Norton Anti(?)-Virus

Let me summarize before you begin. NAV is utter crap!

If that didn’t do the trick, let me elaborate. I know several people  who have various versions of Norton Anti(?)-Virus installed on their PCs.

Poor souls…

The reason why I just can’t stand this ‘utility’ is because it’s like spyware. Let me elaborate further:

• It creates a number of services, most of them junk.
• It implants itself in system32 (the Windows system folder)
• It’s a bloody RAM pig!
• It’s inefficient when scanning.
• It can crash your PC while scanning.
• Microsucks Office and NAV have paired up and Office scans each and every document before opening.
• LiveUpdate sucks. The update sizes are huge.
• It’s in a garish shade of yellow!
• There are reports that it can install viruses itself, and then scan them out, to show that it’s doing some work.
• It bugs you to renew your subscription all the time.

But what I really can’t understand is why do most OEMs (read Original Equipment Manufacturers – those companies like Dell, HP and Pavna ) give out such crap pre-installed on their PCs? They can quite as easily give out free alternatives like avast! and AVG. Ditto for sensible component manufacturers like Asus. I got Norton Anti-virus 2005 with their motherboard.

It’s actually sickening to see this monopoly of flimsy software. Now I know how Ankur feels about M$ (read Microsucks read Microsoft)

So I suggest that you change to either avast! or AVG anti-virus.  They are smaller,  FREE and quicker.