I have norton 2006 anti virus and since downloading it takes five minutes to get on line any solutions?

Question

Norton have not helped, just give lists of checks which do not help.
I am not at all technical but it seems that the 2006 norton carries out a scan before it will let me go on line. I have no viruses or other difficulties with my computer. can anyone help? Thanks Doug

Answer 1

Without knowing PC specs, it sounds like its underpowered.
Sounds like max 256mb DDR, 1.2ghz Celeron Processer?

If thats the case you should not be running the Norton Software package.

I agree, AVG is brilliant for viruses, Zone Alarm for Firewall and Spy-Bot Search and destroy for Spy-ware etc. All available for free.

On home machines, Norton not really required unless decent spec machine.

Answer 2

I have Norton 2006 anti-virus and I've not had any problems with it. I have mine set to run a scan everyday at a certain time. To do that go into your control panel then into performance and maintenance, then scheduled tasks. You can either add a task or if Norton scan is already showing on the list, double click and then click on the schedule tab to change it. Everyone has their own ideas of what works best for their computer. Mine came with McCaffe and I hated it. It kept disabling so I tried the Av? (I forget what it's called) that a lot of people have talked about and it messed up my computer so I'm sticking with Norton.

Answer 3

Hi Doug, Ive just taken Nortons 2006 off my computer what a waste of £39 it slowed my I.E. to a crawling pace and it did not stop viruses it told you that one has just downloaded onto my computer and it was going to get rid of it. Whats the point in that.So now Ive installed it and got the free AVG and it works very well, also Ive downloaded the free zone alarm.Tony

Answer 4

If you have downloaded the free trial - go to control panel and uninstall it. Then install f-secure instead. You can download theirs for a 3 week trial and they do a free online scan. I used Norton for 3 weeks as it came as a trial with this computer. It quarantined 5 viruses. F-secure found them and deleted them. if money is a problem use the free AVG anti - virus and if that doesn't keep you virus free. Use the Norton online scanner and then if you're really in trouble download the free trial.

Answer 5

Since you just installed it, it will require a full scan to check your whole machine. I would let it do the scan overnight then try again and see if you have the same problem.
It may also scan after it downloads an update.
Like the first answer said, Norton can use up alot of memory/cpu time.

Answer 6

I hate norton now because i was told to download it but it made my computer slow too! Use Mcafee 2006. It improves your computers speed and is the best! I think you should uninstall norton.

Answer 7

Doug do yourself a favour and uninstall it, Norton's is a system resource hogger and reports back to base constantly which in my mind makes it a security risk of its own. Invest in a quality program such as Avast and see the results immediately

Answer 8

Yeah i agree with the others use AVG or AVAST they are both free and really good I always used to use Norton but it's very slow.

Try using it if you don't like you can always re load norton

Hope it goes ok]

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Answer 9

Nope Norton constantly video show gadgets each and every thing your pc does which motives a ton of overhead. in my view I even have AVG loose and it works great. purely suggestion attempt turning off a number of its functionallity.

Answer 10

You have a lot of good answers so read them all but i would download avast,com and uninstall norton if it was a free download ..