Hello everyone,
I didn't think this actually needed to go in the Virus subcategory as it's not really a virus question, it's an antivirus question.
I've been a big fan of Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition v7-v9 for a long time. Used it at work, used it at home in standalone mode. However, last week I reinstalled my home computer with a fresh XP Pro SP2. I reinstalled all my usual apps, but left the NAV Corp 9 install disk at work. Then I caught a cold and took time off work and basically, have been using my system without virus protection for about a week.
The system is running like a dream. Easily much snappier/faster than it was with NAV. Naturally, I'm running with scissors a bit by not having any AV protection, but I did a little research and found many reports of how chunky NAV makes your system. Being a NAV fan for years and years I just learned to accept that however it does it's realtime protection probably gives me a performance hit of some sort. But, now that I have a fresh system that just runs smoother and the only thing missing is NAV, I am starting to look towards other products.
So my question is, does anyone else have any experience with NAV and also says, "Yeah, that thing does slow down computers quite a bit". And if that is the case, is there another product I should be looking into for home use? My research turned up a few people complaining about NAV's system performance hit but those comments didn't give me much technical information to base a AV software change on.
Note that I'm a IT professional and network administrator, there are no kids in the house using this workstation, and I'm not lurking in dark corners of the internet downloading files from P2P networks. In the past 9 months of my old install of XP Pro NAV only flagged 2 viruses, which probably came from random email. So there is obviously a risk there, and I don't like being completely unprotected for those just-in-case situations. However I need to find something that provides me with protection but without the (presumed) NAV performance hit.
Thanks for any advice!
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