norton 2004 slowed me down

[rodger murray]

after installing norton 2004 my presario is really
slow,it is slow at every thing it does now,I mean really
slow! just to boot up and check my e-mail can be 20
minuts.question is,is this what its come to for security?
or is maybe norton taken over more then just viruses?does
anyone have any ideas to speed my computer back up?or
should I get rid some, or all of this norton app.

 

[Guest]

after installing norton 2004 my presario is really
slow,it is slow at every thing it does now,I mean really
slow! just to boot up and check my e-mail can be 20
minuts.question is,is this what its come to for security?
or is maybe norton taken over more then just viruses?does
anyone have any ideas to speed my computer back up?or
should I get rid some, or all of this norton app.

Norton product's are well known for 'hogging' system resources, I no longer
use Norton products because of this.

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

There are many uninformed persons out there that perpetuate the myth that
Norton products "Hog" memory. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

I am currently running an AMD 64 3200+ on an ASUS K8V SE motherboard with
1GB of Corsair XMS 3200LLPT RAM. I Run Norton Internet Security (NAV,
Norton Personal Firewall), Norton Anti-Spam, and Norton Password Manger. My
system still benchmarks at the same as it did prior to the installation of
the Norton Products. I have 5 computers at home, and 23 at work that I am
responsible for maintaining. All of them run at least Norton Internet
Security. *NONE* of them are slowed down at all.
Those that *DO* experience resource problems or slowdowns have other issues
with their computers that are causing the problems.

There is a reason that Norton Antivirus has been the #1 selling AV program
in both the Consumer and Business sectors for 7 years straight.

If installed on a stable, well maintained system, Symantec/Norton products
will not have any impact on performance or speed of your system.

Bobby

 

[me]

Norton product's are well known for 'hogging' system resources, I no longer
use Norton products because of this.

I haven't noticed NAV causing any slowing down of my Dell 4550 256MB
Ram 2.4 Ghz.

Nor did I notice it slowing down a Win95 133Mhz PC.
.... except when doing a scan system for viruses, which involves a lot
of disk transfers.

 

[Unknown]

A much more basic issue is " do you really need Norton ".