I have the Symantec antivirus program that was supplied as a free download by NCSU when I was a student, I think they recently switched to something different but as of February of '08 this is what they were using. Anyway, I graduated in May of '08 and this Symantec antivirus that I got from the school is still kicking and downloading new definitions everyday, will it just continue to work indefinitely or is there an expiration on it?

4/3/2009 1:54:29 AM

i too am curious about this...just wondered about this yesterday actually

4/3/2009 1:55:27 AM

http://oit.ncsu.edu/antivirus

Quote :

"All Symantec products provided by NCSU go end-of-life on June 22, 2009. On that date, support for Symantec antivirus products will end. All users should switch to Trend Micro OfficeScan or Intego VirusBarrier by this date to insure their virus protection remains current."

4/3/2009 2:04:56 AM

god that is lame

4/3/2009 2:05:30 AM

Why exactly is that lame?

4/3/2009 2:47:59 AM

nvm

[Edited on April 3, 2009 at 3:21 AM. Reason : i'll let someone else answer that]

4/3/2009 3:15:45 AM

What about for unmanaged versions?

4/3/2009 3:31:55 AM

When our license expires on June 22, we're turning off our Symantec servers. Un-managed versions, which talk to Symantec's servers directly, may or may not work after that point. We've not tested that, nor are we going to.

Additionally, if you're still running the software, and no longer a student, you're in violation of our license agreement, and should uninstall the software regardless.

4/3/2009 1:32:34 PM

SHAME ON YOU!

4/3/2009 4:21:38 PM

Well it sucks anyway.....i got a virus while it was running. It warned me there was a threat right before the computer begun rebooting repeatedly.

I changed to AVG.

4/3/2009 10:55:21 PM

Yeah, I installed it on about 100 different computers when I was a student. But really, AVG is just as good and free these days.

4/3/2009 11:23:50 PM

I still install NAV9 on Windows computers, that I downloaded from NCSU in 2003, my last year as a student. It still seems to work fine - it's not the latest version, but it still downloads LiveUpdates and virus definitions with no problems.

4/3/2009 11:34:51 PM

that sucks, symantec has served me pretty well.

4/4/2009 12:40:46 AM

The new trendmicro product seems to work fine and it certainly uses less resources. Of course, in all my years of computing, I've never seen an AV program do more than display an icon in the system tray. I guess I've been lucky.

4/4/2009 1:32:52 AM

^ You just haven't been paying attention.

TrendMicro's "Real Time Listener" is a horrendous resource hog. It will consume +90% system resources when you start accessing folders, and if you have large files (like zips, isos, etc) it can hang your system for 15-20 minutes, easy. State government switched to it almost a year ago and it has been downhill ever since.

4/4/2009 1:52:10 AM

Quote :

" URL Blocked The URL that you are attempting to access is a potential security risk. Trend Micro OfficeScan has blocked this URL in keeping with network security policy. URL: http://proxy.org/ Risk Level: High Details: For more information about this URL or to report it to Trend Micro for reclassification,visit http://reclassify.wrs.trendmicro.com."

that was a little annoying

4/4/2009 3:13:53 AM

Quote :

"TrendMicro's "Real Time Listener" is a horrendous resource hog. It will consume +90% system resources when you start accessing folders, and if you have large files (like zips, isos, etc) it can hang your system for 15-20 minutes, easy. State government switched to it almost a year ago and it has been downhill ever since. "

i can agree with that. multiple complaints about that very thing. had to uninstall and use nod32.

4/4/2009 9:07:37 AM