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Who still uses Kazaa?
I was just asking myself the same thing. Kazaa is like, last century
I have to completely agree with this graph, best graph in a long time!
More importantly, who still uses Norton?
Poor saps who don’t know any better?
They would be examples of the same portion of the population that use McAfee.
Yeah. It’s probably the Flux Capacitor thats actually slowing it down.
hah my first thought too!
My thoughts, exactly.
I’m surprised you put it as anti-virus. Norton installed itself on my computer without my permission. And yesterday, McAfee installed without permission too.
I think these sites are VIRUSES not ANTI-VIRUSES
AGREED. McAfee installed itself with Adobe on my computer, suprise suprise, it went through, Adobe didn’t.
Norton is a massive Trojan. It takes over your computer. We had to completely redo 3 computers.
Every time Adobe Flash wants to update it has an opt-out McAfee installation, which is pretty easy to overlook. I try to avoid having McAfee or Norton anywhere on my computers, mainly because of the subscription issue. I use Avast antivirus instead, plus some others.
so true i had one in my pc bundle and after using windows restore norton prevent to PC form starting lol. i never used that crap again
You must be a moron. How the heck could Norton or McAfee “install themselves???” Please. LEARN how to use your computer BEFORE posting such idiotic things
Fake antiviruses?, anyone?
(Bogus antiviruses = troyans)
Simple. It comes packaged with another piece of software you do want, and you either miss the opt-out (because they never make it obvious) or there simply isn’t one. Then you find out as the other software is being installed that the AV is being installed as well, and have to uninstall it afterwards.
I updated Adobe Flashplayer yesterday and apparently missed the opt-out, if there was one. Fortunately, legit AVs like MacAfee don’t try to sabotage your hard drive when you try to remove them.
And if it’s not one of the legit brands, chances are it’s a worm that attached itself to something else and popped up on your screen as an ‘virus warning’ informing you of a virus you don’t have to get you to install the actual virus in the guise of an off-brand AV. My brother managed to download something to my computer the other day that had one that Kaspersky and Ad-Aware managed to miss, which popped up a fake warning that also managed to keep me from opening any program I might have used to get rid of it, until I used SmitFraudFix and did a Restore just in case.
You serious? Miss the opt-out? If you miss it then I stand perfectly behind David and telling being to stop being a moron and learn how to use your computer. If you miss it then you obviously aren’t very computer minded at all because I can’t think of one person who actually knows what “defrag /C /H /V /X” making that mistake… EVER. I know I sure as hell haven’t in many, many years. Let alone even a somewhat computer minded person like my girlfriend. I mean, sure, she makes a couple computer mistakes here and there but installing crapware should be everyone’s first lesson and common sense on where it appears should come with it.
He said that his BROTHER managed to do it, NOT him.
The worst is the subscription update. It’s closed several of my programs before because the subscription needed to be updated. I hate Norton. I want a mac D:
Hint: Macs also get viruses.
The person who programs viruses for the Mac must live a very sad existence.
And the people who program PC viruses are the life of the party?
Not *really*, but they’re just as vulnerable to trojans as Windows is because they still don’t have a built in app store, goodness knows why.
Hopefully they’ll announce their catching up to us in this Back to the Mac keynote.
You could also say that Windows don’t *really* get viruses on average use.
And look at what happened and is coming within 90 days. Good prediction.
Mac viruses have to be programmed specifically for the mac, so theres less because theres less of what one would call a “market” for viruses.
That being said they do exist, and as they increase in popularity (read:God knows why) I’m sure there will be more and more.
Then again traditional viruses aren’t nearly as popular anymore.
This is true, but malware on Macs generally works differently than malware targeting Windows PCs, because of the difference in the way the two work. It’s much easier to infect the entire computer through the browser on a PC, while on a Mac they generally have to target specific programs.
McAfee automatically renews your subscription, “for you convenience”.
Why don’t you just put Ubuntu on your existing computer? You can even keep Windows and switch between the two if you like!
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
lol Kazaa
here’s mine:
http://cheezburger.com/View/4084203008
Lol Trojans
It goes on and on and on and onnnnn… and it goes on and on and ONNNNNNNNNNN– I put my hands up in the air sometimes, sayin’ hey, you– use Ubuntuuuuuu..
Any Linux distro, really, though Ubuntu is nice.
My favorite is Linux Mint, which I describe as Ubuntu with a few more user-friendly dance moves.
“Norton Has Detected Itself” OH MY GOD! It’s self-aware!!
Norton is an expensive, bloated resource hog.
NO NO NO! This is all wrong!
It’s ALL Norton’s fault, not just 75%!
