does norton anti-virus 2006 slow down your pc?
353523
It can if you have an old computer, but if you have better than the minimum requirements listed for the software you shouldn't notice any changes.
1016072
AVG works best in tandem with programs like Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-Aware, and one other free antivirus of your choice (like say Mcafee Stinger).\nTrusting your system to only one antivirus or trojan/spyware detector is just suicidal. No ONE program will detect everything.\nPS - Norton is the best....at slowing your system down, hogging system resources...screwing up if you try to uninstall it...taking forever to do full system scans...yup...Norton is the best at SUCKING LARGE.
829505
well. It seems that you have to buy a new RAM. When all programs close due to a certain program means 100 % a RAM issue. Why not buy a 512 MB RAM and see the wonder of Norton Protection Center 2007 fully?\n\nBYE
409270
well, it depends on wat kind of anti virus u installed:\nif norton anti virus, i'm not surprised. the same thing happened to me, so i ended up downloading AVG anti virus  (u can get it free from www.download.com or www.nick.phixxtech.com(\nalso, download tune up utilities from www.download.com ro www.nick.phixxtech.com. it can speed up ur computer by deleting unnused and unnecessary files.\ngood luck!
363305
I disagree with the last answer - there is nothing wrong with Norton INternet Security 2004, in fact I wish had reformatted my pc and reinstalled my copy. You will get updates (virus definitions etc) for a year when you install it, although you will not get additional features released for the 2006 version. Nortons 2006 is a pain and often requires regsitry changes in order to get it to stop doing what it wants when you have asked it not to. \n\nian
951506
NOD32 is a great program ... it is BETTER then norton in that it updates more often, and takes FAR less ram.  Not to mention theres a nifty lil patch that will make the 30 day trial last for something like 16 million days... which comes out to just over 45,000 years....
1043972
First of all, you will start to notice that your computer is running slower and messing up.\n\nI would advise you to run a virus protection system.  They can help clean out your computer and rid you of viruses.\n\n\nHope this helps!
716953
I running a Pentium 3 with 256 MB of ram.\nI'm a big Nortons fan. I recently switched from 2003 to 2006. The program is too big like they said. So I went back to the 2003. It runs smooth as silk. I've had it since it came out. The only reason I switched was my dad bought 2006 and I used his disk. I bet one of your friends has the 2003. It wont cost you a dime to load it. It takes about an hour to update it the first time. There's three years worth of updates. After that no worries. I believe it's called Nortons Personal Firewall 2003. I love my Nortons 2003. Let me just add that I get zero pop ups, none at all. Nortons kills them all. \n.
829732
it depends on what you mean by internet security.. antivirus,firewall,antispy\n\ni know that norton slows my computer(2ghz) by 30% so i removed it
122330
Yes, Just Try To Use "Norton Anti-Virus"\nAnd Make Update For It Every Week To Keep\nYour Computer Save.
229610
If you're takin about Fast, Its McAfee ver. 7-8, Its Pretty Good! but The New Norton 2006, is fast(lil slow than McAfee) but it Much secure than McAfee!!!
185589
The Best One by far is Mcaffee hands down. Norton places a heavy "footprint" on your computer everything slows down once it's installed. If you want a headache get Norton. As for Mcaffee? Don't go out and buy it from the store because it also puts too many files on your puter. Go online to their website and download the "Web Version" It's pretty cheap I think 14 bucks a year and best of all it will check for updates on it's own everytime you access the internet. It's quiet, runs in the background and is always up to date. I've tried bunches of AV, and I think this is the best!
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norton and mcaffee are both useless in my opinion. my system is pretty good but those programs use way too much memory. i've had less problems with a virus than with those stupid anti virus crap. i now use a free virus scanner ( http://www.grisoft.com ) which doesn't slow down, is easy to use and does the job better than mcaffee.
35271
Yup.\nJust as long as you keep your norton up to date you will be fine.
74841
It's possible your pc may be infected with a virus. Trojan virus's tend to crash your computer, change your homepage at random, shut down your pc while you're in the middle of something, and they slow your system down tremendously. I would try scanning for viruses to see if that is the problem. \nI didn't realize that my norton antivirus had expired, so for almost a month, I didn't get any norton updates, and unfortunately ended up with 26 trojan viruses and 3 worms. I did a full system recovery, and installed a free virus protection called AVG. It works very well, and I'M BACK!!! It was a horrible nightmare!
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It is the motherboard manufacturer's program running, not a virus. It does slow down your CPU fan to about 700 - 800 rpm.\nI had a look on the motherboard installation disk. Apparently the SlowDownCpu.exe is meant to fix some bugs with various motherboards. Uncheck it in start up and you should be fine.
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My brother installed it on his computer and after that everything ran incredibly slowly, so slow you'd almost think the computer had frozen.\n\nI managed to get round it in a long winded way so that now it's just the start-up which is slow.\n\nAfter this experience I'd be tempted to use Norton, eTrust, Panda or some other anti-virus program.