PL4YD34D Posted March 17, 2006 Posted March 17, 2006 just a 'quick' rant. Norton Internet Security and Anti-Virus. yeah its damned secure, it slows down your rig so much you cant get on the net, thats great security. no one can attack your machine if you cant even log on! whats wrong with the programmers who make this thing. its the largest security and av package in the world so they have plenty money to work out how to get it to integrate with your system without - a. locking it up and b. slowing it to a crawl. i mean its been out for years and STILL no one has sorted it out. example, my 3d05 score with a fresh install of xp and all my OCin done was 11,490. with Norton installed and running that drops to 11,124. 400 points!!!!!! thats an awesome resource hog. and now, well its the final straw now, the system scan which i schedule to run once a month, has popped up and (for the second month running) crashed, crashed my machine, refused to shutdown even with a task manager forced shutdown, and required me to reset!!!!!!!!!!! :mad: :sad: so, i reset. then i think, i wonder if norton is the reason ive been getting long shutdown times? so i reinstall it. reinstalls fine and updates no probs. then i try a windows update. "sorry, one or more windows elements are not registered or could not be verified, updates unavailable" WTF!!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: this things going in the bin, no wait, the furnace, via my sledgehammer. so to finish, does anyone have any norton grievances they want to share? and finally, does anyone know what the hecks up with my windows updates? when i click on "express" or try custom update download, that line above is the only feedback i get from the update site plus a click button that says "click to fix this" but just cycles me back to the same page and error message. if you can help i would be really thankful. next stop, norton sacrificial chamber. muwhahahaha. /rant Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyMon Posted March 17, 2006 Posted March 17, 2006 Yeah, its overhead been getting worse every year. I finally dumped it and am using ZoneAlarm Security Suite. So far so good... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FZ1 Posted March 17, 2006 Posted March 17, 2006 If you can, get the corporate edition. Much less of a resource hog and works great. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweak50 Posted March 17, 2006 Posted March 17, 2006 I hated norton until i got the corporate edition. The resource overhead difference is huge. Right now on my system its only taking up 6900. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CopyNinjaKakash Posted March 17, 2006 Posted March 17, 2006 Norton is bad in the first place all my AV and anti spyware stuff is free! AVG, spybot SD, ad-aware, zone alarm, ive never had any problems on this computer... at least that i know of hehehehe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Milkshake Posted March 17, 2006 Posted March 17, 2006 I hate norton, made me quit anti-virus programs all together. Now I have no slowdowns Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PL4YD34D Posted March 17, 2006 Posted March 17, 2006 If you can, get the corporate edition. Much less of a resource hog and works great. is this true? that'd be cool. i will look into this further. continue regailing me with your norton hatred everyone , its making me feel better Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyv Posted March 18, 2006 Posted March 18, 2006 F NORTON lol get kaspersky.... then after u update it scan then disable the service and startup of it.... Wont use a single resource.. then every month re-enable it and update real quick then scan..this is what i do plus kaspersky finds stuff that norton,adaware,AVG free,spybot, ETC Will not Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEOAethyr Posted March 18, 2006 Posted March 18, 2006 The enterprise server ver is what I use. However since mine was from last year I dumped it. I only used it once in a great while anyways to do a manual scan. If you twek the registry of some of it's services and run stuff, I mean remove them, it runs much better. Not starting up with windows, and making it useable when you actually need it. However experimenting to find what you can and connato remove from startup takes a little bit of time but is not that hard. I would post what to remove and such but like I said, I did'nt put much time into it and since del the orignal copy and all. I'll have to get a new ver sometime later. A buddy of mine got a non release copy of the latest nfs, a game. I had to back that up along with a few other things before he sent his emachine for rma. I was kinda forced into running the thing, I don't like running non release progs..., warez talk here...(I'm not talking directly about this) Even then I never run the cracks and keygens that come with them as I can find my own. Anyways I scanned with a prog called F-Prot. It seems like a great replacement, but I really don't know how well it actually does. Like norton/symantec, it needs to be configuered so it actually scans for everything and prompts to remove anything it finds(instead of just trashing everything). It can be configuerd quite easy though compared to norten. I mean very easy. Don't even need reg hacks. Anyone have experience or thaughts about F-Prot? If it really is a very good alt program then perhaps I'll just forget about symantec alltogether. I did'nt find anythign on my rig though. I don't think I actually have any virus'es, but then again who knows... I hate when people dl purre crap off the internet instead of getting a good release of somehting or an official dl... Official like in dl'ing from the original site, and not some site off in the middle of nowhere... I can't stand that :. I don't like auto scan/protection either as it is a hog of resources and time. I don't need somethig that would take 25% of my cpu instead taking 1% of it. Nor do I need to take 5% of my hd bandwith and replace it with 100% usage :. Manual scans I believe are the way to go but there is people out there like like the auto and full protection stuff. That auto stuff, is ok I think on a dedecated rig that's setup as a gateway/router/firewall. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kandoo Posted March 18, 2006 Posted March 18, 2006 Yea, I had norton and it sucked. I liked there tools but the rest of it blows. I just go with AVG anti-virus (free) set it up to scan and update at night when I'm asleep. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooler Posted March 18, 2006 Posted March 18, 2006 Perhaps NIS/NAV is not the King of Bloatware--- but it sure is one of the "royal family"! :sad: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetaMaverick Posted March 18, 2006 Posted March 18, 2006 I used to use Norton, I hated how deep it integrates itself in your registry, makes it very difficult to unistall completely (or atleast that used to be the case, not sure now). And yeah, it was very slow. I use McAfee Enterprise, recent versions of it has been a little troublesome but I found fixes for it. It used to delete valid media files without my permission (for some reason they now have this set to default which is a terrible decission in my opinion). But this guy scans for practically everything (viruses, malware, spyware, tojans, etc) I like the fact that my license is perpetual (because of the university I go to) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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