I see where I say that I use Norton but I’m still looking for the part in the article where I say you should too. Also, don’t most “average” users boot their computers, browse directories, move and copy files, install and uninstall software, convert music files to other file types, and zip & unzip files?

What else would you say the average user does? Your one example was play games. Personally, I don’t think the average user plays games that would require a lot of resources. My definition of the average user is someone that surfs the internet, uses email, and does typical word processing. When I think average user, I don’t think of a “resource hungry” gamer.

I see where you say that personally you use Kaspersky. Disregarding the editor’s choice in the pcmag.com chart above, the percentages speak for themselves. Norton and Kaspersky were not much different when it came to performance for the average user and whatever you’re inclined to believe, that comparison is backed up by facts.

symantec are victims of their own success, they have got so big and have sold so many copy’s of their antivirus and security suites that they are literally being ‘picked on’ by hackers and other malicious users. Viruses and malware etc are being coded to specifically target machines with Norton on them, due to this, even their firewall is like Swiss cheese, there are so many holes in it that it makes it almost impossible not to bypass it if you tried…

I personally use kaspersky, along with spybot search and destroy, and malwarebytes, as no antivirus in infallible, others that are good are mc’afee, zone alarm and avg… please get rid of it as soon as possible, and never use it again..

Norton has 1 great product…. Norton Ghost, they should leave it as that !!

It’s interesting that you say that because that is something I specifically address in the article. Take a look at the first graphic in this article, which was obtained from pcmag.com. PCmag.com actually outlines the overall performance of each security suite and Norton came out on top with the best performance rating. So if everybody knows that Norton is a resource hog then someone should inform PCmag.com.

You should be fine to update to SP3. I actually went ahead and did that on one of my XP machines and I haven’t had any problems.

It was on my Vista machine. It actually hijacked IE-7 and FF.

Zach

Out of curiosity what platform where you using when you got hijacked? XP or Vista… IE or FF, and if IE what version?

Dave