Have you installed Norton’s AntiVirus 2004? I have. Can someone explain to me why six different processes need to be running to “protect” me from attacks? I mean, it used to just be just one simple process and that was only if I had Auto Protect on? No, you can’t explain it, so don’t even try.
For people that are running McAfee’s AV: is your scanner any better than this? I’m looking to trade up, and soon, I think.
I’ve been running Norton’s AV for a long while, from around 1997 at least. In fact, I’m just about to send in my original NAV 2000 CD to retrieve my System Works 2004 Pro rebate, so I have proof that I’ve used it for a while. From 97 to 2002 I religiously upgraded both my copies of NAV and Quicken. I didn’t update either in 2003 because Quicken hasn’t changed much since 2001 and NAV had a subscription for a year that kept me up to date. For a long while, NAV 2002 was fine. It had a couple of processes that ran: one for email, one for Auto Protect and one “shared” process.
That was then. This is now. At it’s install, there were about eight processes running. I’ve since turned off Auto Protect, and a few other things, to bring it down to three. I don’t scan email on my notebook because I don’t use it remotely for email often these days. I certainly turned off active/realtime compression scanning becaues it was slowing things a good deal, especially during installs. After all of this, I still have to have three different services running, and at all times, it seems. If they aren’t running, I can’t scan my hard drive “on demand”. I would have thought that launching the client would start them (if they needed to be running at all) but oh no… they have to be kept running. What do they do? No one knows. The closest thing I’ve heard is that they are shared components for Symantec products, and they are required. [Glare.]
What I want is this: AV software for users that are smart enough to never install a CAB – through IE or by download – if they don’t know who it’s from or what it does. An AV edition for people that are smart enough to never open an attachment from someone they don’t know and to never open an attached PIF file even if it’s from God! An AV version that only scans a HD when a user asks it to and without requiring enough running process that a user is required to think of the dreaded term “TSR” while looking at the Task Manager.
This should be possible, shouldn’t it? I’m hoping that McAfee has just such an implementation, because I know that Symantec does not and I don’t like it one bit.
You should try out AVG antvirus. I switched to that from McAfee/Norton and my pc runs a lot better now. Newer versions of norton/mcafee install to much junk, especially Systemworks. Not only that, their update often fails. AVG seems to update virus defs. every day with a small file and it does it fast. Norton Liveupdate would often fail as would Mcafee. (oem versions running on various pcs).
I’ve been using AVG http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php and have had no problems with it whatsoever. Plus, it’s free.
Free? Sounds almost a little too open source for my liking for something like AV software… old-fashioned I know, but still. I was hoping that McAfee didn’t load all the crap that Norton does, but it looks like that’s not the case, huh?
I found that while Panda installed a few services, I could turn them all off and then the GUI client would start them if needed. This worked for me. Can’t stand McAfee or Norton.
Panda is at pandasoftware.com.
I use Norton AV 2003 on my laptop, and I only have 2 processes running on my system that I know are Norton. I have Autoprotect turned on, but e-mail scanning is turned off.
I also use McAfee on a desktop computer. I guess technically it isn’t McAfee AV anymore. It is McAfee Security Center. The only component I have is AV though. Processes? 7. And the descriptions of those processes is so vague, I’m not sure which ones I could disable. But it is a desktop system that I rarely use (I have very little software even installed on it) so I’m not too worried about it.
You’ve got more than 2 – you just don’t know you do. You’ll see that you have CCAPP, CCEVTMGR, and CCSETMGR – those three are Norton, so add those three to whatever eles you have knocking around :) Sounds like McAfee sucks as bad, tho, too.
Suddenly, my Norton 2004 (personal) stopped scanning my e-mail. This was right after surfing and caught the JS.Exception Exploit Trojan. Deleted all the Temp files, went to Housecall. Used Ad-aware and Spybot. Checked the regedit but couldn’t find it anywhere. I bought this pooter from Dell so I don’t have the Norton disk to re-install the proggie. Any ideas on what to do? I don’t use Outlook (hotmail only) so it’s not a biggie. jus wunderin