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Norton has been a dog for a decade and it does not want to be taken
out as you have seen. McAffe is another dog that will slow your system
by at least 20%.. Everyone has a favorite but we at IDesigns and at
home have been using Zone Alarm interntet protection suite for over a
decade... When kept up it does a great job without taking over your
whole system, easy interface, very user friendly especially if you
start in "learn" mode which helps you get it up and running based on
your use... Just my opinion, it's well worth the money. I think a 4
licence pack costs us about 70 bucks a year...

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I used to have Zone Alarm in one of the computers I had several years ago.
At first it seemed to work fine but over time I started having problems with
the computer bogging down and not allowing certain events to happen even
though I "permitted" them or simply taking forever for them to happen. In
my attempts to fix the problem, I disabled Zone Alarm and the computer went
back to normal.

That was years ago and maybe it was an early version or the problem was
unique to that particular computer. But, you know, Norton has sort of the
same history. I remember having it on some early computers and it was fine.
Didn't seem to bother or affect the computer's operations or speed.
But, over the years I've noticed that Norton seems to have grown to the
point where it seems to cause more problems than it prevents. I recall a
computer Mrs.E. had a few years ago. It was slowly bogging down to the
point where it would barely run. I am no computer guru, but she asked me
to look at it and I tried all the very basic maintenance things like defrag
and disk clean up. Nothing helped. Then I noticed that Norton was there
doing all kinds of stuff, so I disabled it and rebooted the computer leaving
Norton disabled. The computer ran fine again.

Eisboch