Just thought I'd let you know I've finally got rid of NAV. I've spent the last couple of days trying to find out why my web browsing has slowed to a crawl. Numberous scans with NAV wouldn't pick anything up. Trying various online virus scanners didn't work as they kept 'freezing' on me although a couple of viruses did get cleaned during that process. The last online scan I was trying I actually watched for a while and interestingly I saw a pop up from the task bar advising NAV was awaiting a scan -- hmmm . I disabled auto-protect and the scan completed. I forgot to turn on auto-protect and lo and behold I can browse like a whirling dervish. Switch auto-p back on and back to a crawl again. Thinking about it in hindsight I had noticed a pop-up a few days ago advising me that NAV had 'auto-updated' itself and this is probably about the time my probs started but I hadn't twigged that that was the cause of my probs. Anyway, for the time being I have AVG Free on my PC and NAV has been completely un-installed :partyman:
I don't think you will regret that decision at all.
I got rid of the Norton bloatware years ago now and have never looked back. I use Avast now myself, but I hear AVG is also a much better AV than Norton.
Indeed, like many 'good' products (note the quotes) Norton does little more than spread it's tentacles throughout one's system, and is not even particularly good at what it does. While there are good free firewalls out there, AVG free and the windows firewall is much more than adequate for the job. And AVG doesn't rage around the memory like Pac-Man...
AVG has come in for much critisim of late for "missing" viruses. I'm a Trend man myself, but the latest tinking on here seems to be AVAST... certainly CB has had much praise for it.
Yes, I use Avast and love it...I recommend that if you think you have uninstalled Norton's, search your registry for "Nortons". You may be surprised at how many remnants get left in there :o
Yes, I concur with the registry antics of Norton. I think I shall take good advice and try out Avast - as Samantha has managed to knacker AVG somehow by doing 'something' when it was updating, and now it won't do so after numerous restarts :brick:
. I disabled auto-protect and the scan completed. I forgot to turn on auto-protect and lo and behold I can browse like a whirling dervish. Switch auto-p back on and back to a crawl again. Thinking about it in hindsight I had noticed a pop-up a few days ago advising me that NAV had 'auto-updated' itself and this is probably about the time my probs started but I hadn't twigged that that was the cause of my probs. Anyway, for the time being I have AVG Free on my PC and NAV has been completely un-installed :partyman: 
