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Norton antivirus
Hi, my girlfriend has inherited a Dell PC, but it has a brand spanking new and full version of Norton (bought by the previous owner) running on it. Now, every time she loads the PC up it takes about 1 - 2 minutes after the desktop appears before she can run any programmes because Norton is running a system check.
We are looking for a solution which allows us to use Norton as and when we would like, i.e. if we want a system scan we open Norton and do one ourselves without it running automatically and hogging the CPU usage. As it is, when I try to disable anything in Norton we get just as many messages as before only now they are telling us Norton is doing nothing and would we like it to start.
She doesn't want to uninstall it for reasons I will not go into here and my attempts to wean her onto one of the excellent free security programmes has failed miserably.
So, can we stop Norton being a pest (the last hassle I had like this was with some spyware) or are we doomed to watch the once powerful PC lumber along at an embarassing speed?
As usual any thoughts much appreciated, cheers in advance!
Dr. Lawrence Ho
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June 18th, 2007 21:00
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June 19th, 2007 09:00
Message Edited by europa303 on 06-19-2007 06:23 AM
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June 19th, 2007 14:00
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June 20th, 2007 01:00
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