Norton IS killing my CPU speed

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I have not uses Norton for years now but i did not like it and that was back in 96. i have used McAfee from 96-2006 and i think that the make a great Virus scanner but there firewall is not as good as Zonealarm. My dad's computer uses McAfee and it works great ... I use Zonealarm internet security suite and as far as i can tell it runs faster and takes less RAM +CPU.

NOTE TO READER: Mcafee virus scan 07 will not install if you have zonealrm firewall installed. they play nicely together but you have to install then in the correct order.

i had that problem and mcafee said that their firewall was incompatible with zonealarm firewall... THAT IS $%^##$ GREAT GUYS I UNCHECKED THE FIREWALL IN THE INSTALL FILE.. because of this i switched + plus zonealarm gives a 1/2 off loyalty bonus 😀 .
 
I've hated Norton ever since it decided to go no-worky before I had a paper due in just a few minutes. And since Microsoft Office likes to scan whatever document you're trying to open, and it couldn't find the scanner, and it broke. So I had to download OpenOffice and install that as quickly as possible so I could finish my paper and print it off.

And I would hate McAffee, but trying to remove it from my girlfriend's computer when it decided to go no-worky was how we met last year ^_^
 
I have Norton IS and this thing just slowdown my startup as it takes about 10seconds to boot itself up every time the windows load. But I haven't experience no negative impact during gaming, that or I don't notice it. I have tried disabling Norton while playing games and enabled it while playing games and both seems to have the same performance.
 
Use Sygate Personal Firewall 5.6 (is the last freeware release).
For the rest, i use e-Trust Internet Security Suite, which has a very good antivirus, and as a firewall it includes Zone Alarm Pro.
But Sygate PF is waaaay better so i used this as a firewall instead.
 
I've found a disk imaging program that seems to back up everything on the drive you tell it to use, but I haven't had the balls to try re-imaging the drive yet. The program is called Snapshot, and with a BartPE bootable CD and a plugin for .sna re-imaging, it looks ok. I figure I'll make snapshots so that if something goes wrong, I can give it a shot. If it works, great. If it doesn't work, oh well, I can just re-install the OS.

Most of what makes me worried is that I use PowerQuest's BootMagic as a bootloader, which gives me the option to boot into Windows XP or my current Linux distro, Fedora Core 5. I had to use it because for some reason Fedora wouldn't install Grub so that it would go to that instead of NTLDR.

My Raptor has Windows and Apps, a 250GB drive has Data in an NTFS partition and a FAT32 partition with PartitionMagic, and Fedora has a 250GB drive all to itself.
 
Most experienced computer users would agree: avoid Norton software like the plague.

One exception would be Ghost 2003. It's a good app but does want to install some services & system tray bits. Turn them off in msconfig.
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I agree.

Not to change the subject. But real quick dose anyone know any free like ghosting software
 
I can confirm that grub will work with windows XP. Ubuntu Dapper Drake installed OK for me on top of a couple of XP partitions.

A customised windows installer disk (google down nLite if you don't know it already) can take some of the sting out of a reinstall but it's still nice to have disk images. Installing/configuring all your apps can take a while. A good disk imager gets into my top ten list of essential apps.
 
Oh yeah, Ubuntu's grub installation worked great. It was Fedora's that wouldn't work correctly. So, during installation, I told it to install Grub on the disk it was using for itself, installed it, booted into Windows, and told PartitionMagic where to find the OS I just installed. Couldn't get any easier.
 
Isn't it kinda funny how Norton uses up computer resources just like a virus does?

I like Trend Micro housecall. It's an internet based virus scanner that only uses resources when you're scanning.

How did you know that Norton Internet Security is killing your cpu speed? I'm using one along with an 840 and don't notice about that? Hmm very interesting claim.
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Burnsie didn't tell us what else is running on his computer. His computer might have been close to being maxed out before Norton.

I love Trend Micro's housecall. I refuse to use Norton and McAfee after working at Dell for about a year...
 
I personally know of a couple different folks, one a laptop and one a desktop, who had problems with Norton. One tried a fresh install and one tried an upgrade. In both cases, it corrupted the operating system...Windows XP. And, in both cases the damage was so severe that Windows had to be reloaded.
 
Norton antivirus and Internet Security REALLY slowed down my Athlon 64 3200+. When I tested AVG on my rig without Norton and it was back up to speed.
 
That's a good question, I believe there is a version of Norton for XP64 however it's not free (obviously) but other than that I'm not aware of any free AV
 
Thanks for all of the suggestions on the AV/firewall/spyware software. It really helps.

My setup is brand spanking new:

AMD X2 4400+
2 Gb of Mem


So It shouldn't be hogging that much. It noticeably (sp?) slowed down my system, and I just don't appreciate that.

Any other reccomendations?
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Hmmm, this time, your post sounds like you just built and just loaded Norton. Naturally, when Norton AV is first loaded it runs a full system scan, and naturally, this will degrade your system performance until it completes.

Norton was one of the first KILLER apps for Dos and Windows. I guess it still is.

Adware and any free AV are a good combo. You can sign up for free AOL and get free Mcafee scans (and you don't have to use AOL for the virus scans to continue working and upgrading).
 
I've got both Norton Systemworks and Norton Internet Security and have no slowdown from them. Yes, I have a dual core chip which may help in this reguard.

I have noticed in the past that many people don't install the whole package, particularly the "Parental Control", and then it does cause a lot of problems when trying to uninstall it, as it thinks that if you don't install everything, then you're not the administrator or something. That's a pain in the hind end, but once understood, it can be lived with. And for those who like porn and don't want a parental control, simply install it and then turn it off.
 
Blimey, maybe we should email a link to this thread to Norton so they can see what people think of their software :)

And yes, I agree with 99% of this thread - get rid of it and install AVG + Spybot.
 
Thanks for all of the suggestions on the AV/firewall/spyware software. It really helps.

My setup is brand spanking new:

AMD X2 4400+
2 Gb of Mem


So It shouldn't be hogging that much. It noticeably (sp?) slowed down my system, and I just don't appreciate that.

Any other reccomendations?
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Hmmm, this time, your post sounds like you just built and just loaded Norton. Naturally, when Norton AV is first loaded it runs a full system scan, and naturally, this will degrade your system performance until it completes.

Norton was one of the first KILLER apps for Dos and Windows. I guess it still is.

Adware and any free AV are a good combo. You can sign up for free AOL and get free Mcafee scans (and you don't have to use AOL for the virus scans to continue working and upgrading).

AVG (paid) does a full scan everytime I start my system (PentiumD 945 @ 3.4 GHz, 2Gb RAM) and the only way I know it's going is the HDD sound and the little icon in the system tray.

Norton used to be great (I used Norton Desktop for DOS many, many years ago) but Symantec stuffed it.
 
I used Norton IS 2005 and it killed my 600mhz PIII system. Then I upgraded to a Celeron 1.4Ghz, I tried Norton 2006 Antivirus and it was a little faster but still took like half my processor speed.

Now Im getting Conroe but im gonna stick with my NOD32
 
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