Richard,
Please forgive the late response.
On other computers I had been using Norton. Going back a bit, to the days
of DOS and Win3.1, Norton had a good product. Then Symantec got their
hands on it and it has been going to pot in a hurry! Talk about a system
hog! Lateley, Symantec seems to have been listening to some of the
complaints because Norton 360 is not in your face as much as System Works
but it still hurts system performance.
The other thing is not even Symantec can *completely* remove System Works!
I tried, first using the Windows Add Remove Programs utility and thinking
that was it. Wrong! I kept getting dialogs popping up saying the Symantec
Updater was trying to run but could not find file whatever (I can't remember
the specifics of the filename). I went to the Symantec web presence and
discovered the Symantec Removal Tool to get rid of the dregs the Add Remove
utility had left behind. Even that didn't completly cleanse the system.
The upshot of all this is, I had to save all my data and reformat the HD to
FINALLY get rid of all the detritus left over from Symantec!
This computer, a homebrew job, will not see Symantec at all. If necessary,
I shall depend upon the firewall built into the mainboard and the one in the
router. Right now, I'm using Live OneCare. So far, there does not seem to
be such a huge performance hit as there was with Symantec. However, the
firewall blocker gets a bit annoying when you first install a new program
because, of course, the first thing a new program wants to do is "call home"
to see if there are any updates and the firewall detects this (a good thing,
I suppose).
The other pieces of OneCare seem to work OK. Of course, when the defragger
is running, you are going to see some slow down, but that goes away when the
defragger finishes (the time required depends upon the size of your HD(s)
and how much data you have).
Am I satisfied with OneCare? The jury is still out. I can't really answer
that because I have not been using it long enough.
Regards,
Turner
"Richard Thompson" <richard@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Ok, i've always believed that if something seems too good to be true it
> generally is too good to be true.
>
> After reading about OneCare and trying out the free online web scanner I
> was pleasantly surprised. I would like to know, from the people out there
> running Vista with scores of below 4 on their performance rating system,
> what OneCare does to their systems?
>
> Traditionally antivirus has had a major affect on system performance
> especially when combined with spyware detection, adware detection,
> firewall, etc. Now that said obviously Microsoft know how their OS works
> and would have developed something which is good for their OS, but I want
> to know what the community says AND is it really worth the 38 quid the
> vendors want for it?
>
> Kind regards
> Richard
>
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