Rogers Cable today announced that the security suite provided to its Hi-Speed Internet customers will now include Symantec's Norton AntiVirus and
Norton Personal Firewall.

The security suite of sofware also includes Anti-Spyware software, a pop-up Blocker, Parental Controls, and eMail scanning.

The suite is available to all Rogers internet customers at no additional charge.

Click here (http://promo.yahoo.com/rogers/yop_learnmore.html) and you will be able to download an application that allows you to select what parts of the suite you want.

Note that you must have IE 6.0 or higher to download and install.

Too bad I hate Norton products for their system resource hogging.

I have found most anti-virus products pretty resource intensive (although I agree that Norton is among the worst) hence why I like the dual core CPU's.

I can still be working while the anti-virus is doing a full scan in the background

That is probably one of the best examples of what a dual core CPU brings to a PC. I have always hated doing full system scans because of the retardation in system performance. I have them setup for off-times but when funky things start happening I like to do a real-time scan which prevents me from doing anything else.

I think I need to upgrade.

Is NAV only used to scan email or will the Rogers version allow you to do full system scans as well ?

I believe it is the full Norton Anti Virus.

So has anyone installed the Norton AV suite? Does it work, are there any problems?

It's basically the same **** as the boxed version, very heavy on resources. It's been like that for years and I know plenty of people who went elsewhere for their anti-malware needs because of that.

I only have a P3 600, 256megs, Win98SE, Rogers cable ultra lite. I am also not of the computer generation so I like software that runs easily. I agree that Norton has always run slow, a resource hog, so when I got the notice from Rogers, I thought about it for a moment, but I now have a free configuration that works well for me consisting of AVG free (I almost have to beg for an email), AdAware free personal, Spyware Blaster, Crap Cleaner, Hijack This + perhaps the key is Firefox 1.5.0.6 as my main browser. All theseprograms run fairly quickly on my slower computer.

I hadn't upgraded and the existing Computer Associates anti-Virus s/w suddenly stopped working about a week ago - was that an intended consequence of the switch Rogers made?

You have to download and install the software from Rogers so your problem would be independent of this.

I hadn't upgraded and the existing Computer Associates anti-Virus s/w suddenly stopped working about a week ago - was that an intended consequence of the switch Rogers made?
Which version of CA AV are you using?

CA ended support for certain versions of their AV product recently. It's possible that's what happened with yours.

If you want an antivirus program that actually works well, get either AntiVir
or Avast!. They are free.

Happy trailz,

The Rogers Yahoo! Online Protection that they released recently does include Norton Internet Security. Yes, it's a resource hog but at the same time for the price of free it does the job for the average user. I run a 2.4 Ghz P4 with a 256 MB video card and 1024 MB of RAM and my test run on it was fine. I uninstalled it though, we offer something similar through my work so I always try it out on my own PC to see how the affects are.

I've been runing it for a few weeks and it seems fine. I don't use the firewall software as I have a router.

The Rogers Yahoo! Online Protection that they released recently does include Norton Internet Security. Yes, it's a resource hog but at the same time for the price of free it does the job for the average user.
It's not really free. Symantec is pulling a Microsoft here. Rather than going to the trouble of selling software direct to the public, they sell it to Rogers who offer it "free" to all their customers, just like Dell offers Windows XP "free" to the general public when they buy a Dell. You still pay for it, but the cost gets buried as part of your internet invoice, rather than being out in the open.

That's part of why Rogers is approx $50/month for internet, while ADSL providers come in at $29.95 month.

I switched to NOD32 by eset.com when Rogers switched over to Norton. Pretty lean on the resource utilization compared to the bloatware Norton and McAfee offer these days.

The internet security is very important for the safty of your computer while using internet. The internet must be secure because we do most of our banking online, and some people do shoping online as well. Therefore you should have any sort of protection on your computer which will help you to have secure internet banking or shoping.

WARNING:
Rogers has just announced an free "upgrade" to their internet security suite. DO NOT INSTALL IT. I repeat DO NOT INSTALL IT. It is also a third party package and it, to be blunt, is a D.O.G. It will cause your system to frequently freeze, crash, and all sorts of other wonderful things. It is an absolute nightmare.

I am an IT Administrator and simply assumed that this was an update to the Nortown Antivirus Suite that they were supplying and which was working just fine on our 'high power' workstations and laptops. NOT SO. This is a new package that is supplied by an obscure company and is so terrible as to warrant this warning. BE WARNED.

I am about to attempt removing it from my system and have only mild hopes that this can be accomplished without great difficulty.

Our laptops, as they have been upgraded, have suffered from every malady under the sun that you can possibly imagine, to the extent that they are virtually unusable. If it were one machine I would chalk it up to something else, but the finger points squarely at the new software package, WHICH IS NOT AN UPGRADE AT ALL BUT PROBABLY ROGERS WAY OF SAVING A FEW BUCKS.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

Thread here about it already.

http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=107435