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Anybody use Norton's? - shipwrecked

Posted: Mar 06, 2010

My cable company is taking away our McAfee in May, and giving us Norton. I think I tried it years ago and hated it. Any thoughts?

It's bloated and can really slow down a system, IMO. (sm) - CM

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Although a few folks like it, many of us have found both McAfee and Norton/Symantec to be terribly bloated, system-hogging, and not worth the licensing fees.

Whether you are looking just for an antivirus program or a "suite" including AV, firewall, and spyware protection, there are many free alternatives. Alwil's Avast! AV is excellent. Avira's AV program is great, too, and AVG is certainly okay. Comodo puts out a full free firewall/AV/spyware suite.

Norton should be avoided in my opinion.

Norton - workingmt

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I've never had it on a work PC, only my home computers. I'm not a fan, used to think it was the best until I tried others. I agree, it slows things down and always took a long time to load when I had to reboot my PC. Do you have to use the one your cable company provides? There are a lot of good antivirus and security suites available, even some free downloads that you might like better than Norton.

Thanks guys - shipwrecked

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With Comcast, they give (gave) us the McAfe Suite free, and are now changing to Norton, which they claim is a $160 value. I think I'll look elsewhere, since I haven't heard anything good about it.

Used to use Norton but now I use AVG. Have had no problems with it in 2 years. - Sunshine State MT

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I use NOD32 and love it. Love it. - RawRecruit

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Norton places far too great a drag on a system. I've got Norton on the family desktop and that is one slow machine. On my working PC I have NOD32, it's great.

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