How good is Norton Antivirus? (PC)

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From: Lars J|dal
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:01

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How does Norton Antivirus compare to other virus programs, such as
F-prot and Vscan, apart from that Norton is commercial? Norton is
almost never mentioned here. Is that because it is commercial or
because the other programs are better?  Please note that I'm NOT
trying to start a flame war about "my scanner is better than your
scanner". It must be possible to give some unbiased measures of an
antivirus program, such as

Approximately how many viruses does it detect?  Does it detect all the
"important" viruses?  How often is it upgraded?

etc.

Thank you in advance!

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