agree 100%. The most common thing I see are users installing (or buying a computer with it preinstalled) Norton Antivirus thinking that it will "protect" them and then complain that their computer is slow.
Chris Nixon
· 1 year ago
What is worrying is this is sold as a benefit for your PC. These companies are taking advatage of people's ignorance of the problem.
Tate
· 1 year ago
It took me forever to get Norton off my laptop. I had the same problem.
Chris Nixon
· 1 year ago
...and Norton are definitely not the only culprits!
Russ G
· 1 year ago
I agree completely as I had Norton 360 on one of my PC's and it was an absolute pain to remove and I hadn't realized how slow the PC had become until it was gone! Plus 360 is sold as a simple user friendly solution that does it all for you with little knowledge required and in that read....we load it all on for you, configure it automatically then make it impossible to remove unless you know what your doing!
Jonathan
· 1 year ago
Excellent post - and I agree with you. I have recently looked at Kaspersky and was horrified by the performance hit the PC took. I ended up installing Avira as a "good enough" solution.
I have seen a machine pre-installed with Norton where it could not be removed before. Not nice.
Orlandin
· 1 year ago
For Christ sake, why is it that every time someone has a gripe about a Windows based machine it has to end with "buy a Mac"? Guess what, Norton is just as big of a pain on a Mac. People are writing virus for Macs. It is not the God system. It doesn't even have 9% of the computer market share (http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/...) Uninstall the program, find something better, and move on. If that is the least of your problems; consider yourself lucky.
Chris Nixon
· 1 year ago
Ahhh Orlandin. Thanks for popping by and not really reading the post. I gave three solutions for PC users. I'm a PC user for goodness sake. The problem, as you so completely ignored, is how difficult it is to uninstall the software.
charlie
· 11 months ago
Ubuntu is a great alternative without having to buy a mac. it can be customizes to look like a Windows or Mac computer too.
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I have seen a machine pre-installed with Norton where it could not be removed before. Not nice.
Uninstall the program, find something better, and move on. If that is the least of your problems; consider yourself lucky.