added this to her existing Norton package. Has anyone on this website installed it and what do they think of it?
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Norton Identity Advisor Plus
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I haven't but in my opinion Windows Defender is perfectly adequate for Windows. There really is no need to pay for 3rd party AV.
Kite159
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Personally once my current Norton package expires in a couple months time I will be ditching Norton. Far too many pop-ups trying to sell extra parts.
Knowing Norton they will provide the "Identity Advisor Plus" for free at the start, but will soon want extra money for that added protection
Knowing Norton they will provide the "Identity Advisor Plus" for free at the start, but will soon want extra money for that added protection
3rd rail land
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Absolutely. When I had AVG Free installed it would endless pop up trying to persuade me to upgrade to the paid version. Irritated me to the point that I uninstalled it.
Scare-ware, along with VPNs, the latter have their role but not for "security" reasons in general. I admit that I've worked in the computer industry since 1984, so I may be more confident than your neighbour, but I'm unaware of ever having something useful from these products, they just get in the way and stop you doing what you want to do with your computer. I don't generally use Windows, admittedly, but I have a Windows 10 machine and its built-in solution (per 3rd rail land) seems perfectly adequate to me, as long as the user makes sure to keep it up to date.
The VPN thing really gets me, adverts about "insecure wifi networks", yes, they are, but the vast majority of users have end-to-end encryption over the top of it whether they realise it or not. VPNs are fine if you live in Greece and want to watch BBC iPlayer, so they have valid uses, but not the one they seem to be sold for.
More important than all this scare-ware is an understanding of what's important on your computer, and back it up in some way so that you can recover it if you need to, which might be because of a hardware failure and nothing to do with "bad software". And don't open attachments from unknown sources!
The VPN thing really gets me, adverts about "insecure wifi networks", yes, they are, but the vast majority of users have end-to-end encryption over the top of it whether they realise it or not. VPNs are fine if you live in Greece and want to watch BBC iPlayer, so they have valid uses, but not the one they seem to be sold for.
More important than all this scare-ware is an understanding of what's important on your computer, and back it up in some way so that you can recover it if you need to, which might be because of a hardware failure and nothing to do with "bad software". And don't open attachments from unknown sources!
I haven't used it, but having had a look at what it is and what it offers, I'd say "It depends".
If they are savvy (both in terms of Internet usage and generally where scams are concerned) then it probably doesn't offer anything useful, but if they are the type who are likely to click "Yes" on pop-ups or use the same password across multiple sites then it's probably worth it, at least in the first year when it's heavily discounted.
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