Win7 and Norton 2010 Anti Virus

Is there any history of Norton's Anti Virus product
http://www.antivirusware.com/norton-antivirus/ interfering with Win7. I
may decide to use that. I read the somewhat detailed thread on anti
virus products on here recently and will also consider those.

On 1/8/2010 1:33 PM PT, Emrys Davies typed:

Is there any history of Norton's Anti Virus product
http://www.antivirusware.com/norton-antivirus/ interfering with Win7. I
may decide to use that. I read the somewhat detailed thread on anti
virus products on here recently and will also consider those.

It will be fine in it. Try the trial version.
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Partner Engineering/Internet Service Provider/Symantec Online Services,
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"Emrys Davies" wrote:

Is there any history of Norton's Anti Virus product
http://www.antivirusware.com/norton-antivirus/ interfering with Win7. I
may decide to use that. I read the somewhat detailed thread on anti
virus products on here recently and will also consider those.


My personal experience, which lots of others agree with me, is that,
generally, Symantec/Norton personal products are nothing but bloated and
resource hungry junk, their anti virus holds the lead in that.

Their corporate products are decent though.

I would suggest avoiding Norton Anti Virus and use a combination of a
free anti virus and free anti spyware.

I use Avast and have no complaints, along with Malwareytes.
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

You can't beat that price.
I am even considering paying for the real time protection option for
Malwareytes, from what I have seen from and from reading in other
newsgroups of recommendations of its real time protection option.

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"Emrys Davies" wrote:

Is there any history of Norton's Anti Virus product
http://www.antivirusware.com/norton-antivirus/ interfering with Win7.
I
may decide to use that. I read the somewhat detailed thread on anti
virus products on here recently and will also consider those.


My personal experience, which lots of others agree with me, is that,
generally, Symantec/Norton personal products are nothing but bloated
and
resource hungry junk, their anti virus holds the lead in that.

Their corporate products are decent though.

I would suggest avoiding Norton Anti Virus and use a combination of a
free anti virus and free anti spyware.

I use Avast and have no complaints, along with Malwareytes.
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

You can't beat that price.
I am even considering paying for the real time protection option for
Malwareytes, from what I have seen from and from reading in other
newsgroups of recommendations of its real time protection option.

I am using Avast on my present PC, but only because AVG eventually
declined to support my Win98 SE. When I uninstalled AVG my OS closed
down properly and it was only then that I realised that it was the cause
of my machine refusing to 'Close Down'.

I will consider all of your suggestions. Many thanks.

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"Emrys Davies" wrote:


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"Emrys Davies" wrote:

Is there any history of Norton's Anti Virus product
http://www.antivirusware.com/norton-antivirus/ interfering with Win7.
I
may decide to use that. I read the somewhat detailed thread on anti
virus products on here recently and will also consider those.


My personal experience, which lots of others agree with me, is that,
generally, Symantec/Norton personal products are nothing but bloated
and
resource hungry junk, their anti virus holds the lead in that.

Their corporate products are decent though.

I would suggest avoiding Norton Anti Virus and use a combination of a
free anti virus and free anti spyware.

I use Avast and have no complaints, along with Malwareytes.
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

You can't beat that price.
I am even considering paying for the real time protection option for
Malwareytes, from what I have seen from and from reading in other
newsgroups of recommendations of its real time protection option.

I am using Avast on my present PC, but only because AVG eventually
declined to support my Win98 SE. When I uninstalled AVG my OS closed
down properly and it was only then that I realised that it was the cause
of my machine refusing to 'Close Down'.

I will consider all of your suggestions. Many thanks.


No problem.
Glad I could help.

"Emrys Davies" wrote in message
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Is there any history of Norton's Anti Virus product
http://www.antivirusware.com/norton-antivirus/ interfering with Win7. I
may decide to use that. I read the somewhat detailed thread on anti
virus products on here recently and will also consider those.




Personally, I would not have anything made by Norton, (Symantec), or
McAfee on any machine of mine. They are both resource hogs, (Norton being
the worst), and don't do anything better than some free AV programs. I got
this machine last October and the first thing I did was to remove the
Norton free trial and then run the removal tool to get all the crap off
the machine.

Download and run the Norton Removal Tool:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...05033108162039

I am using MSE, but all of these are free and do just as good a job as
Norton, without being intrusive.

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition
http://free.grisoft.com/ww.download?prd=afe

Do a custom installation and opt out of e-mail scanning.

Avast:
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

In the case of Avast, choose Custom Installation and under Resident
Protection, uncheck: Internet Mail and Outlook/Exchange.

