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I'm sure someone else will add their knowledge to this thread. As you say, once installed, if you do not find anything not working the way you want, they can both be considered set and forget. The main difference is the added functions of backup and a couple of utilities in As the underlying protections are the same, the performance footprint should be almost identical. IMHO, which product you purchase is partially driven by your own personal desires as to what you want the product to do.

N has the backup and tuneup functions - while NIS does not. I have never run the Registry Cleaner on my N I have backup disabled also as I use another backup program that not only backs up data files, but is also capable of imaging the entire system. I am not really sure of the addtional settings tweaking available with NIS at present. I have not done a setting comparision with the products - but I do remember that being the case from previous versions. Hopefully someone els ewill jump in and add the settings tweakability differences.

I don't really know if i 'need' those things or not - but that's mainly because I don't know how it would benefit me in practice? I just know that I am using my computer everyday for my work - mostly very cpu-intensive tasks, and it's important that my computer runs nicely.

I also don't know regarding the backup thing - if it works nicely and simple then there's a chance I could use it, since I'm doing my backups manually right now and not as often as I want - I'd like to change on that so I get a better and more safe backup plan. I'm currently using Norton but used NIS the previous year.

I did not do a direct comparison of the available settings in each but as far as I can tell N has all the settings found in NIS just "hidden" slightly below the surface and easy enough to get at. I do a lot of tweaking of settings and everything I'm looking for is there in N just slightly frustrating till you figure out where to find some of them. I'm not sure what you'd call 'bad things'. The biggest difference is that with NIS you get much more flexibility.

If you have specific questions that have not been answered please post them and one of us will respond. I'm still a little uncertain about the benefits of the extra configuration possibilities with NIS - mainly because I've never really had to do any changes with my previous antivirus Avast free - so it's hard for me to tell if I would want those extra configurations possibilities with NIS - and rkasse posted before that he could find pretty much all the settings from NIS in too so I don't know really :.

For simple go One thing to point out If you do choose to go with a Norton product, be sure to completely remove Avast before installing Norton. Check the Avast web site for their uninstall utility. If you do not fully remove an antivirus product, you could see conflicts with a new product.

It's going to be installed on a completely new computer, so nothing to uninstall - though maybe I will install it on my old one too as I can get 3 licenses quite cheap :. One other thing, I just read that NIS usually gets updated in the fall whereas gets updated in the spring meaning that there's a gap where NIS will use newer technology - is this true?

Or is it something I shouldn't worry about? While it is true the new version of NIS is released earlier than the new version of N, new technology can bring unexpected surprises that may not have been discovered in BETA testing.

As NIS and N use the same protection engine, this gives N users the advantage of having these surprises addressed before the release of N Please ensure there is no trial security product installed on the new PC. Even if you have a trial of NIS and you are going to install N or vice-versa the trial should be removed prior to installing the new product. Yes, I agree. Just decide if you want or need the extra features in N I'm pretty sure everything else is the same just a different look and feel.

Thanks, I think I will go ahead and get the since it's cheaper, then I can experiment a little with the backup and tuneup features - I can turn off the tuneup feature if I don't want it right? I build the PC myself so there's nothing installed yet apart from Windows and it's sitting offline at the moment - but thanks for the reminder :.

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