Hey, Norton…
A Gnomie (Jason Fling) agrees with my perspective on Norton's Crapware, after one of our contributors posted something about it being a great suite of tools: “I'd have to respectively disagree with your listing of Norton Systemworks on the best diagnostics tools list. A quick Google search will reveal an above normal amount of problems with the last few versions. With my own experience, the only consumer product that Symantec makes that I recommend to my customer is Norton AV. Even with NAV 2004 & 2005 the activation portion of the setup is so clumsy and bulky that it's hard to recommend it, but no other manufacturer even gets close to NAV, when working properly.”
I used to love Norton Utilities and Norton Commander. And in that spriit, here are a few recommendations from the ocean of Explorer alternatives: freeCommander, Servant Salamander, Pablo Commander, BG's A43, Total Commander, EF Commander, AB Commander, Turbo Navigator, 2xExplorer, ExplorerXP, and ZTreeWin File Manager.
Optimize 3.0 is an excellent tool to have in your arsenal. Use it to clean up your computer, free up space by removing junk files, and to generally speed up your computer. You spend a lot of time using your machine... don't you want it to run at its optimum speed and efficiency?
5 Comments
Anonymous
October 16th, 2004
at 7:14pm
What I can't figure out is why Symantec bloats their consumer version of antivirus. Their corporate edition is small, sweet and to the point. It's has a simple installer, low memory overhead, and it's non-intrusive and easy to configure.
Melissa Ray
October 16th, 2004
at 8:24pm
I must agree Norton, has screwed up my own system and even disabled a clients pc so I urge everyone I talk to not to use there anti virus or Internet security software.
Anonymous
October 16th, 2004
at 8:30pm
“but no other manufacturer even gets close to NAV, when working properly.”
This person obviously has never heard of Kaspersky. Or looked at their track record against every known antivirus vendor. If they had – they definitely would't have made this blanket comment.
12Volts
October 17th, 2004
at 4:54pm
Well – from what I've seen Nod32 is as least as good a Norton at detecting nasties – and it is a hell of a lot faster at doing it. Seems to do ok at the VB 100 as well http://www.virusbtn.com/news/latest_news/index.xml
scott a
October 18th, 2004
at 3:31am
I don't even like norton for AV… I prefer AVG free edition .. http://www.grisoft.com