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Title: A remedy worse than the disease?
Review: Various professional reviews give Norton high marks for worm and spyware detection and the like, and I have no reason to dispute them. But I suspect Norton is as bad as what it guards against in terms of its effect on computer performance. A quick startup to check on weather, say, or check on e-mail, no longer is possible: the hard drive buzzes, time goes by, the hard drive buzzes some more. Microsoft's Task Manager makes it clear that Norton is the culprit. And whenever Norton decides, as it often does, to update, or check for updates, Internet performance drops well into the SERIOUS frustration zone. Can Norton be temporarily disabled? Elements of the program can be turned off, but then Norton finds other things to do, and the frustration in unabated. My sincere, heartfelt recommendation: find better security software.
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