On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Evan Brastow <[email protected]> wrote: > Symantec Internet Security 2009 came out on top because of its > scanning speed and small size ...
Symantec has been advertising heavily that they supposedly completely overhauled and rewrote the scan engine for the 2009 Norton release. It's now supposed to have a small memory footprint and low CPU impact -- smaller and faster. As you say, some supposedly independent reviews have corroborated this. I've actually got a copy of Norton '09 on order to see what it's like; I'll let the list know my first-hand experiences. Symantec does have the resources to just throw dollars at the problem, so maybe they pulled this off. The downside is, to the best of my knowledge, none of these improvements have yet made their way over to the Corporate Edition side of the house. I don't know if there are plans to do so or not. About six months back (I think it was), I got an email form letter that was from the Symantec CEO's office, saying how important customers were and what Symantec was doing to improve things. Reading between the lines, they must have been hemorrhaging customers due to problems like bloat, lousy customer service, and lousy tech support. Who knows, maybe they'll actually turn the company around. More to the good if so. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
