Comments on: Norton AntiVirus is the Worst Program Ever http://www.belshe.com/2006/11/15/norton-antivirus-is-the-worst-program-ever/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:34:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jamie Plucinski http://www.belshe.com/2006/11/15/norton-antivirus-is-the-worst-program-ever/#comment-16589 Jamie Plucinski Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:54:12 +0000 http://www.belshe.com/2006/11/15/norton-antivirus-is-the-worst-program-ever/#comment-16589 Norton is evil, it's always been evil and bloated and always will be. My ISP recently "upgraded" to Norton Antivirus from CA Antivirus and I'd never used CA for more than a day or so (it didn't detect much) and went back to NOD32 but it was still a hell of a lot better than Norton. When I get a virus my computer is slow, but it keeps the computer alive so it can go on with it's evil business, when I install Norton my computer is even slower and stops the computer from working at all. Given a choice between the two and I'd take the virus every time. And don't think Norton's uninstaller does a good job, it doesn't your computer probably still has enough Norton crap in it to require a re-install in a few days. Personally I remove Norton's software using their own SymNRT tool that does a thorough job, you can get it here http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039 Norton is evil, it’s always been evil and bloated and always will be. My ISP recently “upgraded” to Norton Antivirus from CA Antivirus and I’d never used CA for more than a day or so (it didn’t detect much) and went back to NOD32 but it was still a hell of a lot better than Norton.

When I get a virus my computer is slow, but it keeps the computer alive so it can go on with it’s evil business, when I install Norton my computer is even slower and stops the computer from working at all. Given a choice between the two and I’d take the virus every time.

And don’t think Norton’s uninstaller does a good job, it doesn’t your computer probably still has enough Norton crap in it to require a re-install in a few days. Personally I remove Norton’s software using their own SymNRT tool that does a thorough job, you can get it here http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039

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