Norton Antivirus

Monstermunch · 3 Mar 2006 at 23:45

Basically I hate it. I've been using Avast for a while now and it seems like a very safe and secure program. Norton on the other hand is not, it slows the computer down, eats up valuable resources and is generally crap at doing the job people are buying it to perform.

I really wish people would stop buying it and just use the good free virus programs that are available and IMO better than most you could purchase.

Sorry if this sounds like a bit of a rant but i'm getting tired of fixing friends and family's computers that have either been reduced to a crawl by Norton or have been riddled with virii that Norton has failed miserably to block.

4T5 · 3 Mar 2006 at 23:51

Dude i whole heartedly agree with your rant. Not really in the mood for a full slating but in my experience its crap. Bloated system slowing overbearing crap.
I had a free 1 year sub to Norton and still don't use it so basically even when Free i won't use it as i feel its that bad.
I use Avast which although not as light as Nod32 is Free and i like free and have plenty of resources to cover the slight extra usage.

Down with Norton.
Perhaps we should have a pic thread of Norton disc destruction that'd be fun.

Monstermunch · 4 Mar 2006 at 00:22

Yea let's do it

, I was just looking for a domain name to register, so I could set up a website dedicated to the extinction of Norton AV and Symantec.

HighlandeR · 4 Mar 2006 at 00:44

Ive been installing norton internet security 2005-6 daily on customers pcs now for 2 years and what can I say ? customers always complain that my pc is now so slow when starting up and as if its my fault.

So rather then look at sales, I offered them a better service I recommended them AVG

Managers dont like it but hey least it makes my job 10x easier and at least I can fix there pcs easier....

Symantec should just buy out Nod32 and they already brought out sysgate so dunno what they doing...

Monstermunch · 4 Mar 2006 at 00:51

HighlandeR said:
Symantec should just buy out Nod32 and they already brought out sysgate so dunno what they doing...

Man, no they shouldn't. They'll ruin that aswell. They bought Sygate, one of the best free firewalls available and within a month announced that they were no longer going to provide updates for it.

People should stop buying anything made by Symantec thus stopping their cashflow and making sure they can't buy up any more competition just to shut them down.

AtreuS · 4 Mar 2006 at 00:52

I agree... first thing i do when fixing a pc is remove anything symantec/norton related. 90% of the time this alone fixes it lol.

Utter rubbish software thats only popular because of the fact that half the purple land is filled with it.

Monstermunch · 4 Mar 2006 at 01:13

malc30 said:
Perhaps we should have a pic thread of Norton disc destruction that'd be fun.

LOL

Whitewater · 4 Mar 2006 at 01:59

Symantec Antivirus is quite good, Norton Antivirus is not.

Caged · 4 Mar 2006 at 02:34

Monstermunch said:
LOL

Great photoshop there, real wit and humour displayed.

HighlandeR · 4 Mar 2006 at 15:45

AtreuS said:
Utter rubbish software thats only popular because of the fact that half the purple land is filled with it.

Ditto im proberly the only techy in No competitor talk please! advising not to buy it, sadly mcafees the only other option and thats not as half bad but bad enuff !

barnettgs · 4 Mar 2006 at 17:59

Monstermunch said:
They bought Sygate, one of the best free firewalls available and within a month announced that they were no longer going to provide updates for it.

I think they intended to buy it and then stopped it being free to kill off the competition.

Let's hope it is not going to happen to ZoneAlarm.

Windows SP2 Firewall & Defender is our only hope!

Duke · 4 Mar 2006 at 18:54

Yes Norton is rather pap

Been using NOD32 for about 2yrs now, and it's so quick