Non-slugish AV programs?

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On Thu, 26 May 2005, Capt Bob wrote:

> Norton is the top seller because they make deals with the PC companies
> like Dell to install their bloatware on everyone's machine, whether
> you want it nor not. A friend of mine wanted to buy a PC from Dell a
> year ago, and they would not sell it to him unless they installed
> Norton. He wound up building his own, because of that.
>
> I finally got rid of Norton this month and replaced it with Trend
> Micro's PcCillin and my Gaming PC is running much better. The updates
> that PcCillin gets are much more frequent that Norton, and the program
> is as smooth as silk. The biggest hassle, was uninstalling Norton.
> It is like trying to get rid of Poison Ivy.

When I uninstalled Norton 2000 last week (which included getting rid of
LiveUpdate and LiveReq) it wasn't as bad as I was afriad it might be. I
used the included uninstaller, then ran rnav2003.exe, and betwen those
two, it got rid of enuf of it that there is absolutely no obvious sign of
it anymore, tho there may be some entries in the registry. If there are,
they aren't causing any problems so I'm leaving the registry well enuf
alone. AVG installed fine and is running fine and not conflicting with
anything. knock wood... .

Marilyn B.

 

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On Wed, 25 May 2005, Paul Knudsen wrote:

> On Wed, 25 May 2005 15:37:57 -0400, "PaulT" <Yahoo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >My McAfee AV that came with my Dell 8400 is nearing the end of the free
> >trial period and really not sure if I want to subscribe to it, I was always
> >a big fan of Nortons but have read recently Nortons seems to slow down PCs.
> >Any recommendations here on what would be a good anti virus program that you
> >can count on to catch viruses yet not slow down your computer.. A while back
> >someone recommended one that was actually free but for the life of me I
> >cannot remember the name... Memory is the first thing to go when getting old
> >lol....
> >
> AVG is the free one. I use it with no problems. In fact I like it so
> much I think I'll buy it. But all AV's will use some system
> resources. As to whether one uses more than another I can't answer.

With NAV 2000 installed, upon a fresh boot-up I had 91% free resources.
When I disabled the e-mail scanner prior to uninstalling NAV, they went up
to 95% and stayed at that after the uninstall. With AVG installed, they
are back to 91%, so I think that's pretty reasonable.

Marilyn B.

 

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Agreed. Never a single problem with AVG Free. Norton however has gotten
progressively worse over the last couple of versions. It is so bloated and
installs files EVERYWHERE. A good example: customer was having problems
installing NIS 2005. He brought it to me and I proceeded to install and
uninstall it countless times. Every time I installed it there was a
different problem or error. When you uninstall it, it does not even remove
files from several locations. A few times when I installed it (after
manually deleting files and registry entries) and had problems, it would not
let me uninstall it. I even found a tool from Symantec called SymNRT.exe.
Even it didn't remove all the files. I finally got it working, but it took
up so much overhead he started to get buffer underrun errors when burning
cd's (8x drive, no burnproof) when it worked fine before. I had him use
msconfig to disable Norton and it burned fine. He ended up buying a new CDRW
that solved that problem. Sometimes I wish I had Norton Anti-Norton.


"S.Lewis" <stew1960@cover.bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> "Tweek" <shawnwingetNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> AVG has been nothing but excellent in my experience. It will even catch
>> some spyware that tries to install via active-x controls. It catches
>> quite a few things that norton overlooks.
>>
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> Frequent and small automatic updates, email scanning up and down,
> minimally invasive real-time protection and scan scheduling.
>
> What's not to like.
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> Stew
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