adnanshah247 Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Is it me or do anti virus softwares just by purpose like to annoy you. now my yearly antivirus subscription has run out and all of a sudden my computer is beginning to act like a complete dog. i remember this last year as well, when my software run out the computer was running slow and errors and crashing were a constant problem. just removed every trace of the damn software from my computer and now its running much faster than it ever did and no problems whats so ever! i have a suspicion these softwares by purpose corrupt your system in order for you to buy there products! am i wrong? RANT OVER Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Norton is about as good as you inside the case with a bottle of antibiotic medicine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty71 Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Get rid of Norton and use something like Malwarebytes, Norton, Mcafee etc is known for slowing down your PC. I wouldnt pay to use any of their products. I have never really had any issues with using non paying software. Scotty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adnanshah247 Posted February 1, 2010 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 Norton is about as good as you inside the case with a bottle of antibiotic medicine. LMFAO!!!!!!! that cheered me up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Open your task manager and see whats eating your memory, bet its norton updating Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 *cough* Linux *cough* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adnanshah247 Posted February 1, 2010 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 Open your task manager and see whats eating your memory, bet its norton updating it was a lot of norton related rubbish. since i have removed it, its running so fast! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexM Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 avast! is rather good if you need some free light AV. Norton is and always has been a bloated old dog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adnanshah247 Posted February 1, 2010 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 i have mcafee supplied to me for free for one year from my bank. installed and is running good. memory is not being eaten and my computer is remaining tip top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexM Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 That's very strange for mcafee, are you sure it's working? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adnanshah247 Posted February 1, 2010 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 That's very strange for mcafee, are you sure it's working? yeah, its a complete version as well, 1 year subscription. just put in a USB stick which i know has a virus on it and mcafee picked it up straight away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 *cough* Linux *cough* Tree hugging hippy.. away with you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaveriK Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 yeah, its a complete version as well, 1 year subscription. just put in a USB stick which i know has a virus on it and mcafee picked it up straight away. Mcafee is the most horrid piece of software i have ever had the misfortune to work with. It will dig into your computer and if you think you have trouble with Norton set the clock for a years time. Mccrappy is the only AV that i have seen turn a stable PC into a paperweight. Lots of good reviews of freeware but i am always troubled as to how good they are, something for free rarely turns out well. Out of the others i love Sophos, very configurable and has a footprint of 70-80mb memory with both AV and firewall loaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 PC Pro magazine did a review on internet security packages, I think the the AVG one topped the free ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animal Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 AVG or Avast are the two free ones the IT lad at work always suggested. I've ran both and not had any issues with either of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imi Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 *cough* linux *cough* osx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 *cough* Linux *cough* osx Isn't it great feeling utterly superior? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJI Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 I've had experience with a number of so called anti-virus softwares. Norton and Mcaffee I think are not really worth the hassel they give. And if my conspiracy hat was on I'd say that they both have their own in-house departments writing little pointless virusses to keep themselves in business! AVG has a history of messing up the vista windows update. (Not all PCs for some reason, just that it did on mine and the microsoft remote assistance guy told me its done it on a good few) Avast, as Animal suggests, seems to be the only one so far that has not done anything too bad to my windows system (vista). Although after my last re-build, I've just relied on windows and router in-built firewalls and a careful check on which websites I visit and what I download and install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shima60 Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 i tend to use command line based antiviruses and get it to run every sunday at like 3am works a treat and no slowdown, granted its not on all the time but 1 scan a week does me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Isn't it great feeling utterly superior? Hmm. I looked for all the games I play and Steam and productivity/creative stuff like the Source SDK and Vegas Pro and Cooledit and IPISoft and drivers for my hardware and and and well none of it was there on Linux Must be nice feeling superior surfing the internet and erm, pfft, emailing? Maybe? Although you can do that on phones now, I hear So no need for a hobbyist OS bricking your home machine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewOW Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Isn't it great feeling utterly superior? Yes, indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 i got AVG free its much better than norton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Hmm. I looked for all the games I play and Steam and productivity/creative stuff like the Source SDK and Vegas Pro and Cooledit and IPISoft and drivers for my hardware and and and well none of it was there on Linux Must be nice feeling superior surfing the internet and erm, pfft, emailing? Maybe? Although you can do that on phones now, I hear So no need for a hobbyist OS bricking your home machine I must admit that I do still use Windows for games, specifically Mass Effect 1 & 2 right now. If only I could afford a decent console. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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