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Old 11-23-09, 03:39 PM   #16
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Oh G-d! Norton... The system resource hog from hell...just thinking about it...::shudder::
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Old 11-23-09, 11:49 PM   #17
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At the very lest Avast is at the top three. I run malwarebytes, firewall from the Vista OS and run Windows Defender once a week.

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

Edit:Oh well it already runs daily automatically
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Old 11-24-09, 09:14 AM   #18
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Would recommend Avast for free and Kaspersky if you are going to pay.

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Oh G-d! Norton... The system resource hog from hell...just thinking about it...::shudder::
Oh dear gods, norton was only worth something back in the dos and win 3.1 era.
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Old 11-24-09, 02:38 PM   #19
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I know...that's why I recommended avast (which is what I use now).
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Old 11-24-09, 03:53 PM   #20
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The only way to get rid of NORTON completely is to reformat.

Or throw your computer out the window.
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Old 11-24-09, 05:39 PM   #21
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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.....
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Old 11-24-09, 05:42 PM   #22
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useing the free Mcafee thingy that comes from my ISP, and avira, done good sofar...
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Old 11-24-09, 10:14 PM   #23
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I'm actually using Microsoft Security Essentials at the moment.

And it seems to work fine!

I used to use AVG but it needs its own dedicated CPU core.
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Old 11-25-09, 08:05 AM   #24
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The only way to get rid of NORTON completely is to reformat.

Or throw your computer out the window.
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.
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Old 11-25-09, 08:07 AM   #25
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I vote for Linux. It's the best antivirus system out there. Run Windows in a Virtualbox and you're good to go!
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Old 11-30-09, 01:20 AM   #26
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I'm actually using Microsoft Security Essentials at the moment.

And it seems to work fine!
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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Old 02-15-19, 05:26 AM   #27
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Spammer from Gujarat in India....gone now.
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