On 18/09/2006, at 10:18 AM, Cedric Meyerowitz wrote:
I have used Norton's for 10 years. It has always kept my PC safe.
Has at
times saved me hours of heart ache. I know a lot of so called
experts hate
Nortons. HCN hates Nortons as you mis disable it to install or
upgrade MDS
&/or Practsoft, yet other Medical softwatre Vendors find Nortons
doesn't
interfere with there product.
So I will continue using Nortons.
10 years ago Norton's system tools were quite essential - they added
for example a decent defragmenter (which Windows still doesn't have
out of the box). Then Symantec came along and turned it into
bloatware (sadly they've done the same thing to Ghost lately). I'd
rate the current Norton's as close to number 1 of the most horrid
pieces of software of all time.
Although I don't need AV for 90% of my computers, the one I use for
the rest uses hardly any resources (Norton's AV uses around 20% when
working well, which it generally doesn't do for long, Internet
Security uses even more), and stays *completely* out of my way until
it finds an infected file.
I can't count the number of times I have been called out to clean a
virus that a current Norton's missed. It's not alone - McAfee is
almost as bad.
If you've used Norton's for ten years you don't have anything to
compare it with. Next time your renewal is due, humour me and
download a NOD32 evaluation from www.nod32.com.au You'll quickly
discover what's wrong with Norton's and thank me retrospectively.
Peter.
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