I actually did once have Norton detect one of its own files as a trojan, once. Still not sure how that works…
Uhm, not to be an arse here, but.. .. ..you’re still using Norton Antivirus? And KaZaA!? I haven’t séén KaZaA around since 2002..
..try BitDefender for your antivirus needs, and torrents for your download needs.. Works for me =)
Thanks! I really appreciate your help. The torrents and BitDefender is working great. I really needed your advice. Thanks again for your help!
Sick and tired of ill-informed self-proclaimed computer genius’ complaining that Norton slows their computer down. A. Norton was revamped in ’09, and since then Norton Antivirus (the ONLY one you should be using, NOT Internet Security, and NOT 360) has a VERY minimal impact on PC performance. Most people like to make themselves out to be all knowledgeable, and state things from 5 years ago, an eternity in technology
Well, said David. That being said Kazaa is from an eternity ago too.
Yep. The newest version of 360 (4.0) runs very pretty nice as well – no performance hit on my self-built i7 (Oc’d to 3.6ghz), 12gb DDR3, GTX295 rig of awesomeness… that still costs less than a Mac (about $2,000).
And yes, every OS can get a virus. By definition a virus is a piece of software that does something unintended. You could screw up a Linux box, Android (mobile OS), Mac OS or Windows equally bad with a virus. Its just that Windows makes up some 95% of the computer market, so why would you make a virus for anything else?
Says the person who still pays for anti-virus.
I think somebody is using an outdated version of Norton. I’ve read that the older versions sucked mightily, but the 2010 edition is one of the fastest, least resource-intensive suites on the market. And I don’t exactly have a fast laptop.
AV-Test.org is a great resource for this kind of thing.
You forgot a Hard Drive full of porn.
Norton IS the virus it should protect itself against.
And now to be serious: If Norton ANTIVIRUS 2010 (Not Internet or 360) is so resource friendly, I think I should check it out. But is it faster than Avast? (Freeware)
Couldn’t tell you for sure, but in terms of speed, I have to believe it’d be a close race. I switched from Avast!, which I do still like very much. But I switch programs on a year-to-year basis, based on what is scored best by independent security research firms like AV-Test.org. I certainly don’t play favourites between companies, and this is my first time using any Norton product (I’m running “Norton Security Suite,” which was provided free with my Comcast (ugh) service.
Comcast also provides other irritants with their service. For example, the DNS “helper” that makes your computer act like you’re SPECIFICALLY sending requests to Comcast to search for sites. It pretty much kills FireFox’s autocomplete function, is almost impossible to turn off…
Until y’all start discussing heuristics and host intrusion protection systems, as well as the differences between on-demand and real-time scanning, I tend to doubt your level of expertise.
There are two extremes that I’ve seen: with commercial anti-malware, you may have more than your system needs, and it can take some doing to trim it down. With freeware, you might not have enough. I had to cobble a few programs together to get the coverage I needed.
This was with Windows, though. Linux covers a lot more as-is (iptables, AppArmor, etc.)
you forgot Nero since version 8
You still use Kazaa?
Use Utorrent, Not that virus-loaded crap. I haven’t heard of someone use that since around 2002.
msn (ok live messenger) can make a computer slow down 2 espacially when you still have an older one from 2004 (with Win XP) and regret to buy a new one.
This graph was very true a few years ago. However… The last two years (2009 & 2010) Norton had became a lean, mean, fighting machine! I’ve been working along on my computer, and have a little window pop-up, saying that ‘Norton Internet Security is running in the background’, and with no slow-down even close to apparent!
Don’t believe me, then check-it-out for yourself! This graph no longer applies!
Have to say that I have never had a problem with Norton 360 and it does NOT use up resources. It runs quietly and unobtrusively in the background and covers browsing, emails in Outlook, messenger etc. I have never had a Trojan, spyware or any other nasties since using Norton 360.
I’ve used stuff like Norton and McAfee, and I’ve never been impressed with the speed-vs-effectiveness ratio of any of the “big” companies. I use SUPERAntiSpyware and Avira AntiVir. Both have free and non-free versions, and both are relatively fast. Heck, I run both of them on a NETBOOK, and it runs just fine. I’ve also enjoyed using AVG Antivirus by Grisoft in the past, but I prefer Avira’s AntiVir currently.
Forgot porn.
LOL use Linux.
Does noone use avg anymore?
AVG marked norton as a virus when it piggybacked on another download, because i was too tired to notice the opt out. Even though i know it isnt one, i thought it was kind of funny and let it delete it.
No one uses AVG anymore. AVG is garbage. Besides, no one cares. Now they have Avast, AVG is out of the equation.