17 February, 2007

GRT-815M - Norton AntiVirus slow-down

If you still keep your preinstalled Norton AntiVirus and you have upgraded to Windows XP SP2 you may experience serious performance decrease of your old computer. Possible solution for you might be to install/replace your memory to 1GB. Anyway, the reason for the slow-down comes especially from the AntiVirus program. PROPER REMOVAL (uninstallation) of the program gives you back all the glory of your otherwise powerful computer. Uninstalling the NAV might be tricky so, take some time to read some posts on the net about the problem.

http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=61013
http://basconotw.mvps.org/SymRem.htm

These posts are a little bit outdated but they will give you a clear idea about the situation. Last year (2006), I used the latest NAV uninstall tool and that one did well. There was still some traces after that but some manual intervention helped as well. I have to say also that this did not help the same way on another computer, when replacing NAV2007 with SAV2006 did not work for the firewall. So, proceed with caution. To summarize: if it works for you and you don't experience performance problems - keep it. Otherwise you may consider replacing it with AVG free (that was my choice). AVG also slow down a little bit the computer but it is way better than NAV. So, that is all from me.

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