Hello folks, i wonder if anyone can help me please with the norton antivirus I have installed on my PC currently.
To the point, in task manager it currently shows that it idles around 5-9% of CPU usage. but more annoying is it seems to use 25% off the system memory... like really!?
It's not doing anything. Not scanning just running in the background but taking up a quarter of the PC's memory.
Does anyone perhaps know of what settings I could change to lower all these values, especially the memory usage. I don't want to turn it off completely but my default settings are that most options are turned on. Does anyome know off any non essential options I could turn off to free up the system a little if possible, if anyone also happens to own norton and has some experience with this program?.
I still have a years subscription left so changing the program isn't really an option at this point, but does anyone recommend any other AV/firewall with all the bells and whistles of norton but that doesn't seem to require a quarter of the computer to run?. :/
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Nah that's not an option for me guys. It's because windows integrated av isn't up to the task that I ended up buying an av program in the first place. I've always managed to pick up a virus that would force me to reinstall windows at least once every year. Since I went with a subscription av package last Feb though I've never had any problems with viruses and trojans since and the pc actually feels a whole lot more secure ever since which in itself is enough incentive to keep me subscribed. Each to their own but a commercial av package is the best option for me.
I've always managed to pick up a virus that would force me to reinstall windows at least once every year.
Man stop clicking crazy unknown files captain-marvell.ps1 is not ur friend.
LOL its not as if I'm naively clicking random exes and blindly opening suspect files. Sometimes all it takes is to mistakenly click something accidentally or to take that risk hoping it's nothing but a false positive. Then it's all too late as soon as its done.
Anyway so is there anyone out there that knows anything about Norton who can help please?.
Sigh so no help here then lol. Dude I'm keeping the av. For the first time in years I've actually got a completely legit rig. Legit win 10, legit office, legit everything that matters in fact and for the price of a game I find it well worth the peace of mind it gives me. What would be the point of uninstall something that works anyway?. I'll just have to do it the hard way I guess and go through all the options individually to see what changes what. In all seriousness though windows av doesn't even pick up browser redirects when logging onto kat torrents. What's 30 quid for a year's sub anyway?. You all really that cheap fellas, it's nothing for the security and needn't having to worry about viruses and trojans, phishing scams etc anymore. What works for some doesn't always work for everyone. If my windows wasn't legit I wouldn't even bother running a commercial av program.
i have not used an av in 20 years and i downloaded cracks and watch all kind of naughty stuff on naughty sites ... even russian sites
like seriously, whats the point?, when is the last time your av actually stopped something google chrome and adblocker isnt already stopping ? or do u have so many emails u think u might actually open a scam one ?
my windows wasnt even updated
its like fucking bloatware for the last decade , a whole busines fueled by people who dont know what ad blocker is and who keep opening retarded emails
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infected with what ? i havent seen anything in my whole family their computers this last decade
on topic, there seem to be a lot of threads about memory usage, norton always has been the biggest recource hog. some people suggest uninstalling and reinstalling it.
did anyone ever had defender or firewall ever pop up to warn you about anything? except the 'are u sure u let it make changes to the OS stuff, or this driver isnt signed blabla ?
Windows FW asks you to allow network connections on first run and connection attempt of installed applications/games.
Instead of turning realtime defender off, I think its better to define exceptions for certain folders which you use to install crakled games.
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
It blocks incoming connections though. You can block outgoing connections manually.
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
Norton basically renders your machine x486 in terms of performance. That and it only blocks known bad file signatures therefore you have to be clicking infect_derp.exe to get infected. If your really that concerned i would periodically run malwarebytes free or hitman although you might have to crack the latter against your filesystem. Personally find the extra features of commercial AV products useless.. i.e windows has UAC, has a firewall that's more intuitive and documented to use.
I still use ESET, it's lightweight and can run in trial forever (just get a new trial key from the web). I dislike Windows Defender because it makes the PC pretty slow during copying.
I still use ESET, it's lightweight and can run in trial forever (just get a new trial key from the web). I dislike Windows Defender because it makes the PC pretty slow during copying.
The AV is free. All you need to do is create an account and login with it in the application. No you don't need to provide your name or whatever, just use a fake email from 10minutemail or similar, login once and never think about it again.
Bitdefender is usually at the top of the detection rate lists in various tests (although to be honest, I don't know if the tests at https://www.av-test.org/ or similar sites can be trusted, I leave that knowledge to whoever here is more knowledgeable). I also find it to be fairly unintrusive and low-performance.
I haven't used it in like a year now but I remember liking it back then as far as free AVs go.
Nah it's not that i'm not using it yondaime, its running in the background too. It's really not doing muich at all though tbh. I rarely get any notifications from it but thats maybe because norton is picking it up and alerting me before win AV does. Ta i'll look into bitdefender too. I still have like 350 days left on this sub though as I think it auto renewed it's sub recently but I think i'm gonna change the AV when it expires.
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