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.
I do the exact same!
I use the built-in AV in Windows 11 PLUS>>>>>
MalwareBytes (free version)
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