Harry,
McAffee antivirus is following the same business model, in recent
versions at home I notice it is taking a real toll on my machine cycles. Even
though I do not have it doing scans on file open or run, nor scanning in the
background. So I really don't know what is taking up the processor resources
but it started with one of my latest McAfee upgrades.
The general comments about Norton, I have heard them as well from a
number of sources that I would trust.
Sincerely,
Brad Velander
Senior PCB Designer
Northern Airborne Technology
1925 Kirschner Rd.,
Kelowna, BC, V1Y 4N7.
tel (250) 763-2329 ext. 225
fax (250) 762-3374
-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Selfridge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: August 24, 2005 6:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Protel EDA Discussion List
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Norton Antivirus software... interfere with Protel?
I would second the suggestion to abandon the Norton software. I was one of
Peter Norton's first customers back in the good old DOS days. His software
was solid and did a few really useful jobs in DOS and early MS Windows
versions.
After he sold his stuff to Symantec, the products began to show quirky
behavior, and after a couple of years became the source of many problems
with Windows 3.1, 95 and 98. I eventually began recommending to anyone who
would listen, that the first thing to do when having consistent crashes or
lockups was UNINSTALL all Symantec products. That advice fixed more
computers than I can count.
I haven't used a Symantec/Norton product since, and I haven't missed
them. For anti-virus protection, there are alternatives such as McAfee and
Kaspersky that have caused me less grief than the years of fighting with
Symantec.
Harry Selfridge
Encore Engineering Services and Products
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