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    Is Norton 360 a hog?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by GaryMichael, May 2, 2008.

  1. GaryMichael

    GaryMichael Newbie

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    I have a new Sony laptop (FZN348b) and had a Gateway previously. I installed Norton 360 on the Gateway and the machine ran slower. I installed 360 on my new Vaio before I had a sense of its speed, but I sense it too is running slower than it should. Anyone else suspect 360 of slowing things down?
     
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  2. The_Observer

    The_Observer 9262 is the best:)

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    Yes,Norton is a HOG.
     
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    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    SPEEDwithJJ NBR Super Idiot

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    I hate to admit it, but have to agree with that statement...
     
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  5. Gazelle

    Gazelle Notebook Consultant

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    I use Avira Antivir. It's free, and it does not hog up resources like other antivirus software.
     
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    I agree - with a good router, free antivirus, free spyware and free firewalls, I don't think you need to spend money on Norton or McAfee. One of the happiest moments of performance boosting for me was the day I nuked McAfee (and the $37/yr subscription).
     
    bubbatex, May 3, 2008
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    coolguy Notebook Prophet

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    I am using Avira free editon. I don't know how far will the freebies cope up with the paid versions. I tried Norton antivirus 2008 and it has a low resource usage, sometimes even lower than (AVG, Avira), but the start up time is still slow.
     
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  8. Jurisprudence

    Jurisprudence Notebook Evangelist

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    Norton is one of the biggest pieces of c**p that you can throw on a laptop. Resource heavy, costs money, costs battery life and is oftentimes ineffective against the very viruses it claims to defend against. This basically gives people a false sense of security which IMHO is worse than no security at all. I'm using Avast and wouldn't go near anything else. The company I work for has a deal with Symantec to sell a customized version of 360 and when told to recommend/sell it the answer was simple, go screw yourselves and if you try to make me i'll see you in court. The way it digs itself so deep into the registry makes a completely clean removal of all core registry entries extremely difficult. Any software that doesn't get off my systems when told to doesn't get a second chance.

    It still amazes me how much money people will spend on an incremental processor speed increase or faster HDD and then go and wipe out the gains (and more) by installing this bloated fat POS.
     
    Jurisprudence, May 3, 2008
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