No more Norton Anti-virus!!!

hrd2imgn
hrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,929
edited April 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
I have finally purged my computer of Norton system works in favor of Avira...wow. My computer starts up faster, actaully shuts down without memory errors, and is still virus free.

Bye bye system hog norton
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  • PatrickBateman
    PatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    welcome to 2003 haha

    Toss Norton in the trash next to Mcrappee antivirus.
    I was a big fan of AVG antivirus for the past few years but now it seems to be going the way of all the other bigger a-v's.

    nod32, Avira, and Avast FTW

    I have solved at least a handfull of customers PC's just by getting rid of Norton AV
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  • PJPixie
    PJPixie Posts: 3,026
    Wow, I really need to talk to you guys. I've only had my computer for about 4 months and I already seem to be having issues.
    HELP!
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  • in_hiding79
    in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    This Is All You Need For Your PC.......

    Kaspersky Anti-virus
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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    PatrickBateman wrote:
    welcome to 2003 haha

    Toss Norton in the trash next to Mcrappee antivirus.
    I was a big fan of AVG antivirus for the past few years but now it seems to be going the way of all the other bigger a-v's.

    nod32, Avira, and Avast FTW

    I have solved at least a handfull of customers PC's just by getting rid of Norton AV



    so what DO you reccommend?
    i am very curious. my husband is the resident *computer expert* in our home, and he really does know what he's doing. however, as it is not his profession...we do get all new reccommendations from friends and such. i had turned him onto mozilla from reading about it here. :) he loves it! he has complained about what a hog norton is....so if not this avira, what else? where does one get avira? or any other program reccommended? open to any/all suggestions, and appreciate links and/or just being told where one may find em. preferably free :D...but low-cost is good too. :p
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  • PJPixie
    PJPixie Posts: 3,026
    decides2dream wrote:
    so what DO you reccommend?
    i am very curious. my husband is the resident *computer expert* in our home, and he really does know what he's doing. however, as it is not his profession...we do get all new reccommendations from friends and such. i had turned him onto mozilla from reading about it here. :) he loves it! he has complained about what a hog norton is....so if not this avira, what else? where does one get avira? or any other program reccommended? open to any/all suggestions, and appreciate links and/or just being told where one may find em. preferably free :D...but low-cost is good too. :p

    thanks D2D, i need these answers too.......and.........free works best for me :D
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  • dawng
    dawng Posts: 644
    NOD32 works really well. I finished switching our company over last year and we've had a great experience (aka no viruses). I've switched my personal computer over as well and it's great. Much quicker boot, updates are quiet and don't take over all my computer resources. Also cheaper. Here's a link to Eset's NOD32:
    http://www.eset.com/

    You can download a trial for first 30 days, then it's $40 per year.

    You'll want to uninstall Norton (or any other antivirus) before you install NOD32.
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  • sponger
    sponger Posts: 3,159
    I run norton 2008 firewall & anti-virus on a computer I bought in 2001 with no slowness issues. It has to do with turning off a lot of stuff that would normally run in the background, but is not needed.

    Auto-update is a big system hog. Turn that off and you should see a big difference.
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  • Allie
    Allie Posts: 2,908
    I have a friend who is a network engineer who recommended Panda
    I haven't had a problem since I"ve used it
    I lost my hard drive twice with Norton
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  • in_hiding79
    in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    sponger wrote:
    Auto-update is a big system hog. Turn that off and you should see a big difference.

    :eek:


    Actually NO! You have a bigger chance of someone exploiting your machine! Kaspersky, highest detection rate.....slaps around the others...
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • nowayimfaithfull
    nowayimfaithfull Posts: 2,051
    thanks for the info

    makes sense
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  • Swan
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  • sponger
    sponger Posts: 3,159
    in_hiding79 wrote:
    :eek:


    Actually NO! You have a bigger chance of someone exploiting your machine! Kaspersky, highest detection rate.....slaps around the others...


    Just remember to manually update every so often and there's no difference.

    Norton icons in the tray also take up a lot of resources. Turning those off made a huge difference.
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    3 computers - no antivirus, spyware or firewall software installed on any of them....and no probs at all, ever.....:)
  • in_hiding79
    in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    sponger wrote:
    Just remember to manually update every so often and there's no difference.

    Norton icons in the tray also take up a lot of resources. Turning those off made a huge difference.
    No, depending on people "manually" updating their system is how we get botnets installed on machines and drones chunking out spam by the bulk load because they have a rouge SMTP server running on their machines. Why do you say? BECAUSE PEOPLE WON'T UPDATE THEIR MACHINES ON A REGULAR BASIS. Instead of installing that bloatware junk called Norton (System Works is the absolute WORST) or McAfee, you're better off leaving Windows updates turned on and installing REAL AV software like Kaspersky.


    With that being said....
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • Slip Kid
    Slip Kid Posts: 1,175
    "whistles"

    love OS X.... none of that shit
    I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
  • in_hiding79
    in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    Slip Kid wrote:
    "whistles"

    love OS X.... none of that shit



    True, it is GREAT!! :)
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • Slip Kid
    Slip Kid Posts: 1,175
    in_hiding79 wrote:
    True, it is GREAT!! :)

    isn't it?

    I got so damn sick of Windows and everything that went with it.
    I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Slip Kid wrote:
    "whistles"

    love OS X.... none of that shit


    true :)

    i love my macbook pro.....to able to have windows for work is great :D
  • vedder_soup
    vedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    i have been norton free for a very long time!
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  • Slip Kid
    Slip Kid Posts: 1,175
    cutback wrote:
    true :)

    i love my macbook pro.....to able to have windows for work is great :D

    I've tried installing Windows on my MBP,.. it didn't feel right. I go with OS X and openSUSE
    I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.

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