Has Symantec finally gotten it right?
I have often written about how intrusive and heavy-handed Symantec’s Norton security software was. For example, I have seen too many systems that were slowed to a crawl by Norton anti-virus. For several years there have been promises that Symantec was going to improve things but opinions have been very mixed about how successful these efforts have been. Now Symantec has supposedly done a big rewrite of its security suite and If Walter Mossberg is right, maybe progress is finally being made, He writes:
Too often, security programs significantly slow down the computer, causing lags in booting up the machine, launching programs and receiving email. Not only that, they can be incredibly annoying, popping up frequent messages or asking questions in techie lingo.
Now, Symantec has decided to radically rewrite its main security suite for Windows to directly address these problems. And in my tests, this new product, Norton Internet Security 2009, largely succeeded. It isn’t perfect, but it is the fastest, simplest and least obtrusive security suite I have ever used.
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