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| tony.silveira:
daemon allows me to mount cd images. i use it to mount discs for disc based console emulators. as for norton, i've always read exactly what you said but it's free with my internet account and other than the boot time issue i'm trying to sort out, i can honestly say i've been very happy with it. it's not a system hog for me (my idle time process is always at 99%) and it has caught many many worms for me. but maybe on my tinyxp install i'll give AVG a try |
| Nacimroc:
Norton is a disaster! Always has been! There are much more efficient better anti-virus progs out there.....BUT ....why does everyone use an antivirus anyway ? Surely most of you are using your PC's in cabs which most of you won't have connected to the internet! So why bother with one ? I know the original poster said he is using PC as normal, but if not, there is no need for an antivirus surely ? |
| newmanfamilyvlogs:
If its on a network, it needs an antivirus installed. You can be infected by another machine on the network with NO INTERACTION on your behalf. Wanna be scared? Go look up metasploit tutorials on youtube. |
| nipsmg:
Just get Microsoft Security Essentials. It's free, it works well, and it doesn't suck up resources. There's no need for commercial Anti-Virus really anymore, especially for home PC's. I agree, Norton and / or McAfee do nothing but suck up the majority of the host machine's resources and become a royal pain in the ass. There's no benefit. |
| tony.silveira:
just curious on sucking up a machines resources? i'm the IT geek in my group of friends and i ALWAYS used to tell them to steer clear of norton. when i installed NAV from my service provider (hey, it's free) just to give the newest version a shot, i fully expected to be uninstalling it within a day or two. much to my surprise, it doesn't seem to be slowing or impacting my machine during use, save the extended boot times that started this thread. checking my process monitor, i'm running a steady 99% "system idle". on top of that, it's caught bugs for me and blocks attacks when visiting shady sites. so i'm just curious about what norton does to machines nowadays? i'm not baiting here, like i said, just curious :) |
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