Has anyones computer gotten slower using Norton 360 antivirus?

Answer 1

Norton in general hard on resources. If you don't have a lot of RAM, you would experience a slowdown.

Some security products are resource hogs. There are a few that don't need as many system resources to run. You can check the amount of current RAM you have (right click My Computer, Properties, General - RAM listed at the bottom).

Also remember that everything takes RAM. Not only security products but your operating system, active browser windows, running applications (such as Word, Gaming, Messenger etc) all require system resources.

You can see if your computer can handle more RAM by going to Crucial.com and running a scan.
http://www.crucial.com/index.asp

Answer 2

Norton and Mcafee products has the reputation of slowing down most computer systems, I have customers who uses them all the time and wonder why their computer takes taht long to even start up, just had a Dell XPS games machine that had Norton on it, no kidding, takes almost 5 minutes for Norton to fully load itself.
Try something else

Answer 3

Norton Antivirus is the best antivirus software I've come across. It's probably the best one on the market. Also very price worthy.

Answer 4

Because of the way it works and installs, most Norton products (and McAfee) can cause a slight slowdown in your system performance.

Answer 5

there are some who will notice a slow down on there computers with norton installed.
if you have enough memory etc.. free than it should not be a problem or very noticable.
only slow down i have ever noticed is on loading windows it takes a mon or so longer but nothing else is slowed down at all

Answer 6

Norton and Mcaffe are system hogs and way too aggressive in my opinion. Go with AVG or something of that sort.

Answer 7

Haven't had a problem with it being slow; I have 3 GB of RAM in my PC. But, it is always giving me warnings for setting up a backup and other things I have already done.

It is a piece of crap.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

yes, thats why I switched to NOD32, also there are/were some known issues with norton

dougc

Answer 10

these steps below will help clean up your computer and make it faster
In Internet explorer at top of window select tools - then delete browser history
- then another box will open - select delete all- this will not remove your book marks
-Then close explorer then open again .At first pages will be slow once
and then will load fast after it loads 1 time.Also email etc you will have to sign in 1 time with pass word etc.
This will create new cookies.

Also go to start at bottom of on task bar.
click start 1 time then select find or search depending on your operating system.
Select all files and folders - then type in defrag and click search.When icons come up double click
and new box will come up - select analyze then you will see how fragmented you are -
then choose defrag.You can put this program on your desk top by right clicking on the icon you found in search for defrag.
Right click choose create short cut.This will put a short cut on your desk top.Then you can use as needed in future.
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find search delete history
on key boad press ctlr H
no software needed
you have what you need
find search delete history
on key board press ctlr h
In Internet explorer at top of window select tools
then delete browser history - then another box will open - select delete all- this will not remove your book marks
Then close explorer then open again .At first pages will be slow once
and then will load fast after it loads 1 time.Also email etc you will have to sign in 1 time with pass word etc.
This will create new cookies.
Also go to start at bottom of on task bar.click start 1 time then select find or search depending on your operating system.
Select all files and folders - then type in defrag and click search.When icons come up double click and new box will come up
select analyze then you will see how fragmented you are - then choose defrag.You can put this program on your desk top
by right clicking on the icon you found in search for defrag.
Right click choose create short cut.This will put a short cut on your desk top.Then you can use as needed in future.
if you want book marks removed click on star at top of screen
right click the ones you don"t want choose delete
GO TO THIS SITE TO
http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm

SEARCH
type in disk clean up
go start on blue bar (task bar)
choose search or find
then choose all files and folders
type in word you are looking for
when you see these icons
double click on them until you find what you are looking for
so you dont have to do this again
go back to same icon
right click
choose create short cut on desk top
close all windows
a new icon will be on your desk top
click to open


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add and remove programs
remove programs you are not using
click start bottom left on task bar
control panel
add and remove programs
find the program(s) you want to remove
choose remove
reinsall if needed
check status as you do it
be safe
don"t remove what you don"t what it is