R
R. McCarty
Just an FYI on Symantec's annual update of their product line.
Since I've been pretty rough on Symantec, I thought I'd check
out their Public Beta for NAV-2006 and see if they've made
any significant changes to it. It is a public Beta, so I'll have to
concede that the final production version may be "Better."
First off, they have added a few features to it. The problem is
NAV is still heavy on system resources. The boot time is very
similar to 2004/2005 versions. Internet Worm Protection is
built-in, but I think that was also in the 2005 NAV.
The service mappings are similar, with CCSetMgr.Exe and
ccEvtMgr.Exe being the heaviest on memory. Also a new
service called NSCSrvce.Exe. Total service memory is around
24 Megabytes.
Live update looks almost identical to last years iteration. Seems
to have some form of "Trusted Application Tables" as that comes
up as a Live Update Item. Live Update seemed slow and during
it's processing the CPU usage went to 100% and stay saturated
while it scanned & downloaded updates.
Scan times haven't changed either.
Product Activation still in place - No changes there, same type
of Startup interface to activate and set program options. Does
present a screen to use their "Worm Protection" instead of MS's
Firewall and override it's security warnings. The whole "1st-Boot"
process is just as slow as before. A couple of times, I was
thinking the process had "Frozen", but it eventually finished up.
Thought that this year they might make an effort to re-work it -
but looks like another $29.95 marginal update.
Since I've been pretty rough on Symantec, I thought I'd check
out their Public Beta for NAV-2006 and see if they've made
any significant changes to it. It is a public Beta, so I'll have to
concede that the final production version may be "Better."
First off, they have added a few features to it. The problem is
NAV is still heavy on system resources. The boot time is very
similar to 2004/2005 versions. Internet Worm Protection is
built-in, but I think that was also in the 2005 NAV.
The service mappings are similar, with CCSetMgr.Exe and
ccEvtMgr.Exe being the heaviest on memory. Also a new
service called NSCSrvce.Exe. Total service memory is around
24 Megabytes.
Live update looks almost identical to last years iteration. Seems
to have some form of "Trusted Application Tables" as that comes
up as a Live Update Item. Live Update seemed slow and during
it's processing the CPU usage went to 100% and stay saturated
while it scanned & downloaded updates.
Scan times haven't changed either.
Product Activation still in place - No changes there, same type
of Startup interface to activate and set program options. Does
present a screen to use their "Worm Protection" instead of MS's
Firewall and override it's security warnings. The whole "1st-Boot"
process is just as slow as before. A couple of times, I was
thinking the process had "Frozen", but it eventually finished up.
Thought that this year they might make an effort to re-work it -
but looks like another $29.95 marginal update.