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| | Weary of Norton I recently bought an Everex notebook with Vista Home Premium, which included a 90-day free Norton trial. I have had Norton on my older laptop and found that it seems to consume a lot of resources and takes a very long time to load. I would like to find the anti-virus software that's effective but uses the least amount of RAM, has the smallest downloads for updates (I'm stuck on a dial-up) and loads quickly. Please give me your recommendations. Thanks. |
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| | Re: Weary of Norton LewBob wrote: > I recently bought an Everex notebook with Vista Home Premium, which > included a 90-day free Norton trial. I have had Norton on my older > laptop and found that it seems to consume a lot of resources and > takes a very long time to load. > > I would like to find the anti-virus software that's effective but > uses the least amount of RAM, has the smallest downloads for updates > (I'm stuck on a dial-up) and loads quickly. Please give me your > recommendations. Thanks. Like a lot of people I ditched Norton a few years ago and I now use AVG which is free and updates automatically everyday. It loads super-fast compared to NAV and doesn't use the resources NAV uses but one thing you can't do with it is to create Scheduled Scans. Other than that it's working well on XP and Vista. http://www.free.grisoft.com |
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| | Re: Weary of Norton LewBob, the best place for anything Norton is in the bin, not on your PC. In the days of Windows 95/98 Norton was one of the best software applications - even I gave it praise. Since XP, 2003, and now Vista I have found that any Norton software creates more problems than it actually cures. I wouldn't use it and I certainly, now, don't even recommend it. There are plenty of freeware anti virus and firewall application available. AVG is one and Zone Alarm is a good firewall. -- John Barnett MVP Associate Expert Windows - Shell/User Web: http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org Web: http://vistasupport.mvps.org The information in this mail/post is supplied "as is". No warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, is made in relation to the accuracy, reliability or content of this mail/post. The Author shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use of, or inability to use, information or opinions expressed in this mail/post.. "LewBob" <lewisremovethis.mccool@gmail.com> wrote in message news:%23cRlcyXkHHA.3484@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >I recently bought an Everex notebook with Vista Home Premium, which >included a 90-day free Norton trial. I have had Norton on my older laptop >and found that it seems to consume a lot of resources and takes a very long >time to load. > > I would like to find the anti-virus software that's effective but uses the > least amount of RAM, has the smallest downloads for updates (I'm stuck on > a dial-up) and loads quickly. Please give me your recommendations. Thanks. |
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| | Re: Weary of Norton "LewBob" <lewisremovethis.mccool@gmail.com> wrote in message news:%23cRlcyXkHHA.3484@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >I recently bought an Everex notebook with Vista Home Premium, which >included a 90-day free Norton trial. I have had Norton on my older laptop >and found that it seems to consume a lot of resources and takes a very long >time to load. > > I would like to find the anti-virus software that's effective but uses the > least amount of RAM, has the smallest downloads for updates (I'm stuck on > a dial-up) and loads quickly. Please give me your recommendations. Thanks. I am using a dial-up at the moment. Yes, I too had Vista Home Premium with a 60 day free trial of Norton that came with the laptop, that entire chicken-**** Norton Security Suite. As usual for Norton, which it is the same PITA it was back in 2000, I quickly moved to NOD32 the 30 trial version. I have been using NOD32 since 2000 on Win 2K and XP Pro. NOD32 is quick on the scans both it's online scanner and on request scanner, updates have been fast, and it's light on the resources, as usual on Vista, so I purchased it on a two year license. |
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| | Re: Weary of Norton "LewBob" <lewisremovethis.mccool@gmail.com> wrote >I recently bought an Everex notebook with Vista Home Premium, which >included a 90-day free Norton trial. I have had Norton on my older laptop >and found that it seems to consume a lot of resources and takes a very long >time to load. > > I would like to find the anti-virus software that's effective but uses the > least amount of RAM, has the smallest downloads for updates (I'm stuck on > a dial-up) and loads quickly. Please give me your recommendations. Thanks. Avast (free) or NOD32 (not free). -- Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell] |
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| | Re: Weary of Norton "Rock" <Rock@nospam.net> wrote in message news:ej2tLgDlHHA.4628@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > "LewBob" <lewisremovethis.mccool@gmail.com> wrote >>I recently bought an Everex notebook with Vista Home Premium, which >>included a 90-day free Norton trial. I have had Norton on my older laptop >>and found that it seems to consume a lot of resources and takes a very >>long time to load. >> >> I would like to find the anti-virus software that's effective but uses >> the least amount of RAM, has the smallest downloads for updates (I'm >> stuck on a dial-up) and loads quickly. Please give me your >> recommendations. Thanks. > > Avast (free) or NOD32 (not free). > > -- > Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell] Thanks, all, for the suggestions. I have downloaded Avast and will give it a try. First, though, I realize I must uninstall and eradicate Norton. From reading on this group, I conclude it isn't all that easy to get rid of all the Norton hooks. We'll see. Lew |
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| | Re: Weary of Norton "LewBob" wrote <snip> > Thanks, all, for the suggestions. I have downloaded Avast and will give it > a try. First, though, I realize I must uninstall and eradicate Norton. > From reading on this group, I conclude it isn't all that easy to get rid > of all the Norton hooks. We'll see. You're welcome. Good luck with that. -- Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell] |
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| | Re: Weary of Norton Go up to symantic's web site and download their 'norton uninstall' program that cleanly uninstalls all versions of Norton. Works great, not sure why they provide that, but its the only fast sure way to get rid of all traces of all versions of Norton.. K "Rock" <Rock@nospam.net> wrote in message news:eHdsUzElHHA.2552@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > "LewBob" wrote > <snip> > >> Thanks, all, for the suggestions. I have downloaded Avast and will give >> it a try. First, though, I realize I must uninstall and eradicate Norton. >> From reading on this group, I conclude it isn't all that easy to get rid >> of all the Norton hooks. We'll see. > > You're welcome. Good luck with that. > > -- > Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell] |
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| | Re: Weary of Norton On Fri, 11 May 2007 22:01:37 -0700, "K" <K@spam.net> wrote: >Go up to symantic's web site and download their 'norton uninstall' program >that cleanly uninstalls all versions of Norton. Works great, not sure why >they provide that, but its the only fast sure way to get rid of all traces >of all versions of Norton.. Because their own cr*p prevents aborted/botched Symantec installs from completing :^) > >K > >"Rock" <Rock@nospam.net> wrote in message >news:eHdsUzElHHA.2552@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... |
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