Do you love or hate Norton?

Norton can sometimes piss me off but overall I like it for home use

I fucking hate it with a passion.

lmao y do you hate it so much

It fucking uses soooooooooo damned much processing power, and just fucking slows everything down doesn't let you move for fucking security warnings and just makes life hell. I get fustrated just thinking about the how clustraphobic( sp?) it makes me feel.

i hate norton, it basicly takes over your pc and it doesnt help that much for me. There are other programs that do more than norton and much better like sygate or nod32 :)..

i personally HATE norton.

I use Kaspersky and NOD32.

Norton eats up ur resources, infects u with more shit than its protecting u from (spyware, adware, detects safe files such as a port scanner or a firewall as a virus)

its not cause a program is populair (like norton) that it have to be good. (compere MS with lunix!) personaly i don't like norton there are alot beter then that! to bad they are not thet good known!!

wolfmankurd wrote: I fucking hate it with a passion.

To put it simply I totally agree.

lnce wrote: [quote]wolfmankurd wrote: I fucking hate it with a passion.

To put it simply I totally agree. [/quote]

agreed

ha ha im trying to get parents to take it off the comp they wont listen to me they say its GOOD

Its fast, fast, efficient, fast, reliable, small updates, frequent updates, & did I mention its fast?

god, its not the fact that norton is so slow… or the fact that its unreliable… or that it doesn't REALLY work… just that its been idolized by some many newbies like this guy up here^ who seem to think that hey, its from a 'reputable' vendor, it MUST be good. If guys like this were shown what norton can actually do they might stop and think about it for a second and get an anti-virus prog that actually works.

I use VET btw, you probably haven't heard of it

^totally agree with you guys norton sucks the weener 0.o. But i dont really know what to use beside it? any suggestions?

norton keeps poping up for NO REASON what so ever

I hate norton retail, love norton corp. Retail has just been getting worse in terms of resource consumption, bloatware and being far too 'in your face'. I've never seen an antivirus program act so 'look at me, I'm protecting you!'. It's like having a noob live in your taskbar.

That being said, norton corp is the exact opposite. It never pops up at all, auto updates properly, and uses 0% cpu and <4 megs of ram which is how an AV program should be. =)

guess ill get what one u have I hate mine I was running a hacking program and it wouldent even let me run it its like taken control of my comp

Hmmmm, well I now use microsoft anti-spyware beta for spyware obv., windows firewall to keep you lot out, avg antivirus, and mtes condoms for viruses

Norton suks. Some times when i try to run exploits it says that im being attacked by myself. Then i try it again and it works with no errors. Plus it does take up a shit load of memory :( .

lol, I hated norton too, kept pulling up random total system scans that came up with at least a few hundred virii each time (they were like classified as hacktool.portscanner, wtf portscanners are now virii?)

So I just disabled all norton related stuff in the startup (msconfig) and now I just use it when I need to scan for something or a monthly virus scan of my harddrive ;)

I dont like montholey virsus scans because what if somethings on their and u dont know it

hacking_noob wrote: I dont like montholey virsus scans because what if somethings on their and u dont know it

…What? I don't think I follow you…

ok you know how you said you like monthley scans well norton scans reguarley and what if there is a virsus on your comp for a whole month screwing with things before you know it

ok I see now ;D

ok I see now ;D

AGV is the best. Kerpasity takes 3 days to scan HaHa but it's good.

i hate norton,idiots think that its good cuz its so popularized,but IMO i think it sucks the cock. i stick with McAfee its saved me a few times from some lamers who sent me viruses (before i knew how to detect trojans in emails,i kept getting them :@)

I HATE NORTON. Ever since I got it bundled with my system it kept crashing my system, so I trashed it. And last week, a cousin of mine, brought a DVD with him and put it in. I found that there were lots of hidden EXE files in them. I got suspicious. My cousin said it was a harmless virus found in all his friend's systems. He said that even the latest version of Norton couldn't detect it. Well, I am not one to allow a program to run without my permission on MY SYSTEM however harmless it may be..!! I fired up AVG and it instantly gave me an alert. I popped out that DVD and never put it in again :D .

Thomas

thomasantony wrote: I HATE NORTON. Ever since I got it bundled with my system it kept crashing my system, so I trashed it. And last week, a cousin of mine, brought a DVD with him and put it in. I found that there were lots of hidden EXE files in them. I got suspicious. My cousin said it was a harmless virus found in all his friend's systems. He said that even the latest version of Norton couldn't detect it. Well, I am not one to allow a program to run without my permission on MY SYSTEM however harmless it may be..!! I fired up AVG and it instantly gave me an alert. I popped out that DVD and never put it in again :D .

Thomas

your cousin doesnt like you to much does he?:p

Gah, Norton is such a pain in the arse. Why do they bother adding the 'exeptions' option? It still scans those files and deletes em as a virus. What I hate about Norton is that it doesnt ask you what to do. Its programmed to automatically DELETE FILE like a headless chicken without asking you to. I can't get Cain & Abel to run without it being DELETED as a virus! LOL, I turned off Norton and it still blocked and deleted cain…

it saves my but A LOT though

hacking_noob wrote: it saves my but A LOT though lol…. any of the other better anti-virus programs can do same thing i currently use AVG right now

whats that?

We have used Symantec Anticirus Corperate Edition for longer than I have been here and my experiences with it sum up to… It Sucks.

despite having up to date defs. we still got a nasty virus on our webserver… and a slew of other problems

I personally hate Norton AV it was bundled on my system and everytime I tried to exclude a program it still found and destroyed it then eventually something happened to one of it's drivers and it destroyed one of my HD's and corrupted the MBR on the other so I switched to AVG and it's done me proud long story short new comp has AVG b/c norton blows

I know my dad says its good though so I must keep it on grrr

Lain wrote: We have used Symantec Anticirus Corperate Edition for longer than I have been here and my experiences with it sum up to… It Sucks.

despite having up to date defs. we still got a nasty virus on our webserver… and a slew of other problems

How exactly did you manage that? I could possibly understand it on an Exchange server or Active Directory.. But a web server? Was this Windows Server 2000 or 2003? Or by the slimmest chance was this Posix?

thousandtoone wrote: [quote]Lain wrote: We have used Symantec Anticirus Corperate Edition for longer than I have been here and my experiences with it sum up to… It Sucks.

despite having up to date defs. we still got a nasty virus on our webserver… and a slew of other problems

How exactly did you manage that? I could possibly understand it on an Exchange server or Active Directory.. But a web server? Was this Windows Server 2000 or 2003? Or by the slimmest chance was this Posix?[/quote]

well I left out the fact that the IT director is a "tad" laid back and the box was still running NT 4.0 with IIS 4, oh yea and he hadn't upgraded the antivirus since 7.6, when the 9.0 disc was sitting on his desk… I think it may have been an IIS or windows exploit, but regardless the antivirus was clueless :p