re: Windows Defender /Norton 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE
(7096 messages posted)
Norton products started to develop a "bad reputation" around the same time that it
began to leave obfuscated registry entries on a system to try to protect itself against
the trick of uninstalling it then reinstalling to get another year of free defintion
updates. That's the root of all the complaints about not being able to completely
uninstall Norton products from a system.
Norton products also developed a "bad reputation" for being a "resource hog" (a phrase
normally uttered by the Norton "haters" LOL) because Symantec retained or added additional
functions (some of which, while useful back in the day of Norton Commander et al,
are of dubious value today) in the several different Norton suites; these functions
necessarily added complexity and "weight" to the product compared to the almighty
FREE simple AV programs. Objective comparison tests done by the computer magazines
measured the overhead that AV and security suites and showed that Norton products
were always pretty much mid-pack in the slow-down department. No AV or security
product can do its job while exacting zero impact on a system.
IME Norton's 2009 products are without question their best products ever.
Having said that, I regularly install AVG Free Edition on the computers of qualifying
customers who do not want to spend the money on a commercial product.
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