Well, well. Here's an interesting partnership: Yahoo and Symantec. The latter is known for their Norton's Internet Security software. Read about it at Arstechnica. Yahoo is in cahoots with Claria and 180Solutions which means if you 'Yahoo' then there is a good chance your machine is being flooded with all their garbage. Norton's Interenet Security? Last week several hours were spent trying to map a dot matrix printer in a new network. After uninstalling Norton's Internet Security everything worked fine. This software came bundled with the new PCs and just would not stop pestering until you finally installed it. That is not a good initial indication. This is certainly not the first time such a problem has arisen. Stay away from this junk. It's horrible. Besides, there are much better tools free to download that are very user friendly and don't grab resources in the background.
Hey if you live and die by Norton's Antivirus, go for it. While you're busy doing live updates and have all that memory usage in the background, my free AVG will happily update in the background and not take the machine to task while doing it. To each his own, but I still think these two companies deserve each other. When your tech charges several hours of bench time every other month after all your yahooing to remove the adware/spyware/thiefware/etcware, don't bitch. That's my story n Ima stickin' to it.
"All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance."
-Hesburgh
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