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<blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 5335462" data-attributes="member: 41321">If I'm not already using that version I hope my ISP upgrades to it soon...&nbsp; My husband had to turn off some of the features on his laptop because Norton absolutely slowed it to a crawl and made it feasibly unusable.&nbsp; He was very close to ditching it until I convinced him to just turn some of the features down.&nbsp; (He's the one that always gets viruses, never me, so I really don't want him running antivirus-less.)On my beefy desktop machine (which I spec'd out for gaming) it adds an additional 5 minutes to the startup time and if I try to use web applications before it's ready it can cause that application (or the entire machine, sometimes) to freeze until Norton's finished doing it's thing.&nbsp; When this sort of thing happens I can't help but think of the security at an airport.&nbsp; It's like Norton has to stop and frisk each of my applications and scan their luggage before they can board their plane.Once that's done it doesn't affect my machine speed as far as I can tell, but the startup lag is seriously annoying.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Merkuri, post: 5335462, member: 41321"] If I'm not already using that version I hope my ISP upgrades to it soon... My husband had to turn off some of the features on his laptop because Norton absolutely slowed it to a crawl and made it feasibly unusable. He was very close to ditching it until I convinced him to just turn some of the features down. (He's the one that always gets viruses, never me, so I really don't want him running antivirus-less.) On my beefy desktop machine (which I spec'd out for gaming) it adds an additional 5 minutes to the startup time and if I try to use web applications before it's ready it can cause that application (or the entire machine, sometimes) to freeze until Norton's finished doing it's thing. When this sort of thing happens I can't help but think of the security at an airport. It's like Norton has to stop and frisk each of my applications and scan their luggage before they can board their plane. Once that's done it doesn't affect my machine speed as far as I can tell, but the startup lag is seriously annoying. [/QUOTE]

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