[Norton Good or Bad]

The wrong firewall can and will slow a pc down.  Just look at ZoneAlarm.  I noticed a huge speed difference back when I was a dialup user using ZoneAlarm Pro and then switching to Outpost Professional.

 

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I never found any problem with ZoneAlarm Pro slowing down my computer. However, I have never tried Outpost Professional.

 

One should not have more than one firewall or antivirus running at the same time. This is why ZoneAlarm Pro detects antivirus and firewall overlaps to avoid problems with this.

[Norton Good or Bad]

  There's no way Norton beat NOD32

 

I've had some bad expiriences with Norton 2005. The uninstaller is horrible. It damaged IE and many other programs. I tried installing Avast an AVG but neither would run becuase of what Norton left behind. At one point my pc wouldn't boot. Ended up reformating ...

 

If I can find my thread in another forum about all the problems I had I will post it.

 

Oh, and mabey you should check out Syagte as a firewall.

 

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That test was moronic... It compares the minor and petty details. It doesn't tell you how well the antivirus scanned, how fast, and how efficiently. It's just "is there password protection" and crap like that. It just sees if it has that capability but does not compare its efficiency. The review is total bullsh*t.

[Norton Good or Bad]

I think it's a very wise choice i recommended it but i have to warn you that some people, i don't know why though, think it has a confusing interface... I've also heard that their online support isn't all that good. However, I still use it just fine and i have never had any problem with it. ZoneAlarm does not detect NOD32 as an antivirus system... I don't know why though.

 

NOD32 is fast, updates rapidly and frequently, takes up VERY LITTLE RAM. I fully recommend you use it.

[Deletes a lot less than it scans]

Everytime I analyze, CCleaner deletes less than it analyzes. Although I know that the analyzation is just an approximation, sometimes the scan detects a lot more than it deletes. I just scanned my computer and it said that i could get rid of an approximate 19.1 MB. However, CCleaner only deleted 9 MB. Does this happen to anyone else?

[Norton Good or Bad]

i used norton antivirus 2004 for around 2 months... (can't even believe i kept it that long) Norton is the worst antivirus i've ever used. It is slow, RAM hogger, always has to scan every single program you are using and it gets annoying and slows your computer. AVG Antivirus is very good. If you are not a computer geek i recommend you use it. I personally use NOD32 Antivirus. It is amazing. It constantly scans your computer without slowing it down a bit. It has extremely fast scanning. It scanned my 30 gb of data in 7 minutes. It found viruses that AVG and norton could not find. NOD32 also updates very often. Unlike Norton that updates around once ever week and a half, NOD32 updates daily and sometimes even 3 times a day.