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Norton Anti Virus has gotten hammered as a poor product. A system hog with lack luster performance by many reviews all over the net, not just here. I didn't realize how true those comments against Norton were until........

I was spurred into looking for another Anti Virus program when my renewal for Norton came up. I knew no matter what I was not going to pay for another year of Norton. Although Norton had done a fine job of keeping virus's off my system it also slowed down my AMD 1.58 GHz machine to the point where it was uncomfortable to use. Was the slower performance of my machine just in my mind?

So I uninstalled Norton before the Symantec police came to my house and beat me for being disloyal and not renewing my subscription. I installed Avast Home edition. A free program. Wow! it's like upgrading your computer! Norton had loaded my system down to the point I wondered if I was using a 486 machine again. The difference in system performance was like night and day. Someone with a higher spec machine may not notice the difference as much as I did. But hey Symantec, are you making software only for dedicated high end gaming machines and robust servers? How about us little guys with slower machines?

If you want to upgrade you computer, uninstall Norton and put just about anything else in the way of virus protection on in it's place for a real system boost.

I miss the days when Symantec produced quality high performance software. If they could cut the overhead down on Norton and reduce the cost I would use it again. But for now, until I see some improvements in Symantec software - I'm out.

Added: April 8th 2005

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