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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 483341" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Buddy, I think the regular version of Norton that you buy and download on your computer yourself is OK. It's the temporary short-term version of Norton that most computers have pre-loaded when you buy them that can cause trouble. The HP techs told me that this pre-loaded version of Norton can cause all kinds of problems and gets messed up very easily. I had my brand new $600 laptop for exactly FOUR DAYS before the Norton was preventing me from even getting online! The best thing to do is get it out of there ASAP and replace it with a decent antivirus software. You can't just delete it either. You have to download a "Norton Removal Tool" to get it out ... almost like an exorcism! If you don't, little bits and pieces of it will remain and cause you lots of problems.</p><p></p><p>And from what I've heard, McAfee kind of bites the big one too! I don't know how it performs as an antivirus but I've heard that it takes up a lot of room and when it is scanning, it slows your computer down so badly that you almost can't use it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 483341, member: 1883"] Buddy, I think the regular version of Norton that you buy and download on your computer yourself is OK. It's the temporary short-term version of Norton that most computers have pre-loaded when you buy them that can cause trouble. The HP techs told me that this pre-loaded version of Norton can cause all kinds of problems and gets messed up very easily. I had my brand new $600 laptop for exactly FOUR DAYS before the Norton was preventing me from even getting online! The best thing to do is get it out of there ASAP and replace it with a decent antivirus software. You can't just delete it either. You have to download a "Norton Removal Tool" to get it out ... almost like an exorcism! If you don't, little bits and pieces of it will remain and cause you lots of problems. And from what I've heard, McAfee kind of bites the big one too! I don't know how it performs as an antivirus but I've heard that it takes up a lot of room and when it is scanning, it slows your computer down so badly that you almost can't use it. [/QUOTE]
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