Well guys 'n gals,
I have had my fare share of crashes and hangups, but -strange enough
(?) - none at home. Here I have the Norman Virus Control and Personal
Firewall running. After a very short fiddling time I got the things
up and running and it has never bothered me since.
Automated updates, email and cell phone warnings when a really nasty
one hits the world, great service (at least here in the Netherlands)
and not even expensive. And no, I am NOT associated in any way with
that company. I was just one of the first users of that package in
the DOS days when it was called Thunderbyte and consisted of a
plugin-card and a small driver. Later they switched to a full
software solution an shortly after that the sold the company to Norman.
At work, they decided on Norton when McAfee started to cause system
crashes after the last Windows security update (!) and after
installing I needed an extra guy with a whip, beating on a drum to
get my system to do any work at all ;) Tried several de- and
re-installs from seceral sources but all to no avail. After the final
de-install all was back to a sort of normal.
Probably will end up using two machines: one for the real work
without Norton and one for the office stuff and internet with Norton...
Leo
At 25/08/05 03:59, Brad Velander wrote:
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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