 Norton Anti Virus - Overprotective?, Your view on it |
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 Jan 24 2005, 02:05 AM
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Premium Member  Group: Members Posts: 171 Joined: 10-November 04 From: Canada Member No.: 2,223  |
i find norton anti virus to be more of a hassle than anything on my system. i currently have it disabled because of the constant warnings and 'tips' it 'provides'. i have talked with other people about this, and have set up someones new computer that they have little knowledge about and the responses i get are the same, people are annoyd with it.
do you find it protects well? do you find it too intrusive? any other anti virus programs you prefer over norton? |
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Jan 24 2005, 02:58 AM
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Moderator  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 1,337 Joined: 26-December 04 From: Canada Member No.: 2,940 |
Maybe you really DO have a virus on your system...
I have norton antivirus installed, and it has NEVER harrassed me with useless information. However it did warn me about a couple of viruses, which eventually I got rid of! If you have Norton Antivirus 2005, it also has spyware features! (and might bother you with it, because spyware is more common! (Although I don't recommend it because it's not reliable... After all, they still make antivirus systems... I recommend Microsoft AntiSpyware or Ad-Adware or Spybot search and destroy...) ~Dooga |
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Jan 24 2005, 03:27 AM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 179 Joined: 5-November 04 Member No.: 2,140 |
Agree with Doga.
Actually, i only have my norton to stop it tips. But keep the virus and script scanner active. You may be really have virus in ur computer. May be u insert diskette or your folder.htt has infected. You should do virus scan thorugh all of your folders and files... surely you will found a lot of virus... the most popular on i think is HTMLRedLof.A.... when the first i install norton antivirus... scan for viruses and found more than 100 of HTMLRedLof virus.... it's not dangerous anyway... |
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Jan 24 2005, 04:34 AM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 618 Joined: 30-October 04 From: Philippines Member No.: 2,049 |
I think so... It also eats sooo much resources! I sugest using EZ Antivirus, AVG, or search on download.com or betanews.com for the best antivirus available.
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Jan 24 2005, 07:07 AM
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Moderator Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 1,337 Joined: 26-December 04 From: Canada Member No.: 2,940 |
AVG is pretty useful and it uses the least resources!
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Jan 24 2005, 10:41 PM
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Newbie [Level 3] Group: Members Posts: 43 Joined: 24-January 05 Member No.: 3,407 |
I agree with Dooga, i use AVG and nothing else. when i tried norton is actually made my computer worse and on my parent scomputers i scanned with norton and it picked up 2 virus', where as avg found 147
 so i totally recommend avg over everything plus its free for life  and updated almost every day. www.grisoft.com goodl uck with it and i hope it shows you the same results it did me 
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Jan 31 2005, 07:08 AM
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Privileged Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 534 Joined: 31-January 05 From: Bucharest, Romania Member No.: 3,516 |
I really like Norton AntiVirus 2005. I never had any problem with a Norton Antivirus. It doesn't seem over protective to me. Some say it eats to much memory but it doesn't seem to slow down my PC too much.
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Feb 3 2005, 04:01 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 136 Joined: 20-October 04 From: Thailand Member No.: 1,840 |
My computer to slow if i setup norton anti virus it maybe more slowly.
So i use McAfee. |
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Feb 3 2005, 04:49 AM
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Member [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 75 Joined: 23-October 04 Member No.: 1,913 |
Well you can actually disable all the tips and all that, but yeah what I find kind of annoying on Norton (SystemWorks 2005) is that scanns everything and when it does that like a little pop up thing says 'Scanning blah blah blah' and then you have 2 options Stop or Continue but well when it is scanning it slows the computer down or for example I go to yahoo and scanns something from the website and until is not done the website won't load that kind of annoys me it doesn't take very long just a few seconds but well I can't disable it and I would reccomend disabling Norton if that is the only Anti Virus software installed on the computer, viruses are worse than the few little annoying things that anti virus porgrams do...
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