My laptop takes bout 3-5 min to start up...issit cuz of de antivirus??.....pls advise...or should i change to another antivirus??...thx

Cheers....

Mind to share what norton program u are using, Norton anti-virus, Internet security or 360?

My Norton 360 doesn't effect my start up time at all..

how big is your ram actually?

Moved from Windows Vista

Well, from my previous experience, yes.. norton is such a RAM eater..
But that was 5-7 years ago when i last used them

I'm not sure about their product rite now..
I dont even use one..

Try turning off Automatic Live Update and "Run Quick Scan whenever updates have been received".

I'm using Norton Internet Security 2007 and ran into performance problems.CPU & Ram is constantly used up.After turning it off,i see dramatic decrease in cpu usage.

everyone knew that norton are very sucks AV, so just change to the other lorr...

serious ? no wonder my laptop now load so slow ...

Norton is good...but bad thing is that sux up a lot of RAM..so do change to others...there a alot of good one out there...

no wonder my laptop hang easily now when i try open excel file n msn...

I work as a vendor for one factory, they just upgraded to NOD32 from norton a few months ago.

Reason? Norton itself can't even protect the server from virus invasion. And while remove the norton from client PC, many of them cannot be uninstalled. Have to use the removal tools to remove the program.

Don't use norton, it really sux. Till now, it still sux.

Norton is really RAM eater. Never tried it but I don't think its good. Even McAfee which eat quite amount of ram as well performs better than it..

say no to norton,
the reason so many ppl using it is actually it was preloaded into the pcs and laptops......

how about bitdefender n kaspersky?

Norton360 seems to be working OK on my rig.

Not sure about Bit Defender. For KasperSky, my friend used it and overall it's good. Just that he said that the Firewall is a little complicated compared with McAfee..

i've avoided Norton since more than 5 years ago. those days you know la. around Celeron 400 - Duron 800 with 64mb RAM to 256mb RAM range and Windows 98/early XP.

i'm satisfied with AVG and therefore not switching camp.

wow... their so change it earlier

bitdefender sucks!! don't use it. They are being sold for RM49 or something right now to get people to buy them but they are ineffective in getting rid of malwares.

My friend's PC using bitdefender but got all sorts of virus problem. Then switched to avg, better but keep on prompting got virus and all but then switched to avira anti-vir. No more problems. Best of all avira is free.

But if you want good and stable antivirus, try nod32. It's quite effective (not 100%) but light on memory. Problem is, not so easy to learn how to use.