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DO NOT USE Norton 360 With VISTA! SLOW!!!!

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Johnpombrio   11-13-2007 at 12:19:12 AM

Norton 360 slows multitasked in Vista down to a crawl when TWO OR MORE programs are trying to access the hard drive at the same time. It was so bad that I almost went back to XP. I FINALLY found the answer on this guys site: Once I uninstalled Norton 360, the mutitasking slowdown went away immediately. I would imagine that Norton 2007 has the same issue. JUST SAY NO TO NORTON!
http://tech.kateva.org/2007/03/vis [...] rable.html
"The worst offenders are the anti-virus suites with real-time protection. According to these results, the latest Norton Internet Security degrades boot time by nearly 50 percent. And no, that isn't a typo in the disk column. It also makes all disk access sixteen times slower!"
PS Norton 360 is also a pain to uninstall. Need disk and the Norton removal tool from their site.

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dmroeder   11-13-2007 at 02:18:57 AM
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I haven't used Norton in years. Best thing I ever did was give up on that software.

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septic   11-13-2007 at 02:33:07 AM
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Norton Antivirus is a heap of crap, no one should ever use it. It's slow and detection rate is poor.

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Flingpoo   11-15-2007 at 04:13:05 AM
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AVG!

I downloaded the internet suite trial version.

It's been working great. The only thing I've noticed so far is the email scan seems to slow things down a bit in "windows mail".

Norton is a big, slow hog of program.
I had it on my last XP machine. It does a good job keeping viruses out, but eventually I started having problems with it, even after a reformat of XP. Eventually uninstalled it. I couldn't believe how much it affected my computer and how it slowed things down.

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spuddyt   11-15-2007 at 10:12:34 PM
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rename the thread, and sticky it and lock it, just to be a warning to people who get given this useless pile of crap
"DO NOT USE NORTON"

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