i want to get rid of my norton anti virus(Or any other), it make system slow. Any alternatives?

Question

I'm a constant net user but fedup with tring diff anti virus. it pmakes other applications run slow and booting slow as well. Wants to know an alternative without the stack of security.

Answer 1

Good question! I hate Norton as well...this may sound stupid, but get Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0. It is very good and is only 14 mb compared to the huge size of Norton.

P.S - It's important to have an anti-virus no matter what because anything could happen to your computer.

Answer 2

I too had Norton. It was making the PC very slow.I could not update it. So I tried to uninstaal it. But some error occurred during the uninstallation process. Now I had to reformat and reload the whole Operating System. Best thing is to have a standard antivirus and anti spyware software. During my exercise I found a nunber of virus removal tools. Pl visit the following site and select a suitable free/ paid antivirus.
http://jskproducts.co.uk/antivirus.htm
You also try to select and install a suitable anti spy ware from the following link to protect the Pc against spyware attacks.
http://www.jskproducts.co.uk/spyware.htm

Answer 3

Do not surf the web without anti-virus software. What will slow down your applications are registry issues and bugs planted by websites. Get a registry cleaner and anti-spyware. Also if you have not done a disk defrag lately, try that as well. You will find with both registry cleaner and anti-spyware that some program pathways and previous uninstalls are incomplete or broken and these tools "fix" the identified problems upon scanning.

Answer 4

thats one of the biggest complaints of norton. the files use too many resources, resulting in slow downs. its a great anti virus, if your packing a gig of ram. try not to resort to freeware antivirus, they are too limited and being a constant net user, your at greater risk of viruses. zone labs, and trend micro are always withing the top 3 antiviruses. and they dont use as much resources as norton, plus they both incorporate an anti spyware.

Answer 5

AVG paid is great, the free one has some limitations, but works well, and does not hog your system resources, also use ccleaner will make your system run faster its free, check all boxes down to advanced, and run check for problems, and delete them, free spybot and adaware is great to keep spyware from your computer wich can slow things down also, keep all updated, all should run fine. And run often.

Answer 6

The Anti-Virus is fine, but get rid of the anti-spyware and personal firewall that comes with the Symantec software.

Answer 7

Download Grisoft AVG 7.5 Anti-Virus,Anti-Malware.(free)

AVG is a collection of anti-virus protection tools that gives you full protection against viruses, worms, Trojans and malware. AVG provides you with all that you need to be completely protected: including a tool for scanning your hard drive and e-mail, as well as a real-time shield to prevent infections.
Top Features

» Provides automatic update functionality
» Its a reliable anti-virus scanning engine
» Provides free Virus Updates for life
» Options to define file name extensions
» Real time protection with resident shield, email scanning


http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/...


This is snother good one, its not free, but PC magazine gave it 5 stars.
http://www.pctools.com/anti-virus/

Answer 8

I run Norton never had any problems running slow.
what does slow thing up with Norton though is automatic updates disable that and it should be fine.
If you still want another anti-virus get avg it's good get it here http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5 it uses very little system resources

Answer 9

sure theres an alternative to an antivirus. we call them macs and they cost about $1500

Answer 10

I have that 2! I restart my computer and it works for a while!