Re: Antivirus software is the new protection racket

From: Buffalo (eric(nospam)_at_nada.com.invalid)
Date: 05/14/05

  • Next message: Phil Weldon: "Re: Antivirus software is the new protection racket" 
    Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 13:38:04 -0600

    "Sammy" <hhi_info@yahoo.com> wrote in message
    news:1116084266.386461.219580@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
    > Using a completely clean fresh OEM installation of Windows XP
    > Professional Sp2; then loading Norton Antivirus 2005 does show a
    > significant performance hit. This test was done using a p4 3.2
    > (northwood chip; not prescott) on an Intel 865GBF mainboard with
    > 1gigabyte of dual channel DDR kingston valueram. Sitting on a 160gig
    > Western Digital SATA hard drive; 8megs cache, yadda yadda.
    >
    > The time it takes to open the norton control interface from double
    > clicking its icon beside the clock is noticable. Other applications do
    > not appear to take nearly as long to bring up their GUI. The computer
    > startup time used to be roughly 25 seconds until I could login, since
    > installing Norton Antivirus 2005; That's almost 40 seconds now. (Norton
    > takes awhile to finish loading it's drivers apparently)
    >
    > I don't run a dirty system, this was a clean load 2 days ago.

    Sammy,
    Taking longer to boot up and longer to open the Norton interface (usually only
    the first time) in no way indicates a general system slowdown.
    C'mon now.
    ie: does it noticeabley slow down your other programs and games?
    If so, you sure failed to note it.
    If the test you did only includes the above, it is invalid.

  • Next message: Phil Weldon: "Re: Antivirus software is the new protection racket"