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    Norton Security Suite Free! (Comcast) - Thoughts?

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by requiem86, Apr 2, 2012.

  1. requiem86

    requiem86 Notebook Evangelist

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    Anyone here use the free Norton Security Suite for Comcast users? My ESET expired..so i switched over...I can't tell what to make of it. I'm not sure if it's good, bad, or decent. Anyone have any thoughts or experience with it? I do like free...but I don't like having a slowed down PC.
     
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    Nortonn is quite good and absolutely doesn't slow your pc down.
    See AV-TEST - The Independent IT-Security Institute: Jan/Feb 2012 for a test that also measures the average slow-down of the computer in daily use.
     
    Gandalf_The_Grey, Apr 2, 2012
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    coolguy Notebook Prophet

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    I am using the Comcast Norton suite. It's quite good, but sometimes the after idling, the idle scan process gets stuck at a high CPU usage (more than 50%). I have the backup and PC tune up options disabled.

    The only way to end the process is to restart your system. I had increased my idle wait time to 30 minutes for now.
     
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    requiem86 Notebook Evangelist

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    Thanks guys. I will keep it and do some of the setting tweaks coolguy mentioned.
     
    requiem86, Apr 2, 2012
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    My biggest beef with norton is that it takes decision making out - it will continually quarantine and delete files that it thinks are suspicious even when I told it not to (several times). Unsure if it has become remarkably better in 2012 iteration, but that sort of loss of control was huge for me.

    But its a great AV+firewall, can't go much better.
     
    niharjhatn, Apr 3, 2012
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