Norton Firewall slooows connection?

[Shaun]

I run Norton AV and Norton Firewall (separate products) on my Dell 4550 2.8Ghz and now I'm with Bulldog my machine flys, its wonderful, I just wish I'd switched earlier.

People are right, Norton can be resource hungry, but I've only ever had trouble with it once, but a reinstall sorted that out. Saying that I'm going to give the new Kaspersky firewall a look with mine comes up for renewal, its suppose to be excellent,

[vwman]

Is McAfee better on system resources then?

[br3ach]

Originally Posted by Sociable

Nice system kedoo

Has anybody introduced you to the "Swap Shop" thread yet?

Thanks

Well, no ...

Why? What you have in mind

[Sociable]

Originally Posted by vwman

Is McAfee better on system resources then?

Actually can't answer that directly myself as haven't used the norton for several years. I like others am just going by the number of systems I have been asked to fix where "issues" with Norton have been part of the problem.

Not saying Norton was always entirely to blame as often an uninstall and reinstall would sort the problem. That said I have never had anything like as many issues on systems running McAfee instead.

[DrAwesome]

Originally Posted by vwman

I am thinking of a PC upgrage ( currently P3 500mhz 256RAM W98SE ) do you think a DELL 8300 3.2ghz 512RAM WXP would cope with Norton Internet 2004 any better?

Thanks for advice

with regards to your slow problem I would suggest you boot your w98se in safe mode and see if you have anything installed more than once especially your norton firewall.

I would consider buying a linksys router with a built in hardware firewall as they are cheap as chips at the moment £36.48 from amazon.co.uk

[abailey152]

Originally Posted by Kedoo

If you have allready bought NAV 2004 then yes it will run a little better on the faster system obviously, but if you are shopping around and need advice on the best one to use, then go Mcafee...

I'd agree with that regarding the anti-virus alone. McAfee is quicker and less resource hungry, but I tried their firewall and was not impressed at all.

I like Norton's firewall, so I tend to run NAV as they tie together (in NIS). I used to run an old version of McAfee and ZoneAlarm but started getting grief when I moved to XP. I then tried Kaspersky AVP...arrrggghhh!!!! Nothing but problems! As I said, I've tried the new McAfee and was impressed by the AV but not the firewall. I also tried the two products included with Ontrack Systemsuite. The firewall didn't impress, and the AV (Trend) missed a trojan (fully updated btw), so I then tried Norton. Yes it does slow the system down, but it seems to get along with everything I run, and it doesn't seem to miss anything.

And that's the key, I think. It depends a lot on what you are running as to what suits.