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Norton Anti-Virus System Software Slowing Down My Computer

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JonathanF

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I am running an EPOX 8K7A+ Motherboard with an AMD Athlon 1400 CPU and 512 Megabytes of Kingston DDR 2700 Ram.

My Computer System was always running fast and stable

I recently installed the Norton Anti-Virus 2002 System Software with the Auto Protect On, and it is scanning the incoming and outgoing E-Mail Messages and the File Attachments.

I have been running Windows XP over the past year, and today I just upgraded with the new Windows XP Service Pack 1 System Software.

Since I installed the Norton Anti-Virus 2002 System Software, my Computer has slowed down around 30 Percent.

In the past five years each time that I installed the Norton Anti-Virus System or the McAfee Anti-Virus SYstem Software, it allways slowed down my Computer System.

I would then uninstall the Anti-Virus System Software, and the Computer System would be back to its normal speed again.

The same Computer System slowdown always occured whenever I installed either the Norton or the McAfee Anti-Virus System Software.

Does anyone have any ideas where I can use some kind of Anti-Virus System Software to protect my Computer, and still have the Computer maintain its normal speed.

I tried only scanning Incoming and not the Outgoing E-Mail Messages and File Attachmentsand it did not really help.

I am using Verizon DSL with a LinkSys 4 Port Router.

Thank You.

Jonathan

 
Try AVG. If that doesnt help, run without anti-virus and firewall to get all the fragging speed you want and see how much viruses and initiating DDoSes slows you down 🙂

Or, since faster machines are available for a small amount of money, upgrade.
 
The only thing Norton slows down on my system is sending a receiving e-mail. Everything else runs fine.
 
It's been years since I worked with anything but Norton AV Corporate Edition, but I believe all Norton AV products have an option to scan on

1) Modified (scan on create)
2 Accessed or Modified (scan on create, move, copy, open, run)

Obviously, there is significantly less overhead associated with the first option, and it still affords you a decent degree of protection.

 
Jonathan,

This is strange, NAV 2002 is *signifigantly* smaller and faster than previous versions. There is no way is should be slowing your system down by almost a third, the majority of users don't even realize AP is on (I never ran with AP on until 2002).

How did you benchmark this? Are you sure somethign else isn't going on? Let's dig into this a bit and see if we can't figure out whats up.

Bill
 
Norton 2002 definitely slowed down my laptop too. I hear a good freeware antivirus program is !avast? Can't exactly remember the name, but I know it started with an !. Supposedly it detected 100% of all the virus' in a review I read. I have Norton 2003 at work and I will install it on my laptop tomorrow. I'll let you guys know my results tomorrow. If there is no speed increase I am going ro install !Avast.

 
You don't need to have the Auto Protect on. My XP system didn't slow down with SP1. Do you have any of the other features on?
 
Originally posted by: alrocky
You don't need to have the Auto Protect on. My XP system didn't slow down with SP1. Do you have any of the other features on?
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You should always be running with AP on, the hit should be small enough that you don't even notice. And the protection given is worth the tradeoff. I'm still waiting for the original poster to comment, as he's claiming a 30% slowdown which I have trouble believing.

Bill

 
FWIW I personally have tried all the different flavors of NAV among other AV proggies out there and have found Norton's to be the biggest memory hogs of all AV software out there. I like the Ontrack system utilities, I am now running System Suite 4 which uses the Trend-Micro AV engine and Sygate Firewall engine, it runs in the backgound all the time and is almost unnoticeable on my systems (XP SP! included) and it has also found viri that Norton didn't see.
 
Originally posted by: robisc
FWIW I personally have tried all the different flavors of NAV among other AV proggies out there and have found Norton's to be the biggest memory hogs of all AV software out there. I like the Ontrack system utilities, I am now running System Suite 4 which uses the Trend-Micro AV engine and Sygate Firewall engine, it runs in the backgound all the time and is almost unnoticeable on my systems (XP SP! included) and it has also found viri that Norton didn't see.
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Which viri did you see that Norton didn't.
Bill
 
Originally posted by: robisc
Which viri did you see that Norton didn't.
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Boy that has been so long ago that I couldnt tell you, sorry.
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I only asked because someone else previously mentioned that here at AnandTech and when I dug into it, it turned out that Trend was fp'ing on files that weren't infectious. Obviously, I can't say that is what happened here. Anyhow, if you see something like that again, drop me a note.

Cheers,
Bill
 
Originally posted by: JonathanF
I am running an EPOX 8K7A+ Motherboard with an AMD Athlon 1400 CPU and 512 Megabytes of Kingston DDR 2700 Ram.

My Computer System was always running fast and stable

I recently installed the Norton Anti-Virus 2002 System Software with the Auto Protect On, and it is scanning the incoming and outgoing E-Mail Messages and the File Attachments.

I have been running Windows XP over the past year, and today I just upgraded with the new Windows XP Service Pack 1 System Software.

Since I installed the Norton Anti-Virus 2002 System Software, my Computer has slowed down around 30 Percent.
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Now you've learned one of the dirty secrets of the AV industry, or at least that most AV software is bloatware, and is generally unnecessary, if you follow most "sane" computing practices.

I don't run AV software, and haven't for years, after having to un-install, manually (!) Norton AV for Win95, after upgrading to OSR2, and having Norton "break" Windows, because of the extreme low level that it digs into Windows. I no longer run any sort of consumer crapware on my system. The only things I run actively in the background are WebWasher and ZoneAlarm.
 
Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Originally posted by: JonathanF
I am running an EPOX 8K7A+ Motherboard with an AMD Athlon 1400 CPU and 512 Megabytes of Kingston DDR 2700 Ram.

My Computer System was always running fast and stable

I recently installed the Norton Anti-Virus 2002 System Software with the Auto Protect On, and it is scanning the incoming and outgoing E-Mail Messages and the File Attachments.

I have been running Windows XP over the past year, and today I just upgraded with the new Windows XP Service Pack 1 System Software.

Since I installed the Norton Anti-Virus 2002 System Software, my Computer has slowed down around 30 Percent.
Click to expand...

Now you've learned one of the dirty secrets of the AV industry, or at least that most AV software is bloatware, and is generally unnecessary, if you follow most "sane" computing practices.

I don't run AV software, and haven't for years, after having to un-install, manually (!) Norton AV for Win95, after upgrading to OSR2, and having Norton "break" Windows, because of the extreme low level that it digs into Windows. I no longer run any sort of consumer crapware on my system. The only things I run actively in the background are WebWasher and ZoneAlarm.
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bwahahahahahahaha! Stay virtual, the real world would scare you!
 
I don't run AV software, and haven't for years, after having to un-install, manually (!) Norton AV for Win95, after upgrading to OSR2, and having Norton "break" Windows, because of the extreme low level that it digs into Windows. I no longer run any sort of consumer crapware on my system. The only things I run actively in the background are WebWasher and ZoneAlarm.
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While I may have even agreed with you for the consumer space some years ago, too many current threats aren't based on the user being 'dumb' but rather automatically exploit vulnerabilities without user interaction. This trend will only continue. Also, the current NAV products are night and day different from what you ran back on 95 (for whatver thats worth)

Bill


 
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