NAV 2004 = teh suck

[Davegod]

I used to have NAV 2001, and I was liking it. It sat in the tray, never noticed except when sending mail, even left it on when gaming with no noticable degredation.

so wtf is up with NAV 2004? It's a total HOG. Even just moving a large .zip file takes FAR longer, sometimes with NAV popup saying "explorer.exe is waiting for a virus scan" or whatever. When installing programs and large files are mentioned in the progress indicator, it suddenly just stops for 10 seconds and here comes the popup from NAV...

Gaming, oh dear, in ET I load a map and 10 seconds later its /quit or alt+enter to disable NAV - instantly noticable.

OK so not really too bad, I can put up with all that, even if it is annoying and making system feel sluggish. So whats really annoying? Even with NAV disabled, ET performance seems a lot worse. I havent gone to the extent of uninstalling to find out for sure though.

Worse (real point of posting), sometimes farking NAV enables itself! I've right-clicked on the icon in the taskbar and selected "disable auto protect", waited for the red X and then run ET. 10 seconds later, "wth?". Quit game and i see the farking thing is no longer disabled.

Any ideas? Other than a different AV, its actually been pretty spiffy at spotting viruses.

 

[Rudee]

It's the best antivirus software out there in my opinion, however I have to agree with you that it finished dead last in terms of performance. It's a resource pig.

 

[manko]

My machine is a few years old and I still use NAV2002. 2003 was unbearably slow, so I haven't even considered trying 2004.

 

[PoPPeR]

i'm considering NAV 2004 again. I just found a virus on my sisters computer (the NIMDA readme.exe thing), that somehow slipped by AVG. My sister doesn't even know how to close programs so I doubt she somehow disabled the scanner and then got the virus.

AVG is great, but I can't risk letting someone get access to my sisters computer, and then my network, seeing as I have a lot of sensitive information.

 

[Ludacris]

Norton 2004 does scan everything whenever you install or move a file, but I like that type of security. Yea it makes installing a program a pain in the ass unless you disable autoprotect, but it defanitely keeps you safe from trojans and crap.

I think its the best AV protection you can get right now. I never had the issue of Autoprotect turning itself back on either. I only disable it while I'm installing apps though.

 

[EeyoreX]

NAV2004 doesn't slow down my system. In gaming or file transfers or the like. You can't have it both ways. Either learn to live with NAV's scanning, or get another viurs scanner. However, I do agree that if it keeps enabling itself that is pretty irritating for software to do that.

\Dan

 

[NightCrawler]

I like Kav 5.0 desktop

 

[Davegod]

Originally posted by: EeyoreX
NAV2004 doesn't slow down my system. In gaming or file transfers or the like. You can't have it both ways. Either learn to live with NAV's scanning, or get another viurs scanner. However, I do agree that if it keeps enabling itself that is pretty irritating for software to do that.

\Dan

Worse (real point of posting), sometimes farking NAV enables itself!

Basically what I'm looking for is if anyone knows a workaround for it re-enabling itself, and the apparent reduced performance even when it does stay disabled. Rest is rant & warning for anyone else considering buying.

I might try a little basic benching with uninstalling, turning off script blocking etc (even when set to disabled everything stays loaded in Task Manager, so not sure it's disabling everything completely), but the effect seems to be worse for actual online gaming than running timedemos (at a guess because timedemo is running a file whereas online its a constant stream of data packets).

 

[LouPoir]

I agree - I had Nav2003 with no problems. Nav2004 is a total HOG. I went over to McCafee.

Lou