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monkeymonkey · 05-10-2008, 10:50 AM

Norton is notorious for hogging system resources

- I would seriously recommend to ditch it entirely and go for the likes of ESET / NOD32 or Kaspersky -which lack some of big red and green buttons but are more effective and VERY light on resources.

05-10-2008, 10:50 AM	#3 (permalink)
monkeymonkey Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Location: here Posts: 57 OS: xp / ubuntu	Re: Norton 360 - Cant stop it doing automatic "background" scan Norton is notorious for hogging system resources - I would seriously recommend to ditch it entirely and go for the likes of ESET / NOD32 or Kaspersky -which lack some of big red and green buttons but are more effective and VERY light on resources.