On Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:05:41 PM UTC-6, K wrote:


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

That's a fairly close assessment. :/ I'm running Norton Suite here,
mainly because I get it from Comcast. So far, I think it is
doing a better job at blocking terrorists than the McAfee suite
that Comcast used to use. I got whacked pretty bad once when running
McAfee suite, and the byte terrorists bug actually turned off and
disabled the McAfee suite. I finally got that cleared up, but it was
one of the hardest infections to totally clean up I had run across
so far. So far, bang on wood, Norton suite has not let anything through,
and in fact has caught a couple of bugs since I started using it.
I don't find the Norton Suite a constant resource hog, actually very
low most of the time. But.. I sometimes notice short term slowdowns
when it's doing one of it's processes. IE: new sig downloads, scans, etc..
Sometimes I'll see it when watching a movie. It will freeze or jitter
my video for a second, then the load idles back down. It never lasts
longer than a second or two. I've always assumed Norton was causing that,
being as there is no other real reason for it. And I'm running a quad core,
so no real lack of horsepower to keep up with the video.

So I can tell something pulls a momentary hard load every once in a while.
I used to use AVG, but quit for some reason I can't even remember..
Seems they went to a new version or something and I decided to switch to
the suites being as I get them pseudo free from Comcast.
But in the overall scheme of things, the puter runs the same as it
ever did.. No constant slowdown at all.
Right now I've got 9 browser windows open, mail, Windows Explorer file
manager, and still idling along at an average 1-2 % CPU use.
You can see some spikes, but a lot of that is moving the mouse, etc..
So far, bang on wood, nothing has been able to whack me since I have
been using the Norton Suite. I'm sure there is always a first time though.
I never feel totally invincible no matter what I'm running.
http://home.comcast.net/~nm5k/cpu.jpg