10th February 2004, 4:20 PM
Quote:Well, I'm not saying Norton is bad. Both of them do their jobs well enough. Thing is, Norton for some time was a huge resource hog, and as of late, McAfee is the glutton. eTrust however is designed to be very resource friendly, mainly due to it's primary target audience, business servers and such, where resource hogging is immediatly noticed and can cause some major problems. Well, actually a while back they had a bug in one of their releases that caused the program to go giant sized in memory in some configurations after a certain amount of time. Fortunatly, they are very prompt in fixing such memory leaks.
I meant lucky I've only got one, not lucky that Norton caught it... though that is true too because I don't have it do full scans very often, and it doesn't check email on online stuff and the version I have doesn't seem to be able to hook into Netscape so it doesn't check files I download off the web either... or, obviously, stuff from filesharing...
I wish I could attribute the hideous state of non-working-right my computer is in most of the time, but unfortunately it's not... it's just not much free HDD space, WinME and its memory leaks, WinME and its crashing tendencies, and other related problems I guess... though my comp wasn't like this for the first year. It got bad at some point... but now it's been messed up in one way or another most of the time for over a year now...