AnnaSucks

Yeah, another "no" vote for Norton. I don't know if it makes any difference if you install it yourself instead of buying a computer with Norton already installed, but the latter has given me so many headaches it's not even funny.

On my new pc it unfortunately came with the package. It uses too much of my resources as mentioned, disables .gif images in my browser, and now when the subscription is about to end it bugs me every day with alerts. And only now when they want me to re-subscribe, it's been reminding me that I'm "being protected against a rapidly spreading threat". It really seems that they want me to think I'll get attacked the second my subscription ends and the only way for me to be safe is to renew my subscription.

I'd unistall it this very second if I could be sure it didn't cause me even more problems. I tried unistalling it on my laptop a while ago as for example on top of the subscription alerts it scanned the the entire content of a folder every time I opened one. I'm sure you can imagine how much resources that eats.

Well, Norton just refused to be uninstalled, and not letting it start up when I start my computer caused even bigger problems. I was not able to get to secure https:// pages to name one. I had to do some reading about how to uninstall Norton, and judging from the amount of horror stories having an expired Norton on you're computer, bugging you till the end of time is the lesser of two evils.

I really wish the only way to get a computer without a 90 day Norton subscription wouldn't be to build one yourself. Or maybe I'm just stupid.

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