Norton Antivirus is an IDIOT!

**orcutt989** · 12-13-2005, 03:06 AM

I use norton in pure fear that if I uninstall it, I will be forced to reformat my hard drive.

**Wolfmight** · 12-13-2005, 02:05 PM

Originally Posted by orcutt989

I use norton in pure fear that if I uninstall it, I will be forced to reformat my hard drive.

If you can't let go on Norton, then I suggest using NOD32 combined with it. Trust me, you will love it's active scan methods.
NOD32 scans every object you could possibly think of, including every little thing you open. (no speed hit either). It shows you the details of what has been scanned, while Norton doesn't.

**RealitY** · 12-13-2005, 10:49 PM

Originally Posted by fkdup74

no problems with Symantec Corp

(w/ AntiVir personal for a "second guesser")

see now, if any of you have ran NIS or NSW,
you asked for the trouble you got
it ties into the system too damned much IMO

Corp is lighter, free for life, and it doesn't lock up the system
yeah NOD32 was nice, but I'm fuckin tired of jumping through hoops to get it to run
(unless, of course, I actually felt like buying it)
nsane had an easy way to get it going, but then you have to make sure the fixer is updated
meh. too much shit. just install SAV Corp and it's ready to go

I completly agree as even though I cant stand Norton and all its ties I havent had any issue with Symantic at all. Any install I do especially those little files are scanned first and then run on VM also whcih has AVG at the moment. As a backup I keep a Ghost image at least once a month also...

**4play** · 12-13-2005, 11:53 PM

norton apprently will be losing lots of bloat from their next release since they had had soo many complaints.

I recommend symantec corp as well, used it on a p3 600mhz machine with 256mb of ram on xp with no real noticable slow down.

**Wolfmight** · 12-14-2005, 02:03 PM

heh, Norton took forever to open on an AMD 64bit CPU I saw the other day. They claimed the Hardrive was 15000rpm too! still lag.

**Delorean** · 12-15-2005, 06:41 PM

NOD32 seems to be the best!

I don't like to use 2 Anti viruses becouse are likely to couse problems...

I used to have Kasp. with NOD and a bunch o proplems occured! As soon as i unistalled one of the two (Kasperski) everything were moving great!

No slow downs, no errors, no problems..

Z.A.pro NOD32 and AD-Aware pro are great combination!

I used to use Norton before i hear about nod and i wasn't happy at all with it!

Too many resources were sucked by it and it wasn't that protective!

The only good thing that i admit that NOD has over the other AV is its Definitions! I think Norton has more virus definitions than any other AV!