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Can I remove Nortan Antivirus

I am in the processing of setting up astaro v7 in my home. I have norton internet security 2006 on all our computers, including 2 computers for the my kids. Once Astaro is up and running, do I still need norton internet security? It would be nice to get Norton off my PCs. With Anti-virus on the firewall instead of the PC, it can't scan my files on the hard drive. Is this a big deal?

--Scott

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0 BrucekConvergent over 17 years ago

I wouldn't get rid of the antivirus on the workstations.. The astaro won't prevent you getting a virus by one of your kids putting in a floppy, USB stick, or CD that has a virus on it.

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0 BrucekConvergent over 17 years ago

I wouldn't get rid of the antivirus on the workstations.. The astaro won't prevent you getting a virus by one of your kids putting in a floppy, USB stick, or CD that has a virus on it.

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0 Mike_H over 17 years ago in reply to BrucekConvergent

Get rid of the bloatware formally known as Norton Internet Security and buy Norton AV. Bruce is right though. Desktop AV is a must
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0 PabloDiablo over 17 years ago in reply to Mike_H

I agree with both post replies. ASG is good for first protection but there are other ways to get infected. My personal experience is that kaspersky is a very good AV and malware protection.
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0 Scott_Klassen over 17 years ago in reply to PabloDiablo

As the others have mentioned, you will want to keep some sort of desktop AV.

It's part of a concept called Defence in Depth. For any necessary part of your security posture, you never want to leave yourself with a single point of failure. Another advantage is that since AV vendors work on their definitions independently, one vendor may protect you from a new threat that another may not be able to find for hours to days.

As an alternative to Norton, I've had good experiences with the free home version of Avast .

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