Norton and me - Real Life Story. Why not to use Norton.

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Hello,

You may have read my previous thread of my wonder in why many people disliked norton so greatly. Well today I have seen.

My computer usually started up with norton in about 6 to 8 minutes on a warm boot. On a cold boot, around 20 minutes. Well I thought the problem was RAM related. Little did I know, Norton was using over 50% of my computer's resources. It slowed down and crashed firefox, made opening ZIP files hard and long, and right clicking was way out of the question. If I had to run anything graphical, it would crash.

Well I removed Norton today, and in the restart, it took one minute to load and get FireFox up.

This is why not to use Norton. It isn't your computer, it is the hog anti virus.
 
Told you norton was a virus lmao...

For a light anti virus try clamwin or avg free.
 
I might get Avg later but I feel good without one. I only download a modification for my board like once every week so I should be ok.
 
Eh, I used Norton for years - my computer used to boot in under a minute.

I don't know what kind of specs you guys have on yours...
 
What version of Norton are you using? I am using Norton 2010 and my Vista laptop starts up in just less then 45 seconds and i have no problems with FireFox or anything. My guessing is that you are using an old version.
 
Well I remember my laptop's Norton detected itself as a virus and deleted it...then FF wouldn't work, nor would any other browser except AOL browser (IE in disguise).

D:
 
Yeah, I've heard poor things about Norton. Thankfully, Avast/AVG seem to do the trick for me.
 
i had norton and had a terrible experience, like no joke i got an error message from nortan saying you have a virus and im like ok cool but it didnt give me any options so i figured it caught it, 5 seconds later my computer crashed and wouldnt boot back up i had to reformat the whole thing so thanks Norton... lol anyway i used Trend Micro for awhile which was much better until eventually i gave up on antivirus programs all together lol
 
I think anything under 2009 hogs RAM like Vista 😛

My friend uses Norton, his computer does not boot unless he goes into the settings when you boot and disable it.
 
The Pimped Papaya said:
I think anything under 2009 hogs RAM like Vista 😛

My friend uses Norton, his computer does not boot unless he goes into the settings when you boot and disable it.
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I understand that some people have had bad experiences with it, but I used it since last December and only got rid of it when I got rid of Vista. My computer ran without complaint.
 
I used to use Norton and it did not help at all when I got virus. All i did was give me notice and didn't even try to remove it or anything. When I got a new computer I used McAfee and so far it has blocked virus and removed the ones that passed. Also I hear lot of stories about Norton deleting it self.
 
All programs have horror stories. Some people have a bad experience with Norton same as people have had bad experience with other programs. I had problems with Mcafee hence why i am not using it. I have had problems with AVG free in the past. Not everybodies experience is always going to be good.

Bare in mind that programs do improve and that you can't always put down a software due to the past.
 
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