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"Norton Used To Be The Standard: Not Any More"
Pros: I can't think of anything positive to say about Norton anymore.
Cons: A tremendous resource hog, slows your computer to a crawl.
Summary: I stopped using Norton anti-virus the first part of March 2005. It is a tremendous resource hog of system resources, boot times, and shut down times. With Norton running on your computer, regardless of how fast your processor may be and how much RAM you may have, it will slow your system down to a crawl. Forget about multi-tasking with Norton running in the background.
Plus, I repair and maintain computers for a living and on 4 systems in the last 2 months, I have had to use AVG anti-virus to remove trojan horse programs from computers that had updated installations of Norton anti-virus!
Norton is no longer a reliable product and their attitude regarding customer service is terrible (and expensive). I would not recommend any Norton product.
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As a wireless tech for our university, I can't begin to express the thorough frustration when a student pays for and downloads the latest Norton product and when they need technical assitance from Norton, must pay for it. In addition, removing Norton from a computer can be quite frustrating. I would recommend looking at software from Intego.
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I agree with Mike as the Norton Internet Security 2005 was a pathetic piece of software. When you had unblocked communications in your statistic log and clicked on the link, it would take you to a page with a long list of events and was never specific about what kind of intrusion occurred. [This is one example]. One thing though I will mention is that they have waiting in the wings for October 2005 a brand new approach for their next Internet Security Package due to a patent that was filed 1999 and had come out in the news on Wall Street. So we may expect something really big from Symantec due to this revolutionary innovation that was assigned to Symantec from another person who wrote this new code formula for malicious code.
Right now though , resource hog is the problem for some programs. If they gave you an alternative to chop them up in pieces where you can choose what you want then it might be more effective for all end-users.
McAfee Internet Security Suite does give you this option so Mike look into that software. It is an excellent example of resource control.
