Winston Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 ppl the only thing i reackon laggs all pcs is norton on boot up the thing it does last is scans the a drive and my god does that stop me from using or opening up any apps its stupid i hate it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aco Veteran Posted January 22, 2002 Veteran Share Posted January 22, 2002 Don't use it then. Use AVG Free Anti-virus - http://www.grisoft.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winston Posted January 22, 2002 Author Share Posted January 22, 2002 nah i mite head for mcafee but norton is a no no unless ic an turn the boot on floppy off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eth3l Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 Agreed use OnTrack's "fix it utilities" let me know in a PM if you cant find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mertsch Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 :D YEAH SOMEBODY IS SAYING IT NAV SUCKS the only reason why so many ppl. have it .... its easy but its not really good Get this fuc*kin good AV Program :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyderman450 Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 I like it, I have Windows XP so my computer boots up under 40 seconds. Anyway, so far it has prevented me from getting a virus from a website and four email viruses. My old virus scanner, McAfee didn't do its job and I ended up getting infected, thats when I switched over to Norton :) - Daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winston Posted January 22, 2002 Author Share Posted January 22, 2002 nothing about norton is bad but on start up always has to do a floppy check and freezes and look how fats my comp is and it stil crashes how gay is NAV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekrosoft13 Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 i have norton and no problems. my comp boots up in about 20 to 30 secs. i use norton, and avx as my virus scaners. p.s. norton is the only one tha tis on all the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 I've used both VS4.5.1 and NAV extensively, and have seen issues with each. The point is, you guys are seriously way off the mark when it comes to judging the quality of AV software. I dont give a sh*t if a product lags 20% of systems on boot, the point is, does it grab all known viruses, every time? Coz I can assure you, neither VirusScan or NAV will. Look at the quality of the scanning, not the prettyness of the gui. These people calling NAV gay because they cant configure it right are seriously lame. Go read a book or something, then come back when you've at least got a vaguely inteligent point to make. Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eth3l Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 Norton is NOT the only one that is on all the time. OnTrack's Fix it utilities is fantastic, small footprint, always active virus scanning, scans incoming files without me even noticing - oh, btw I boot in about 35 seconds I STRONGLY suggest Fix it utilities Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 'p.s. norton is the only one tha tis on all the time' ARG. another incorrect statement. VirusScan 4.5.1 has four elements : web scanning, download scanning, email scanning (which hooks download for pop3), and system scan. System scan is always on, scanning files as the system calls them. Want proof? a)open the system scan properties window and watch it as you load a program b)email EICAR to yourself, and leave it in your inbox. Wait till XP takes a restore point, and then watch. Every hour or so, system scan will routinely alert you to the presance of a virus in the restore point. Because its actively scanning files requested by the OS (meaning the OS has some kinda status checking / polling of restore points on a frequent basis, which is prefectly sensible for a disaster recovery system). Bring it on biiiiatches, this is my job :) Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winston Posted January 22, 2002 Author Share Posted January 22, 2002 at jon we are lame? dont noe how to configure well if ur such a wiz kid why dont u tell me how to turn off boot up floppy scan in my nav then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mozart Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 What is your criteria on anti-virus software? What makes you think one works better than the other? Try this on your scanner: Anti-Virus Tester http://www.damselsoft.freeservers.com/ then come back here and post your results. Norton 2002 passed with flying colours. Oh ya and by the way, when nekrosoft13 said that Norton was the only one on all the time, I think he's refering to having 2 virus scanners - but only 1 (Norton) on all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 Winston. Floppy scanning is performed on shutdown, not boot. As the floppy disk can potentially be mounted before the AV software even loads, this would be pointless. If you boot from a floppy, NAV doesnt even come into the picture, unless it happens to be on the floppy. If you want to turn off shut down scanning... http://service2.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.n...999110809445806 Its pretty obvious from the GUI though. Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 Mozart, I stand corrected :) Its very early for my body clock..! Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
params Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 @Winston NAV 2002 options: Auto-Protect - Advanced Disable Scan floppy disk for boot viruses every time it is mounted Try that! Also it may be worth turning off the option to always check for new floppy frives in your bios if it has that feature P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winston Posted January 22, 2002 Author Share Posted January 22, 2002 hmmm nah nah not actually a scan if u just notice ur NAV look at it when it enables auto protect once it boots ur a drive becomes active for 5 secs then it stops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CloudEngineer Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 i wondered y that happened /me email's symantec support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nidonocu Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 I have NAV 2002 and have a ridiculously fast boot. Full System Scan completes over night and I've had no probs. It's scanned all my e-mail without probs too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazydesert Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 no problems here :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgEnTsMiTh Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 I have NAV 2002 with no boot up issues what-so-ever. My boot takes 20 sec. I Had issues with boot up for a while and I too thought it was Norton, at boot it would appear like NAV was hanging in a scan becuase I could do nothing , come to find out It was not. The issue in boot was my pppoe connection for my dsl line. XP was set at default and scanning for my dns. All I had to do was configure my settings manualy.Once that was fixed, no problems at all. Fast Boot up. I suggest that you look into your configuration of your system not NAV. And so that you know, I have all the features on for NAV and I still have a fast boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazydesert Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 yep yep preparing network connections definitely hangs up boot time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorbing Posted January 22, 2002 Share Posted January 22, 2002 Originally posted by Winston ppl the only thing i reackon laggs all pcs is norton on boot up the thing it does last is scans the a drive and my god does that stop me from using or opening up any apps its stupid i hate it Listen dude. I have used just about every darn antivirus there is out there and nothing catches the bugs better thah Norton. Now, I had McAfee's latest version on my Windows XP Pro PC and it gave me so mnay errors, I ditched it. I now have Norton AV 2002 and I have absolutely no problems. I has caught 7 viruses from email already, something McAfee failed to do. As far as your slow boot, if you are experiencing a slow boot then just simply disable "scan floopy on boot and on shutdown" and that's it. You problems are over. Personally, I have no problems of that type, but then again, you must have quite a bit of memory. I suggest 512 MB or more since XP itself requires no less than 256 MB to work right and NAV 2002 about 64 to work right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madscientist Posted January 30, 2002 Share Posted January 30, 2002 I have NAV2002 for my XP Pro box, but disabling the scanning for floppies does NOT work. It still tries scanning for about 5 secs on boot up and shutdown. It must be a bug:dead: As for protection, it's saved me a few times, which is nice:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariusu Posted January 30, 2002 Share Posted January 30, 2002 well, i must say...enough of this, what i can say from experience is: mcafee sucks...really....i mean this antivirus is damn bad man, the only good antivirus from mcafee is the corporate edition of virusscan (read the tests if u want) but this is not cheap at all as for norton antivirus...i use nav on my computer and didn't have problems with it, it works good and saved me few times from fu**ing my computer with viruses... i don't want to tell u that nav is the best and bug free, but it works good...well, this is my opinion.. m marius:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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