gramadinah
True Blue Farmgirl
3557 Posts
Diana
Orofino
ID
USA
3557 Posts
Posted - Nov 01 2009 : 8:31:16 PM
Can anybody tell me if Macafee and Norton fight and make your computers run relly slow I have both and today all 3 computers are so slow I am about to throw them all out the window.
I used Norton for about five years and finally un-installed it, even though it was paid for almost a full year. My computer ran like a slug and twice I had viruses that just disabled Norton and installed themselves. Di
Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts
Posted - Nov 01 2009 : 11:14:11 PM
Yes!! You should only have one antivirus program running at once. When one scans the files, the other thinks it is a virus searching your drive and tries to shut it down, then the first one thinks it is being attacked by a virus and tries to shut the other one down. All the while both of them are sucking up the available RAM so you computer slows to a crawl if it doesn't lock down completely.
I had Norton installed when I bough my puter and deleted it straight away. I just don't like it one bit! I now have the free AGV and it works like a charm. And yes Alee is so right, they do "fight"
Hugs from Marian/Dutchy, a farmgirl from the Netherlands :)