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I have Norton Antivirus and everytime it does something it slows my computer down. - PAMT

Posted: Apr 11, 2012

Hard to work when it does that. I have stopped the full system scan and made it at night but Norton still does other things and of course checks all emails and the computer just slows down so far it is hard to work until it is done.

My tech guy said Norton itself was an antivirus - Happy MT Robin

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This was when I was having to have my laptop completely redone after I picked up a massive virus while running Norton.

He recommended Microsoft Security Essentials which is free which I use now. I also use Malware Bytes which is $25 per computer and I haven't had a problem since.

Norton stinks, it is a memory hog - sm - Zorro

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I tried it twice, why again after it blew up my one computer I will never know. But the second time (this was about 10+ years later, decided to try it again), it just slows up everything just as you are experiencing. Any computer geek I have spoken to says not to use Norton. I use AVG Anti-virus, love it. Can put it on multiple computers too. I find AVG is one of the only ones out there that does not mess up my email (I have the spam feature and email screening turned off). I see my nightly scan at 2am finds a virus about 2 x a year, I presume something new that got thru before the AVG upgrade that day. But I have not had issues even when that happens. But there are a lot of good free virus protection programs out there

But for your sanity dump the Norton's.

Also used AVG but with a twist - ICManiac

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I have an all-in-one machine and it "goes to sleep" after a certain period of time. When that happens, it disconnects from the internet connection, which is a great feature to protect intrusions when you are away from your machine. The problem came when AVG was automatically downloading its virus defititions and the internet disconnect occured. My computer locked up and failed to go through the start up process on reboot.

I took it to a local computer service company and paid $45 to have them do a re-install to the morning prior to the problem. They were able to reinstall AVG and everything returned to normal.

In hindsight, I can tell you it doesn't matter what antivirus you use if you have an all-in-one machine. That would happen regardless of what antivirus you used. Having had a lot of slow reboots due to Norton, I would rather have AVG. BTW, I have since replaced my hard drive and installed a different operating system on my all-in-one machine and then installed a different antivirus program with no problems - all thanks to the going to sleep issue being handled differently by the new operating system. I do recommend AVG now and so do my computer support gurus :)

I was using Avast - used to be great

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and all the sudden it started messing with my reference books...wouldnt open them up and some I had to reinstall..being a work computer only Im flying solo without anything...and reinstalling books ugh

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