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Originally Posted by geminian68

Hi piquet41

I recently stopped using NIS 2005 after using Symantec for 5 years since 2000 I have used most of their products (AV, NPF, Systemworks, Utilities, CleanSweep, Ghost, PC Anywhere, CrashGuard, Partition Magic*) (*since they have taken over PowerQuest), When I said I got sick of it's resource hogging I meant when I did a virus scan it used an awful lot of CPU & Memory.

I also had the same situation as Wayne A, when Norton didn't find viruses and PC-Cillin Housecall's online scan did.

I now use BitDefender 8.0 Professional* which is similar to NPF(*AV, Firewall, Anti-Spam) which doesn't seem as hogging of resources and unlike Norton it doesn't require activation.

I have AMD XP3200+ (2.2GHz)
1024Mb PC3200 Dual Channel DDR RAM

P.S. I have:
Norton Antivirus 2005 Corporate Edition
Norton Antivirus 2005 Pro
Norton Internet Security 2005
Norton Systemworks 2005
Norton Ghost 2005
Partition Magic 2005.... and no I DON'T work for Symantec either.

geminian68

Hi germinian68,

Simillar spec PCs' I see, thanks for you advice and links. i've had a look at them and will keep them in mind. But until I have something go wrong (fingers crossed) or contract a virus that Norton does not pick up then I'll stick with it.....You know the saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
VMT
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