chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 7/3/04 11:15 AM: > Because the entire Norton suite is notoriously buggy. NAV can slow your > machine to a crawl as well as cause all sorts of freezes and crashes. > Disk Doctor has been known to totally destroy a hard drive during repair > operations. And don't get me started on Norton Crash Maker (er, Crash > Fixer or whatever they called it).
Norton removed the Norton Crash Maker about 5 years ago. It was buggy then, and I didn't run it from the very beginning. I also don't run the Norton DiskLight extension, which puts a disk access indicator in your menu bar. It was buggy, and is unneeded. Otherwise, I have not found that the Norton suite is buggy. I have found it stable. I also haven't found that it slows my Macs. Nor have I found it to destroy a hard drive during a repair. I do make regular backups, of my drive and of my documents, and I prefer to backup before I run Disk Doctor and/or Norton Defrag/Optimizer. I do find that the similar Norton Utilities suite slows down my Win98 PC. So did the product from McAfee, and the predecessor from Network Associates. But I feel that I need to run a continuous antivirus program on the Win98 PC, even if it does slow the machine. Anyway, if your hard drive goes down, and you're in need of an immediate fix, having something around -- Apple's Disk First Aid, Norton Utilities, AlSoft DiskWarrior, or something else -- is helpful. Since this version of Norton Systemworks comes with OS 9.1 as the boot OS in its CD, and since I'm running OS 9.1 as the boot OS on two of my Macs, well then, $9.00 is a good expense to have a bootable emergency disk around. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Roger S. Cohen, President, Cohen International [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rogercohen.com Voice: +1 (845) 358-8936 Fax: +1 (845) 358-8937 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
