Re: norton antivirus slowing down system BIG TIME! help!

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From: R. McCarty (PCEngWork-NoSpam__at_mindspring.com)
Date: 04/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:50:58 GMT

Nav 2004 runs in a 25-35 Megabyte memory footprint. As other's
have pointed out, it does create a drag on system performance. All
Anti-Virus real-time scanners will slow down the PC. One thing you
can do is disable the logging features. Open Nav, Click Reports
Activity Log, Right click on each sub-log - Clear and then Disable
each category (If you don't care to log or monitor activity).
 The six to eight services that Symantec runs (Nav & Nis) do take
up a good bit of resources. There are a number of "Leaner" and
sometimes free anti-virus programs available. Symantec is still a
good choice for the average XP user, but NAV is getting to be a
"Problem" application.

"Mad Scientist Jr" <usenet_daughter@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:7a93f3c4.0404220639.e58b802@posting.google.com...
> Norton Antivirus 2004 seems to be checking every file on my system,
> all the time! And it's damn slow! I had 2002 previously, and just kept
> getting updates. It didn't check files all the time though, only when
> I was opening stuff. This new version seems to check every file every
> time I open a window in Explorer or a page on IE. What settings can I
> change to speed up my PC, yet keep myself relatively safe from
> viruses?

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