Posted on 07/17/2024 10:19:21 AM PDT by Angelino97
I've long used Norton Anti-Virus (I think they used to be called Symantec). But I think it's a memory hog. Sometimes it seems to use all available CPU.
When I do a video screen capture on a movie that I'm playing, the movie records all jittery, full of pauses. I Disable Norton's Auto-Protect, but that doesn't help. I wonder if Norton is obeying me?
Norton foisted a VPN onto my computer. I tried it several times, but it never works, never makes a connection. Only tells me to try later.
When I renewed last year, I checked a box to not renew the VPN portion, but Norton's VPN is still there. And still not working, telling me to try again later.
Norton also stopped working on another computer I have. I tried to uninstall it -- very difficult and incomplete. It did ask me, why do I want to uninstall, since I still have about 200 days left on my subscription? When I reinstalled, Norton still wouldn't work on that computer
Any recommendations for a better anti-virus or firewall?
I'm on Windows 7, if that matters.
Switch to Linux and you won’t need an antivirus at all.
Norton completely protects you from viruses by sucking up all the CPU and RAM on the machine, this preventing viruses, or anything else from running.
Just use the built in Windows Defender AV and save you some money.
W7? It was a good OS but let it go
It is a virus.
I put it on a computer, did not like it, did an uninstall and it still interferes with the computer operation, it will not uninstall completely.
It is a virus, avoid it like the plague.
I used anti-virus software back in the early days (90’s, 2000’s, and slightly beyond). But I used to do a lot of downloading from the internet as well. Now I dont download much of anything thats not like a trusted document or similar. I dont ‘surf’ anymore. I have let my anti-virus subscriptions expire many years ago by now and have not had any problems. No one has gotten past my wifi firewall and I dont go near any suspicious sites.
Norton is a virus......................
Norton is a good antivirus system, but it is definitely a resource hog.
The built-in antivirus is usually good enough these days. Stay away from shady websites and for God’s sake, don’t download files from those places.
Good common sense will account for 95% of your computer’s security. Good rule of thumb: If it seems fishy, it probably is.
Or Mac for security and reliability and no need for such silliness as loading bloatware and viruses and needing to ask for advice on problems in the first place. No brainer that Windows IS the virus.
Norton can’t protect themselves from hackers:
https://cybernews.com/security/hackers-compromise-norton-password-manager/
Lol.
AVG somehow ended up on my work computer two days ago.
Took me two days to put everything back together.
bottom line
never trust the Chinese
I’m also using 2009 Win-7 Pro x64 (8Gb RAM) on an old HP once-speedy machine.
I still also use Norton Premium AV, 360, Utilities Ultimate since the mid-90s, when it all was Peter Norton Utilities, long before Symanntec took it over. Still use it, and it does suck-up all the memory. It’s caught numerous viruses and malware — also use MalwareBytes Premium — to protect me.
It works.
Stay away from Norton 360. That program is a virus itself! I use Comodo Internet Security on my Windows 7 device.
I still use Webroot SecureAnywhere (Plus or Complete), though it no longer receives the absolute top reviews. Not too expensive, very quick installation and scanning. Unlike Norton, it does not break other programs.
Hey, hey, hey. Don’t disss W7, I use it too, and I use Comodo Internet Security on it.
Yes. Switch to Mac.
I switched to Mac in 2010 after getting fed up reinstalling Windows to remove every last traces of virus. Never looked back. Best decision I made.
“No brainer that Windows IS the virus.”
Yes, it is completely out of control. So out of control the OP might have trouble finding an antivirus that will even let Win 7 support it.
“Your Operating System will not support this software. Please upgrade your Operating System to a later version.”
Kaspersky got a bad rap and was called Russian spyware when it caught documents that two different NSA contractors illegally took home and put on their home computers. The NSA puts a little piece of code into their electronic documents to identify the documents, and Kaspersky's heuristic analyzer found this and reported it as potential spyware.
Because the heuristic analyzer sends bits of code to their home servers for deep analysis, the NSA initially tried to cover up the crimes of their contractors by calling Kaspersky Russian spyware. Eventually, the FBI worked with Kaspersky to catch the NSA thieves, and Kaspersky ultimately moved their servers out of Russia to avoid the appearance of working with Russian intelligence.
-PJ
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