norton delay

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i recently had to reinstall norton av , some time ago someone told me how to
reduce the 30 seconds or so which norton takes to load, can anyone remind me
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Easy! Uninstall Norton. I'm NOT kidding.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Thanks Richard you may be right


Richard Urban said:
Easy! Uninstall Norton. I'm NOT kidding.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
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And replace it with what? MacAfeee? Trend Micro? Same difference. Or, some
freebee AV written by a stoned hacker in a drafty loft apt. over a cow barn? I've
tried most of the AV products and none of them are speed demons.

It takes a while to load the detectors for over 135K viruses. The very latest AV freebee
may load in four seconds but it may only detect 562 viruses. (That's because the stoned
hacker only knows about those 562.) I'll opt for the product that checks for 135K viruses
any day of the week, and is backed by the largest AV lab in the world. As they say in
France, "2 each his own."

And if you were talking about the Norton Suite, you'd still need to replace its functionality
with other products such as another AV (some expensive one such as AVG?), and the
buggy Zone Alarm Internet Suite, and still another anti-spyware product or two--all of them
contending for--and getting--resources, plus their sum acquisition total is more than Norton.

Yes, Symantec could do a much better job of integrating and managing resources. It's a
pig, but I have the resources so I don't lose sleep over it. I prefer having solid protection to
worrying whether the little AV shops know about the virulent new "richardsaysdumpnorton"
virus now spreading like wildfire.
 
thanks joe i have taken all that on board


Uncle Joe said:
And replace it with what? MacAfeee? Trend Micro? Same difference. Or, some
freebee AV written by a stoned hacker in a drafty loft apt. over a cow barn? I've
tried most of the AV products and none of them are speed demons.

It takes a while to load the detectors for over 135K viruses. The very latest AV freebee
may load in four seconds but it may only detect 562 viruses. (That's because the stoned
hacker only knows about those 562.) I'll opt for the product that checks for 135K viruses
any day of the week, and is backed by the largest AV lab in the world. As they say in
France, "2 each his own."

And if you were talking about the Norton Suite, you'd still need to replace its functionality
with other products such as another AV (some expensive one such as AVG?), and the
buggy Zone Alarm Internet Suite, and still another anti-spyware product or two--all of them
contending for--and getting--resources, plus their sum acquisition total is more than Norton.

Yes, Symantec could do a much better job of integrating and managing resources. It's a
pig, but I have the resources so I don't lose sleep over it. I prefer having solid protection to
worrying whether the little AV shops know about the virulent new "richardsaysdumpnorton"
virus now spreading like wildfire.
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