tired of NORTON antivirus!!!

[stanyy]

I'm not sure if this is where i should post this but.....

I'm getting tired of using NORTON antivirus, it seems to be using a lot of my CPU usage and slowing down my compX(

is anyone else having probs with it? and does anyone know a better antivirus program? maybe a Free one

thanks in advance lol

 

[.Lord-Vader.]

This is what i use and if you read up on it on the net it's rated no,1 along with another security suite called kaspersky

Here is the one i use ((( http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-2214-en--BitDefender-Total-Security-2009.html )))

Will.

 

[TexasGuy]

I've heard good things about Avast. It's good and it's free.

Anonym zu www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

 

[stanyy]

I'll check out both, thanks guys...LOL

 

[brmstn69]

The only virsus I've ever gotten when I used Norton were ones that attacked Norton, then they wanted $150 more to get rid of it. Now I use the same program as the military (a friend who's a computer geek with Army Intel. got it for me)

 

[iFairylicious]

I don't have that problem since I have a Mac lol. I don't miss my PC haha.

 

[snapcat]

Ironically, Norton is doing a scan of my computer right now, and as always, it slows things down to the point that I just want to walk away from it and let it do it's work. And I've got 2 gigs of Ram and a fast dual core processor.

 

[XMan101]

I have Mcafee and have never had any problems unless it's installing an update -which does slow it down - then again looking at it slows my PC down

No problems at all over the years and it's caught stuff before it can do any damage every time!!

Most good ones are probably very much the same - I'd never go for a free one these days, too much rubbish out there waiting to attack! My annual fee is very cheap really, so it's not worth compromising for the sake of a few pennies a month!

 

[takeabow1]

I actually love it. IDK maybe you need more ram or something. I have 3GB of it. Its helpful and really keeps my PC clean and protected.

 

[Mtw89]

Bit Defender is good it can get bit annoying though..It scans way to deep and mistakes stuff for viruses that really aren't.

 

[slimjim]

I have always used AVAST.....it's a FREE anti-virus, automatically updates itself (& tells you when it's done it), and runs active in the background giving you alerts if it finds anything , and you can set it to run scans, either deep & thorough or quick standard too. Highly reccommended. Here's the link to the download :

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

I also use Ad-Aware, FREE Anti-spy Malware protection..you have to update this and run scans yourself..it doesn't do it automaticaly..get it here:

http://www.lavasoft.com/

 

[sweetuttsada]

Kaspersky is the best

 

[garth33]

Norton slowed down my old dying computer to the point where I bought a new one that came with McAfee and even though I've got 10 months left on my Norton subscriptioI'll probably go with McAfee since it seems to run a lot smoother on my new Dell.

BTW - I've heard a lot of bitching about Vista but so far it's been okay for me? What's the problem??

peace buddies!
G33

 

[ml89]

I highly recommend Comodo Internet Security. It's free but has a paid version.

It combined Comodo's firewall and antivirus into one single application which runs in the background. It has on-access file scanning (that is, if you download a file, it is scanned immediately, and any time you open a folder which contains files, the files inside are scanned before they can be opened. The firewall is nice because it shows pop up alerts for outgoing programs which makes it easy to not only identify WHAT is going WHERE, but also stop it if you don't want it to. Most firewalls do this but I've never seen one that didn't slow down your computer (ZoneAlarm was really bad in that regard).

The AV picks up a lot of false positives, I find...it gets annoying. I've never had an actual virus it did not detect though...I've tested by downloading known-infected content and it always picks it up. It gets multiple updates per day and instead of popping up a full blown updating window it just pops up a 'balloon' over the system tray to let you know it is updating.

comodo.com...if that's not right just google it.

About norton...yeah, it's bad.
Once upon a time Norton, founded by Peter Norton, was a fantastic company. It produced productivity software and shells for DOS...fantastic products. They also published a couple books which are handy for pseudo-technicians like myself. Now though, their software takes up a lot of space, runs slow, and since huge portions of it stay memory-resident at all times, it slows down even the most modern computers. Plus, it has major compatibility issues with popular software and even some drivers. My neighbour works at a call centre which handles tech support for an ISP in the states and a couple different wireless router manufacturers...I'm told that Norton causes a lot of compatibility issues with certain router brands as well.

Vista doesn't actually have any issues...the complaints are from people who want to run older software, use their legacy hardware, or are not familiar with the new interface. I prefer older versions myself...I find the 'sweet spot' in Windows development was 2000 SP4...just runs perfect, all the time, I've never had any issues with it. XP is the next best thing to me.

95 was probably "the best" because of being revolutionary...at least in the "PC" world. Mac had it beat in the GUI department long before.

/rambling