"Norton sucks the air out of performance"
I agree!

I had a family client that I set up with AVG Free. It failed,
situation beyond my skills, reload XP Home required...
Maybe it would have done the job if I had opted for the pay version.



On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:21:03 -0800, Richard Clark
wrote:

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:14:04 +0000 (UTC), david
wrote:

I don't trust anything by Norton.

Norton may be trustworthy. I say that in spite of your feelings
because for my friends who use it, they do not suffer any attacks.
However, they do suffer from its huge resource drain and my friends'
most consistent complaint is how SLOW their system is.

Norton sucks the air out of performance.

Myself, I use Comodo for its firewall (and turn off its virus
detection); and I use AVG (free) for virus detection. I also use
Process Explorer (a very elaborate Task Manager) to look at the system
usage. Even as I write this, my system has 96-98% CPU capacity left
as it should. Any AVG process barely demands more than a quarter
percent CPU cycles.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC
John Ferrell W8CCW