Oh G-d! Norton...:damn: The system resource hog from hell...just thinking about it...::shudder::

Eeer what? You can actually run windows defender? That's something new for me :rotfl2:. Really I'll see to run it now.

Edit:Oh well it already runs daily automatically

Would recommend Avast for free and Kaspersky if you are going to pay.

Oh dear gods, norton was only worth something back in the dos and win 3.1 era.

I know...that's why I recommended avast (which is what I use now). :up:

The only way to get rid of NORTON completely is to reformat.

Or throw your computer out the window. :har:

Norton has to be the worse case scenario for not starting from scratch when coding. I think the engine is still original from the 80's..... :haha:

useing the free Mcafee thingy that comes from my ISP, and avira, done good sofar...

I'm actually using Microsoft Security Essentials at the moment. :o

And it seems to work fine!

I used to use AVG but it needs its own dedicated CPU core. :nope:

Actually, that's not quite true. In the bad old days, when I eradicated the Beast, you could manually unhook Norton from Windows by editing the registry, removing each line that hijacked the read/write routines and referenced the Norton routines, which NO LONGER EXISTED if you uninstalled. You had to make the registry changes and then uninstall Norton. Was a permanent fix.

Then Norton was taken to court and required to make available a free "Norton removal tool" on their site. Of course they try to keep it as hidden as possible and probably move it around a lot so people can't link to it, but Google knows all and a search for "Norton removal tool" is all it probably takes.

Slimey corporate behavior sucks! Norton is off my list forever as a possible software supplier. They could do whatever they like in the future but my death penalty stands. No more Norton anything on any of my machines.

I vote for Linux. It's the best antivirus system out there. Run Windows in a Virtualbox and you're good to go!

When i tried MSE I get wicked slowdowns. Did a big clean up of main pc like i do once a year - reformat and reinstall XP/Vista dual setup. Decided to try MSE on a clean system but still get the same results. Gets that bad that I can't move the mouse at times. So im just running the free version of Avira atm

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Spammer from Gujarat in India....gone now.