Microsoft Security Essentials:
http://www.microsoft.com/security_es...s/default.aspx

(No e-mail scanning to worry about)
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA

NORTON ITSELF IS A VIRUS. It reported that Win 7 was a virus

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"Emrys Davies" wrote:

Is there any history of Norton's Anti Virus product
http://www.antivirusware.com/norton-antivirus/ interfering with Win7. I
may decide to use that. I read the somewhat detailed thread on anti
virus products on here recently and will also consider those.


My personal experience, which lots of others agree with me, is that,
generally, Symantec/Norton personal products are nothing but bloated and
resource hungry junk, their anti virus holds the lead in that.

Their corporate products are decent though.

I would suggest avoiding Norton Anti Virus and use a combination of a
free anti virus and free anti spyware.

I use Avast and have no complaints, along with Malwareytes.
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

You can't beat that price.
I am even considering paying for the real time protection option for
Malwareytes, from what I have seen from and from reading in other
newsgroups of recommendations of its real time protection option.

Nortons is **** and has been for years. AVG free edition is a heck of a lot
better.

"Emrys Davies" wrote in message
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Is there any history of Norton's Anti Virus product
http://www.antivirusware.com/norton-antivirus/ interfering with Win7. I
may decide to use that. I read the somewhat detailed thread on anti
virus products on here recently and will also consider those.

On 1/8/2010 1:33 PM, Emrys Davies wrote:
Is there any history of Norton's Anti Virus product
http://www.antivirusware.com/norton-antivirus/ interfering with Win7. I
may decide to use that. I read the somewhat detailed thread on anti
virus products on here recently and will also consider those.



Go with AVAST!, Avira, or AVG.
Anything out there is better than Norton or Mcafee.
They suck and are expensive.

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On 1/8/2010 1:33 PM, Emrys Davies wrote:
Is there any history of Norton's Anti Virus product
http://www.antivirusware.com/norton-antivirus/ interfering with Win7. I
may decide to use that. I read the somewhat detailed thread on anti
virus products on here recently and will also consider those.



Go with AVAST!, Avira, or AVG.
Anything out there is better than Norton or Mcafee.
They suck and are expensive.

"John Smith" wrote in message
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http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

Free, works well, low resource overhead...pretty much zero problems...you
won't know it's there and you won't have to mess with it.

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http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

Free, works well, low resource overhead...pretty much zero problems...you
won't know it's there and you won't have to mess with it.


Low resource overhead?
Not in my case.

I have several computers in my home network and one of the is a slightly
outdate, with 512MB RAM and it started crawling when I installed MSE.
I uninstalled it and everything works again.

But it has no problems with other computers that I am using it on, they
range from 4 GB RAM to 12GB.

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On 1/8/2010 1:33 PM, Emrys Davies wrote:
Is there any history of Norton's Anti Virus product
http://www.antivirusware.com/norton-antivirus/ interfering with Win7. I
may decide to use that. I read the somewhat detailed thread on anti
virus products on here recently and will also consider those.



Go with AVAST!, Avira, or AVG.
Anything out there is better than Norton or Mcafee.
They suck and are expensive.


Even worse - Sophos. It is actually the best there is but it costs an arm
and a leg!

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"Charles Tomaras" wrote:


"John Smith" wrote in message
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http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

Free, works well, low resource overhead...pretty much zero problems...you
won't know it's there and you won't have to mess with it.


Low resource overhead?
Not in my case.

I have several computers in my home network and one of the is a slightly
outdate, with 512MB RAM and it started crawling when I installed MSE.
I uninstalled it and everything works again.

But it has no problems with other computers that I am using it on, they
range from 4 GB RAM to 12GB.

Just cant get enough ram, huh?

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"Charles Tomaras" wrote:


"John Smith" wrote in message
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http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

Free, works well, low resource overhead...pretty much zero problems...you
won't know it's there and you won't have to mess with it.


Low resource overhead?
Not in my case.

I have several computers in my home network and one of the is a slightly
outdate, with 512MB RAM and it started crawling when I installed MSE.
I uninstalled it and everything works again.

But it has no problems with other computers that I am using it on, they
range from 4 GB RAM to 12GB.

Just cant get enough ram, huh?

LOL.
True.
I am one greedy person when it comes to that.
I abuse computers when using, have tons of applications running, listen
to music in the background, running couple of server applications on
top, so that's why my desktop is a brand new i7 975 3.33 MHz HP with 12
GB of ram.
Don't ask me how much I spent though, :-(