I got a free one year licence for norton internet security 2007 when I bought a new motherboard for my computer, and that's running out next week, and boy do I wish I hadn't bothered to even install it. Anyway I'm looking at nod32... Heard raves about it.

Only thing is, I went onto their site and found two products. Nod32, and Smart Security. So naturally I am in two minds about which one to purchase a license for. Nod is cheaper. But smart security has more features...

All I can tell between the two is, smart security basically is nod32 only with the added benefit of its own firewall and an antispam/spyware system.

Am I right in thinking this or is there more too it?

you'll be sorry to have either one.
i remove it from more computers everyday.
the average user cannot understand how to maintain the complexity of it.

Luckily for me then that I'm not the average user.

Here's Blackspear's tutorial for setting up Nod32 which is relatively painless to follow. It will take about 5 to 10 minutes of your time.

I also recommend you print the web pages so you can work from them.

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/show...

Edit: After you set it all up according to the tutorial, you then save the config file to use when ever you reformat and reinstall Nod32...

Well, thanks. I'm sure if I need it I'll use it. So going back to my original question...

I use Nod 32 only at the moment, as I use the Outpost Pro 4.0 firewall.

When my subscription to that runs out I may give the new Nod 32 Security Suite a run. It has a good firewall and antispyware modules as well.

I know several people that use it and have high praise for it...

Well based on that I figured what the hell and went to buy it. I thought I'd get it on my laptop here with xp pro (which went fine), then based on what some other guy in another forum told me I'd put it on my desktop (which is server 2003). Didn't work... The guy was adamant it would but it doesn't, just says the app is not designed for server os. He was dumbfounded and went to check himself then came back to tell me they upgraded the app version from 2.x to 3.x and the new version no longer works on server 2003 as I had found, but the old one does.

*shrugs* So looks like eset aren't so fantastic anymore afterall. I'm not paying several hundred bucks for a business version licence because I got this server os from work for free to use as a workstation and an internal file server, not as a black hole for my wallet...

Well you had better to get your "work" to get you your AV for free as well then.

Enjoy... 8|

I could do, but then again they use norton enterprise, which is probably just as bad as the regular version... Urg.

I'll just buy another home license for smart security then see if I can get hold of the business edition of the software. Judging from what I needed to do on my laptop it only needs a username and password to log onto the eset servers to download updates, so maybe it doesn't distinguish between a home license and a business license. Maybe. And anyway I am using the os as anyone with xp pro would, for home use, it just happens to be server 2003 instead of xp pro.

Anyway thanks.