Posted by: wfaulk
Norton - 30/06/2004 02:59
I got a new laptop and it has a bunch of stuff on it, including a bunch of Norton crud. I already don't like it, but I wanted to get some feedback on it before I killed it all.
The stuff I see is Norton Antivirus and Norton Internet Security. It's the IS that's bothering me, but the AV is only a three month trial. Should I just delete them both?
Posted by: Laura
Re: Norton - 30/06/2004 03:23
I like Norton Antivirus but I hated the Internet Security very much. I hated it so much that I went out and bought a copy of Antivirus because I couldn't find a way to get it to work without the rest of the IS stuff since the virsion I had all came together. I've got an older computer (a P3 550) and it just bogged it down way too much.
Posted by: matthew_k
Re: Norton - 30/06/2004 04:17
Yup. Ditch the firewall component immediatly and pray the uninstall function works. It's slow and buggy, and every once in a while it will totaly hose all windows networking on install.
Norton antivirus however, is a good thing in my book. I like the corporate version my school has a site liscense for a lot better than the user edition, but I assume it's dificult to buy as an individual.
Matthew
Posted by: JBjorgen
Re: Norton - 30/06/2004 11:56
As if you need someone else to say it...I agree...ditch the IS and keep the AV.
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: Norton - 01/07/2004 14:08
FWIW, removing IS also removed AV, so there you go. Guess I'll be installing AVG again.
Posted by: ashmoore
Re: Norton - 01/07/2004 14:34
unfortunatley I agree with the killing of IS.
The sad part is that it used to be ATGuard, which was a very cool program and the first decent personal firewall and ad blocker.
Bits of it still remain in IS but Symantec really screwed it up.
Posted by: DLF
Re: Norton - 01/07/2004 15:02
Curiosity: Why does nobody here seem to like McAfee Enterprise 7.x?
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: Norton - 01/07/2004 15:38
The last time I used McAfee it had the equivalent effect of replacing the CPU with one one-third the speed and replacing the hard drive with something made from tree bark and knives.
Posted by: DLF
Re: Norton - 01/07/2004 16:00
That's funny, because that was my experience (albeit, many years ago) with Norton AV. Nowadays all I notice re: performance is the on-access "shield" slows down boot-up. But compared to crap like the Palm HotSync Manager and the latest ZoneAlarm, it's still trivial.
Posted by: Ezekiel
Re: Norton - 01/07/2004 19:44
Yeah, nothing like goofing with IDE or chipset drivers just for grins. [shudder]
I use a registry patch that limits McAfee to 30% of CPU for any scan task, it's pretty effective and can post it if needed. I've used on 2k & XP boxes.
-Zeke