Norton antivirus is a fuc*ing piece of ****


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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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'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

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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.

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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

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@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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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:)

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