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Norton AntiVirus is A Virus
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From
18/06/2007 10:46:39
Mike Cole
Yellow Lab Technologies
Stanley, Iowa, United States
 
 
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18/06/2007 10:32:21
Jay Johengen
Altamahaw-Ossipee, North Carolina, United States
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Forum:
Windows
Category:
Computing in general
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01233830
Message ID:
01233946
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14
>>>Hi Bhav
>>>
>>>I thought sloooooow computers was the price we now had to pay for anti-virus, till I got rid of Norton (and it wasn't easy!), and replaced it with AVG. Now the puter goes like sh!t off a chrome shovel ... well, in comparison.
>>>
>>>>:)
>>>>
>>>>http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/Norton_AntiVirus_is_A_Virus_97_2007.php
>>
>>Are you using the newest version of AVG Free Edition? I thought that was dog slow, so I changed to the PC Tools free antivirus. I am having decent luck with that so far.
>
>I'm using AVG 7.5 full version and it catches everything. I run the scheduled scan once a day and have had no problems. I do not run the access part of it as it did slow things down a bit, but I was under the impression that they all did; nature of the beast and all that.

Yes, I figured it would, but it was really drastically slow. It is not my primary machine, so I didn't see it firsthand, but was told it was a lot better and I uninstalled.
Very fitting: http://xkcd.com/386/
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