computer very slow because of norton anti-virus

• ah-soh

  18 Nov 07, 18:20

  I have been using Norton antivirus (renewed my subscription for 1 year during June) but I have found that with norton anti-virus installed on my comp it seems to be making my comp very slow.
  
  At first when I installed norton I only needs 2-3 minutes to start the comp before i can connect to the internet but now i needs almost 10 minutes before i can connect to the net. i tried removing unwanted programmes and files in my comp but to no avail.
  
  worse still, on most occasions, after i connected to the net and when norton is doing auto update my comp will hang for a couple of minutes before resuming to normal.
  
  so may i know what can i do to counter this problem and are there better anti virus tools besides norton? thks
• mhcampboy

  18 Nov 07, 18:24

  Did you know.. some people say... norton anti virus is a virus software itself...
• ndmmxiaomayi

  18 Nov 07, 18:45

  Norton is so good, that it lags.
• dumbdumb!

  18 Nov 07, 18:51

  i'm using Nod32
• Xcert

  18 Nov 07, 18:52

  
  
  got trial version for u to try
• LatecomerX

  18 Nov 07, 19:09

  Dump Norton, get Kaspersky.
  
• Erwin_Rommel

  19 Nov 07, 08:23

  Originally posted by ah-soh:

  I have been using Norton antivirus (renewed my subscription for 1 year during June) but I have found that with norton anti-virus installed on my comp it seems to be making my comp very slow.
  
  At first when I installed norton I only needs 2-3 minutes to start the comp before i can connect to the internet but now i needs almost 10 minutes before i can connect to the net. i tried removing unwanted programmes and files in my comp but to no avail.
  
  worse still, on most occasions, after i connected to the net and when norton is doing auto update my comp will hang for a couple of minutes before resuming to normal.
  
  so may i know what can i do to counter this problem and are there better anti virus tools besides norton? thks

  Kaspersky and NOD32.
  
  Norton,McAfee and Trend Micro all 3 are known to lag the computer.
• caleb_chiang

  19 Nov 07, 08:28

  Check for unwanted program running in the back ground...
  
  Since you renew in June, then you should had installed the norton before... if before also lag, why renew?
• Manager433

  19 Nov 07, 22:40

  One month after my Norton System Works 2006 expire in Sept 07, my pc go up the lorry on the 31th Oct 07. Reasons: My HDD crashed coz the expired antivirus unable to detect and protect my pc against trojan horse.
  
  Now I juz DIY my pc few days back wif help of a frenz. And I bought Norton Internet Security 2007 again.
• selfobliged

  19 Nov 07, 22:44

  I'm using AVG =P
• MingFreeman

  20 Nov 07, 20:54

  AVG and Avast have positive reviews and dun slow down your comp