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Our less-than-a-year-old Lenovo laptop with a dualcore processor and 2Gt RAM has felt suspiciously sluggish. The same with my due-to-update desktop.

Today I uninstalled the Norton IS from our laptop with the Norton removal tool.

Oh man the machine feels like a whole new laptop now!

I replaced Norton with Avast, Ad-Aware, Windows firewall and Windows defender. We also usually log in without admin rights. I think we're safe.

I will never, ever, ever, get Norton again. We got licences for all our three machines for good many years, but lately the toll on resources has been just too high IMHO.

Earthlight

ps. What other software I should add on top of the Avast and Ad-Aware and the windows programs.

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I thought everyone knew by now not to touch anything symantec with a 100 foot pole.
 
What are the conflicts now? Should I replace the Avast with AVG Internet security?

I really appreciate if you can comment on this a bit further.

Thanks!

Earthlight
LKeithR said:
Yes, Norton is not the program you want to have installed on any
computer. The only thing I would change is to go with AVG Internet
Security so you don't have multiple programs conflicting with each
other...
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I thought some people a while ago said AVG is broken? Still so? I need to get rid of my Norton Security too.. Looking for good alternative to cover all protection.
Thanks.

Mufutau
LKeithR said:
Yes, Norton is not the program you want to have installed on any
computer. The only thing I would change is to go with AVG Internet
Security so you don't have multiple programs conflicting with each
other...
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You may have removed it, but I bet there are still junk files and registry entries everywhere related to symantec and norton.
 
Earthlight said:
Our less-than-a-year-old Lenovo laptop with a dualcore processor and
2Gt RAM has felt suspiciously sluggish. The same with my
due-to-update desktop.

Today I uninstalled the Norton IS from our laptop with the Norton
removal tool.
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Specifically which Norton product were you using -- since they seem to have several different "Titled" packages.
Vernon....
Earthlight said:
Oh man the machine feels like a whole new laptop now!

Earthlight

ps. What other software I should add on top of the Avast and Ad-Aware
and the windows programs.
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Mostly harmless
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I'm not saying that what you have right now won't work. Lots of people use a combination of programs for security purposes. I just know from personal experience that everything seems to work better when it's integrated into a single package and I also have the comfort of knowing that one daily automatic update takes care of everything. Here's what's available in the AVG Internet Security package...



I've used AVG for several years now with no problems and as far as I can remember I've had no viruses or other bad guys since then. I do use the paid version--just checked the website, by the way and it's working fine--which is currently just under $90 CDN for a two year subscription. Well worth it, in my view...

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I used to like their stuff but like most, I had too many problems with them
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George with the (big) rack
 
I see what you mean. This is why I used the Norton Internet security package for so long.

Will check out AVG.

Earthlight

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I did not merely uninstall the Norton but used a specific removal tool by Symantec. Should at least be better than simply uninstalling.

Earthlight

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I'm running Norton Corporate (from work, I'm in IT and theoretically my PC at home can be treated as a work computer since I work from home a good amount of the time) and out of the Norton programs, this one is the only one that doesn't slow down a system noticably.

Norton consumer products are HORRIBLE! Corp works fine for me though!
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Interesting comments.

I seem to remember reading some reviews recently that suggested that Norton had FINALLY cleaned up their act a little and that their latest version. See for instance:

http://review.zdnet.com/product/internet-security-and-firewall/norton-internet-security-2009/33246586

I run Trend Micro Internet Security on my PC(s), but have not been 100% happy for two reasones: (1) I have the professional version which includes a key encryption tool when surfing the internet, but (in Vista) the first time you load the browser after booting, it pops up a UAC box (yes you can turn that off, or you can turn off the key encryption app - which I have now done); (2) Their old version causes Outlook Express (with large folders) to slow down to a crawl - when you change folders (or start it) it seems to hang for minutes (I suspect it is scanning every message in the folder each time). I have been tempted to junk this program, but then would have to find something else and the subscription I have lasts till 2010 (maybe next time I rebuild ...)

With AVG (the free version), my sister had this on her PC, and they managed to get infected with that stupid scareware last year (the one that a few people have mentioned recently here) - AVG didn't stop it being installed, and was unable to get rid of it at the time (or even see it), so I wasn't overly impressed ... mind you no available program seemed to do much at the time & I ended up having to manually remove it (after several Google searches - see http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1004&message=29276303 ).

Bottom line is that it seems to be very hard to find the perfect program.

I know that this topic is dissing NIS, but I would be interested to hear if anyone has had experience with their latest version.

Iain.
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With regard to your sister's experience with AVG, there's a difference between what you get with the free version and the full security suite. In my view the Anti-Rootkit, web shield and linkscanner functions are necessary functions if you're surfing today's net. And just to be clear, NO antivirus program will protect you from everything if you're not proactive about how you conduct yourself. I'm careful about where I go when I surf and I scan every single attachment I receive by email, NO MATTER WHERE IT COMES FROM. Trust no one and you'll avoid a lot of problems. Just because you got an attachment from a friend yesterday that was clean doesn't mean their system isn't infected today.

Another tip: Scan all your outgoing traffic as well. If more people took responsibility for their own systems and did this the web would be a much safer place...
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