Norton: Does it Slow down your Computer??

I recently got Norton and I really like it. I think its really useful. Some of my friends told me that it slows down your computer. I know that it slows down my web browser by 0.84 secs but I don't know if it slows my computer down. I use a laptop and play all my games on it so it would be useful to use all its speed. Its a good laptop:D

Thanks

If you have the toolbar up in your web browser then it might slow some, but other than that I never noticed any slowness in my computer.

If you have the toolbar up in your web browser then it might slow some, but other than that I never noticed any slowness in my computer.

CHOASXIII

Yea the toolbar slows it down web loading by less than a second but I don't think it affects your computer

Use Microsoft Security Essentials.Alex3796

I heard about it once, but is it any good????

Do you guys know how I can check how much speed Norton is sucking out if it does??

Norton is a cpu hog so yes. But this isn't the right forum for this question dude.

Norton is a cpu hog so yes. But this isn't the right forum for this question dude.

I don't use any anti virus. I'm not stupid enough to get my computer infected by clicking on every link, visiting websites with that type of mal/adware, accepting a fake anti virus etc.

IMO, all the anti virus does(besides protect those who like to infect their PCs) is take up resources. Whether or not they slow down your pc i guess depends on how well built your pc is

If you have the power, norton really doesn't slow down your pc much, i didn't notice much difference between avg and norton.

My laptop has 2.40 GHz but it can TurboBoost upto 2.93 GHz. Would Norton really affect it that much?

Commonsense.exe uses no resources and if used correctly is 100% effective 100% of the time. All ive had since the invention of the internet and i have been infected a grand total of zero times by anything.

If you use websafe there is a slight pause. I use the netbook version and it has websafe and you scan whatever startup programs you want that are questionable but if norton says they are safe there is no need to scan them at startup.

It shouldn't, at least not any moreso than other A/V products. Norton has a bad reputation because of some of their older products, but they've really cleaned up their act over the past couple of years.

I recently got Norton and I really like it. I think its really useful. Some of my friends told me that it slows down your computer. I know that it slows down my web browser by 0.84 secs but I don't know if it slows my computer down. I use a laptop and play all my games on it so it would be useful to use all its speed. Its a good laptop:D

Thanks

darkassassin911

I have a pretty kickass gaming laptop so nope. :P

[QUOTE="Alex3796"]Use Microsoft Security Essentials.darkassassin911

I heard about it once, but is it any good????

Yeah! And its free.

[QUOTE="Alex3796"]Use Microsoft Security Essentials.darkassassin911

I heard about it once, but is it any good????

Yeah! And its free.

I've heard a lot of bad stuff about Norton but I've also heard that they're not much of a system hog any longer.

And also, even you're careful, you can still get infected, you don't need to visit any super shady sites to get infected. You can infected by just visiting normal sites, wowhead and wowwiki are two regular sites for example. I wouldn't be surprised if Gamespot has had some issues before too. http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=25519272 For example.

I've heard a lot of bad stuff about Norton but I've also heard that they're not much of a system hog any longer.

And also, even if you don't use an anti virus guys you can still get infected, you don't need to visit any super shady sites to get infected. You can infected by just visiting normal sites, wowhead and wowwiki are two regular sites for example. I wouldn't be surprised if Gamespot has had some issues before too. http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=25519272 For example.

I've heard a lot of bad stuff about Norton but I've also heard that they're not much of a system hog any longer.

And also, even if you don't use an anti virus guys you can still get infected, you don't need to visit any super shady sites to get infected. You can infected by just visiting normal sites, wowhead and wowwiki are two regular sites for example. I wouldn't be surprised if Gamespot has had some issues before too. http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=25519272 For example.

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