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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Ick! Anything Symantec is going to make your computer run like a slug. It's nasty stuff.
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Utterly untrue.
Note that I said "Symantec
Corporate A/V". The Corporate version is relatively low resource and has never caused a problem here.
I do
not recommend Norton A/V, the consumer product made by Symantec. It has bad cases of "does not play well with others", and
is nasty stuff.
(I've been in IT in one fashion or another since the IBM mainframe days, and have done desktop support in corporate settings. I do know a bit about this stuff.)
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The best speed up to any computer is to get rid of it. It's better then overclocking. We use Comodo here and it runs quite nicely. before that we did run AVG free until they came out with a new version that made it run like a slug too.
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I looked at Comodo's firewall, but dropped it and went back to Sygate Personal Firewall. SPF does what it needed and has a vastly better interface.
I'm aware of Comodo's A/V offering, but passed. Symantec auto-updates on a weekly basis from a very large and well maintained virus signature database. My question about smaller competitors like Comodo is whether they have the resources to keep up effectively on the threats. (They may well. As mentioned, Symantec works fine here, so I've had no reason to investigate alternatives.)
If Comodo works for you, enjoy.
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Dennis