Like a religious miracle! (within the context of a home PC)

[Conan The Librarian]

I replaced Norton anti-virus with Windows Security Essentials, a simple process that's just a bit time consuming, maybe 40 minutes. The PC I have hated for five years for running the fan all the time and slowing down to do virus scans all the time is now a genuine pleasure to use!

The fan is quiet all the time. The computer doesn't slow down. It's fabulous! Essentials is free from Microsoft.

I feel like finding the team that developed it and give them each a big hug!

I had a post here somewhere about this asking about it. If you helped me, thanks!!! I appreciate it.

It really galls me that McCaffee and Norton both somehow think it's OK to design a piece of software that exerts tremendous wear and tear on a PC, hijacks it so that it is practically unusable at times, and generally has a host of annoying features and interruptions. Absolutely the opposite of what software should be.

Both of those packages are a thing of the past now, thankfully.

[yellowtail3]

I've been using that Microsoft freebie for a couple years now, and it works just fine.

[Tommyt]

The guy at Comp USA told me if I had a HP computer not to use norton that it would slow it down
Tremendously
I see you found it out
Glad you did
too bad it was so long in the making


Tommyt

[BBF]

I'm not that brave to trust Microsoft by itself to keep my 'puter healthy.
I used to run three programs until two of them were incompatible to some extend with the one I have a lifetime service agreemen( dunno if that means my life or the PC)
 
So far STOPzilla has done a good job.