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| Thread ID: 79490 | 2007-05-21 21:14:00 | If you still think Norton AV is good... | Strommer (42) | Press F1 |
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| 551847 | 2007-05-23 11:13:00 | One always hears complaints from those who moan a lot about things they neither know about or understand. How many people that are complaining about things are actually running them but repeating stories from others. Usually those that do not know what they are doing. People that are happy with the software usually dont say anything and that is why you dont hear from them. You will find that many of us have done or currently work in the industry and spend hours "repairing" the damage done from various Norton installs, The damage can range from performance (widespread) to complete and utter destruction of the Windows install, Past the point that recovery (bar slaving the drive and dragging off the personal data) is possible. People that are happy with the software simply know no better so we don't hear from them. If your happy with losing 25 percent of your systems capabilities to an app that has integrated itself so deeply that if it breaks it takes down your PC then fine, That doesn't make you wise. Especially has even ignoring all the negatives associated with Norton's, It still blows goats as an anti-virus. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 551848 | 2007-05-23 11:22:00 | :confused: "blows goats"??? That's a new one for me, but I know whatyamean. :lol: |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 551849 | 2007-05-23 11:25:00 | pressf1.co.nz pressf1.co.nz :thumbs: |
Metla (12) | ||
| 551850 | 2007-05-23 12:26:00 | You will find that many of us have done or currently work in the industry and spend hours "repairing" the damage done from various Norton installs, The damage can range from performance (widespread) to complete and utter destruction of the Windows install, Past the point that recovery (bar slaving the drive and dragging off the personal data) is possible. People that are happy with the software simply know no better so we don't hear from them. If your happy with losing 25 percent of your systems capabilities to an app that has integrated itself so deeply that if it breaks it takes down your PC then fine, That doesn't make you wise. Especially has even ignoring all the negatives associated with Norton's, It still blows goats as an anti-virus. I have had my computer ruined to the point of reinstalling windows several times with NAV 2002, I run NIS 2005 now and I haven't had the same problems yet - It must be getting better somehow, though I can't deny that it can be very good at ruining itself and windows very well. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 551851 | 2007-05-23 13:48:00 | i dont even use antivirus anymore, i never ever got a virus while i had av, so why bother lol, no lag from stupid av anymore, i used to use norton, but say that bright side and got rid of it before anything happend xD | Codex (3761) | ||
| 551852 | 2007-05-23 14:37:00 | Whatever spin you want to put on it, whatever put down you want to apply to the people that diss NAV, the fact, yes FACT (see it's true), is that NAV is a steaming great pile of pestiferous effluent, that also blows goats, allegedly, though I'm sure that's true too, because anything that sucks balls is bound to be capable of blowing goats. | Murray P (44) | ||
| 551853 | 2007-05-23 23:28:00 | Whatever spin you want to put on it, whatever put down you want to apply to the people that diss NAV, the fact, yes FACT (see it's true), is that NAV is a steaming great pile of pestiferous effluent, that also blows goats, allegedly, though I'm sure that's true too, because anything that sucks balls is bound to be capable of blowing goats. Amen Brother. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 551854 | 2007-05-23 23:42:00 | You will find that many of us have done or currently work in the industry and spend hours "repairing" the damage done from various Norton installs, The damage can range from performance (widespread) to complete and utter destruction of the Windows install, Past the point that recovery (bar slaving the drive and dragging off the personal data) is possible. People that are happy with the software simply know no better so we don't hear from them. If your happy with losing 25 percent of your systems capabilities to an app that has integrated itself so deeply that if it breaks it takes down your PC then fine, That doesn't make you wise. Especially has even ignoring all the negatives associated with Norton's, It still blows goats as an anti-virus. You are exactly right. I am an IT Tecnician, and have spent far too much time fixing the effects of bad norton installs, and even good norton installs, if there is such a thing. norton is defective as an anti-virus software, it is more like ally-virus. I have seen it tell you, "you've got a virus on your pc!!!!! I cannot quarntine it!!!!!!" what is an anti virus for? AVG never has any issues. and pay $78 for a TWO year subscription to avg anti malware rather than $90 for a ONE year subscription to nortons, and you are getting something that uses 1/8th of the system resourses norton uses, doesn't cause popups, doesnt install stuff without asking you, the update actually works, and it will REMOVE your viruses AND spyware. just take out the paying and the spyware part for AVG free. it works. not quite as well as NOD32, but for free... its millions of light years ahead of nortons. Somebody said earlier in this thread that one of the reasons people (a major reason) buy nortons is a trial comes with a new PC, and when the trial expires they cannot uninstall nortons properly, and/or cannot install any other a/v software. Nortons is the worlds most expencive spyware. Next to vista that is :p *just kidding* I find nortons uses about 120MB of ram idling, and up to twice that scanning. Avg free? about 40MB, NOD32? about 30MB. And when nortons is scanning ofen the cpu will be locked at 100%, so your pc is pretty much incapable of scanning. when somebody rings up and says my pc is slow, the first two questions are: Do you have nortons installed? and Do you have Kodak easy-share installed? remove both of those, and your pc will run almost like new. or at least it will seem like it. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 551855 | 2007-05-24 03:33:00 | oh no, not Kodak easy-share - 9 out of 10 PC's that i have had to repair that had Some form of norton antivirus\internet security ALSO had Kodak Easy share running too :badpc: | MAC_H8ER (5897) | ||
| 551856 | 2007-05-24 05:36:00 | Old news I know, but I remove Norton AV and its associated dungware from more computers than I care to think about. For the non-believers in this thread, think about this: Customer calls me up because their PC is sluggish or won't respond at all. I turn up to inspect it, Norton is happily sitting there reporting that everything is perfectly OK. I load my own AV on the machine and within a few seconds it's pinged off dozens of viruses, trojans and other nasty things. So much for Norton. |
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