Help - I.T. Question

[Lord Steve]

Can any of you IT literate people help an ageing Luddite?
I've a new laptop running Windows 7 and it was working perfectly well with a free. pre-loaded, version of McAfee. When the free period ran out I bought, following a recommendation, Norton Internet Security 2010 and loaded this up, deleting the McAfee files during the process.
All looks well but the time taken to load web pages, particularly those containing images, is noticeably and irritatingly slow.

Anyone got any suggestions?

Cheers

[Steve Pyro]

Yes, get rid of Norton ..... seriously.  It filters EVERYTHING and is very invasive.

There's plenty of free antivirus 'lite' products out there.  Windows 7 has a decent firewall and can sit alongside a (free) copy of Microsoft Security Essentials to adequately protect your PC. http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

[landman]

Steve,

I agree with Steve.  Norton is the spawn of the Devil himself.  McAfee is not much better.

If you must have internet security over and above Windows then try Kaspersky.  I have that on my work laptop and my daughter's laptop.  Seems to do the job without slowing everything down.

The only trouble with Norton is that it's a b1tch to uninstall completely.  After you have uninstalled by the usual route perform a search for Norton & keep deleting files until they are all gone.

Better still ditch windows altogether and load up a copy of Ubuntu 10.04 [Linux] and run that instead.  So much faster, virtually no virii and you'll still be able to use Firefox, Google Chrome and Mozilla Thunderbird [email].  Just as an experiment I tried working for an entire day without switching over to Windows and was pleasantly surprised at the results.  My only problem was retrieving an email attachment from Outlook.  And the best thing about Ubuntu is that's it's free!

Paul / Landman

[Lord Steve]

Thanks for the advice guys. Now uninstalling!!

[DelBoy]

I agree with the others.

Norton leaves scraps all over the place.  There are some freebie specialist Norton uninstallers out there.  I have used one called Perfect Uninstaller.

Del

[Barry]

Uninstalled Norton 10 months ago, or thought I had.
On the advice on here, ran a search, 50 items came up.