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Hello,
For some reason, my anti-virus has been running super slow lately. It takes over 9 hours to scan my 250GB harddrive. It takes about 1 second to scan each file. Nothing's running along side it. Why would this be happening?
It's Norton Antivirus 2005.
Question: Why would this be happening?
Answer: It's Norton Antivirus 2005.
NAV is a resource hog. Unload it and opt for AVG or Avast instead (both free).
i_Xp/VistaUser
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Hi, First of all I will join with the majority that NAV is a resource hog. I just dumped it and switched to ESET NOD32. Your 2005 version is quite out of date, if anything you should be at 2007 or 08. I was having scan times of over 4 hours on a 60gb hdd with NAV 2007. Now my scans are well under 1 hour. Just my opinion. Bluejay
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NAV may be a resource hog, but it should not take over 9 hours to scan a 250GB harddrive. I'm not a big fan of Norton products, but I do use Norton Inetrnet Security and Norton 360, and neither takes nearly as long to scan my HD. Besides, it doesn't scan all 250 GB, but just what you have on the HD. How much of your HD is used ? You could also try a quick scan instead of a full system scan just to see how long it takes. Of course, as others mentioned, you should be using an upo to date version.
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I don't know if you could even find a comparision for NAV 2005 to current products but the current NAV didn't fair too well in recent testing against major competitors. Can't locate the link at the moment.
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If you decide to unload Norton (which I would do in a flash) for one of the better free AV's, be sure to use their removal tool or NOTHING (firewall or AV ) will work properly:
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I've got Norton Internet Security on my Xp and on my Vista computers. Scan times are between 2 & 3 hours (full system scans). In fact I've been running Norton for years now and I've never had a nasty sneak by it. Say what you want about it but I don't have issues with Norton. There's updates at least daily (and sometimes several times a day) for new viruses etc...this is 24/7. Some of the other products (Windows Update,for one) seem to be of the mind, "Updates? Yeah, we'll post 'em, Tuesday...if we feel like it...maybe...yawn." And no, I don't work for Norton.
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retsgtmkb, a question for you (yawn)...will norton automatically instantly alert you to abort your connection if you are surfing and get to a website that has viruses??? Just curious to see your answer.
Avast free will do that, so there isn't a need to do scheduled scans like you have to with Norton.
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XpUser4Real: Norton Internet Security will do what you say without scheduled scans. It also alerts you to email viruses, etc. without scheduled scans as well.
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kx5m2g, are you retsgtmkb??????
I'm sorry, I still say Norton is BLOATWARE.Some HELP in posting on Cnet plus free progs and instructions Glad to Help!
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XpUser4Real: No, I'm not retsgtmkb, and perhaps you're correct that Norton is BLOATWARE. I was just making the point that Norton Internet Security will do what you say without scheduled scans.
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Hmmm....I've never seen Norton alert you while surfing, if I was wrong I will gladly apologise, no problem. I'm talking about surfing, not scanning when getting mail.
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Sorry for not answering right away, but yes, Norton actively scans while surfing. I took a look at my Norton history for the past 60 days. It's blocked 2 trojans, 1 downloader and removed 1 worm that slipped by MailWasher on an Email.
I only do a full system scan once a month but it never finds anything (presumably) bacause Norton catches when it comes in.
I agree Norton isn't the Holy Grail of AV's (in fact I think the firewall that came with it is sub-par...but I understand they're addressing that problem).
I stand by what I said before. I have no issues with Norton. It hasn't caused slow-downs or other problems in all the years I've used it. I'm impressed by the fact they're constantly updating whenever they find a new gremlin...when they find a new virus, worm, downloader, etc., they post an update. (That leads to a lot of small updates but I don't care.)
I'm not sure what "bloatware" is. If it's size, then yes, it's pretty massive with the AV, anti-spy/adware, anti-phishing, firewall, etc. If it's overhead then I don't know...maybe, but it hasn't caused me any problems.
I'm sure other products out there are great. Even some of the internet freebies are remarkable. But, again, I like Norton. I'm used to it. I'm comfortable with it. It has protected my systems perfectly over the years. You can't persuade me to change. I don't know...why have I purchased Chrysler vehicles (almost exclusively) since the 60's? Because I can and it's my choice.
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retsgtmkb, give this a shot, download avast free, load up the program and do a bootscan on reboot.
You may be surprised on what Norton has missed.
You can always disable and uninstall avast after the scan if you are more comfortable with Norton. This could be interesting.Some HELP in posting on Cnet plus free progs and instructions Glad to Help!
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