Norton IS killing my CPU speed

[SEALBoy]

I had avast free edition and it was pretty streamlined and good... and it ran on my vista rc1. I removed it when i upgraded to vista rc1 build 5728, and i'm thinking of installing it again, but i want to know what the difference between norton antivirus and symantec corporate edition is. Is the corporate edition really better and more streamlined? And how does its quality of virus detection hold up?

 

[ches111]

Not sure (looking now) buuuut,

Rumor has it that Norton is using Crystal Reports as the backend for their virus database.

Crystal is WELL known for being a resource hog all by itself. Add to that the rest of the Hueristic checks being done and the folks using it are lucky anyone can get anything done 😀

 

[ches111]

That was fun,

One submit = two posts....

That was a pretty long hiccup.....

 

[Granite3]

Norton is bloatware. Get rid of it and use the AVG Free Edition. I use it at home and I'm 95% satisfied.

Amen bro, the norton and most of the other pay for anti virs are huge system hogs. Really noticeable on some lower powered portables.

AVG even found a backdoor trojan on my system when I kicked macafee to the curb and went freeware.

Thanks AVG.

 

[Slobogob]

Friends don´t let friends use Norton.

Really.

 

[slim142]

110% Agree, Totally True

 

[yourmothersanastronaut]

Friends don´t let friends use Norton.

Really.

Post of the day. Have a cookie. You earned it.

 

[SEALBoy]

OK fine I know Norton sucks... but the Corporate seems to use less resources. Anyways... I guess I'll avoid it just in case. Which brings me to my second question: I'm thinking of getting avast professional edition or AVG Free. Any advice on which is better? I'm particularly interested in real-time protection. Thanks.

Oh yea.. it has to run on Vista RC1. I know that avast does.

 

[Slobogob]

Friends don´t let friends use Norton.

Really.

Post of the day. Have a cookie. You earned it.

Thanks.

The sad thing is, the average computer illiterate people still buy it - even if i say they shouldn´t. There´s always some software pimp lurking in some backwater bitshop that hooks them up. And getting the victims clean again is a terrible duty...