Quote: Originally Posted by
locoeng 
Quote: Originally Posted by
Chappy it's their bloat and resource usage that irks everyone...that and the fact that their uninstall routines are notoriously horrible for removing Symantec and Norton items...and that's not by accident either. I have found over 85 Symantec objects left on a machine (XP Pro SP2) after the uninstaller has run. You have to use a secondary tool to remove any of those others, it's not readily available to regular users, and that's just unacceptable IMO. And it STILL doesn't remove everything...
The exact reason I quit using them years ago...I find a lot of comfort in the free guys without the accompanying BS.
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Hi loceng
You're in a very large and rather unruly group there my friend! I do have to say that Symantec is actually a very good scanner and decent heuristics engine, but their recent reputaion (deservedly so too) for bloat, resource usage, and leftovers after uninstalling are just completely unnecessary and unwanted. Most other good scanners have small footprints and lower resource usage, Symantec needs to learn from this but they have such a large OEM base still, I think they just don't care.