On Jan 18, 8:40*pm, Higgs Boson wrote:
On Jan 18, 6:15*pm, "HeyBub" wrote:



Tony Hwang wrote:

Hey!!! A kindred spirit???
Norton USED to be the best you could get. Norton Utilities was the
best disk editor, back when Peter Norton WAS Norton.The early Norton
AntiVirus was precedent setting.
But today there are so many products that are SO MUCH better than
Norton's offering - particularly in how little they interfere with
the real business of "computing"
Norton products today just get in the way of everything, consuming
resources in prodigious ammounts.
Hi,
That is what you are saying.
If you are an expert on low language(machine code) You can do anything
you want. Norton stuff is nothing but memory hogger. It also snoops on
your system.

It's more than that: Norton is the barnacle of the software world!

After "Uninstalling" you have to download Symantec's Sooper-Sekret removal
tool to chip out the stuff the uninstall routine didn't get. Then you have
to manually scan the registry to snip out anything involving "Norton" or
"Symantec."

OMG!!



You're pretty clean at that point and can install the free Microsoft
Security Essentials or the anti-virus of your choice.

Is it good? *I'm suspicious of anything free, or indeed anything from
Microsoft.



Still, there are those who go to all the trouble to purge their system of
Norton, then install McAffee (because it was free from their ISP).

Ewwww....Ihad always been told that Norton was a hog, so when my
renewal date comes up pretty soon, does the NG advise me to not
renew? *And instead
install WHAT??!! *(Not McAfee -- I had trouble with them long ago).

Will I get 3,000 different recommendations, or is there concensus on
one or two outstanding programs that do as good a job while eating
fewer electrons? KISS.

As another poster on this thread hath vouchsafed:

There are simple virus protection programs out there that DO work and
do not assume, like Norton does, that you are an absolute idiot and
will take no responsibility for your actions on the net or elsewhere.

Well...."absolute" maybe not, but....

HB

I run Avast Free with FF sandboxed (XP SP3)...it works for me!