Yes, everything can fail. I cannot forget the time when a Norton
update shut me down. It was a long ways back and I don't remember the
details, but it was not pretty.

I am an old retired guy who has fallen into the trap of maintaining a
few family and church machines. Usually on my funds and always on my
time. Since I have a lot of more interesting stuff to do I like to
keep things simple as possible for me. Norton has 3-user packages that
are available on sale from time to time and I am the only one that
notices the performance hit. The background scans seem to be the worst
offender for me. I tend to run too many browser windows open at any
give time. Saving & restoring Tab groups has helped a lot there.

It is a good time for an old geek to be retired. Information is widely
available and lots of good guys to communicate with!

BTW and even further off topic, my clothes washing machine failed
early this week. I found a wealth of service info on YouTube which
saved me about $500! I will take me a few days to recover from the
physical efforts but it has been a very satisfying week!

Hopefully I will get some maintenance done on the tower this coming
week and get back to antennas...


On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:05:41 -0800, "K" wrote:

Bull****. I've seen Norton totally fail. I'm an IT guy that repairs this
stuff, and IMHO Norton itself is the same as a virus in many respects.

Its not true that 'everyones' suite sucks out performance, but as you say,
Norton sure does.

All most SUITE software is nothing more than an in-house firewall that is
substituted for the stock MS firewall.

K

John Ferrell W8CCW