Silly Symantec

7/30/2008

Ever heard the saying "Hi we are from the Government and we are here to help?". Key words to be scared of. The first thing I do on any computer that someone brings to be that they say is slow or having problem is to remove all Norton and Symantec software. So when I saw this blog post at GottaBeMobile, I fell out of my chair.

Here is a screenshot, and the original post if you are interested. I love one of the Technorati tags they gave it as well.

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Tommi Prami 2008-07-31 08:42:56 Ok, Symantec, Norton and our Finnish "pride and joy" F-Secure are recourse hogs. But are there any tests which Virus and/or Firewall software would be light fast and user friendly? Easy to say (what I do all the time :D) that this software is not good, but ould do more good to find good alternative...
Brent Shelton 2008-09-02 10:54:01 Avira AntiVir Personal 8 works well for me under Vista Ultimate. Here is a list of resource usage: http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/07/11/which-free-antivirus-is-the-lightest-on-system-memory-usage/
Chad Z. Hower 2008-09-02 11:11:11 I've had good luck with AVG. I hear Avira and Kaspersky are quite good as well. I remove any thing Norton/Symantec instantly from any system I work on. I'm using Computer Associates - but thats because I connect to the MS network and its required to run that. I'm quite happy with it, but I think its expensive if you dont have access to it otherwise. I also know of a center that is using something called ClamWin - I havent dug into it, but I havent noticed any problems with it.
Jonathan Dickinson 2008-09-16 08:16:49 Clamwin works very well for me. The only 'gripe' is that they are still developing the automatic scanner. With a little discipline I check all foreign sources of data with it before I open them (especially flash disks). Seeing as it doesn't scan automatically, it is really fast :).

Tommi Prami 2008-07-31 08:42:56
Ok,

Symantec, Norton and our Finnish "pride and joy" F-Secure are recourse hogs. But are there any tests which Virus and/or Firewall software would be light fast and user friendly? Easy to say (what I do all the time :D) that this software is not good, but ould do more good to find good alternative...

Brent Shelton 2008-09-02 10:54:01
Avira AntiVir Personal 8 works well for me under Vista Ultimate. Here is a list of resource usage:

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/07/11/which-free-antivirus-is-the-lightest-on-system-memory-usage/

Chad Z. Hower 2008-09-02 11:11:11
I've had good luck with AVG. I hear Avira and Kaspersky are quite good as well. I remove any thing Norton/Symantec instantly from any system I work on.

I'm using Computer Associates - but thats because I connect to the MS network and its required to run that. I'm quite happy with it, but I think its expensive if you dont have access to it otherwise.

I also know of a center that is using something called ClamWin - I havent dug into it, but I havent noticed any problems with it.

Jonathan Dickinson 2008-09-16 08:16:49
Clamwin works very well for me. The only 'gripe' is that they are still developing the automatic scanner. With a little discipline I check all foreign sources of data with it before I open them (especially flash disks).

Seeing as it doesn't scan automatically, it is really fast :).

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