norton antivirus is fucking bullshit

i’ll say it. norton anti virus is fucking bullshit for the following reasons.

1. it doesn’t detect the stuff you need it to. remember the internet worms in 2004? for example, the sasser worm? remember how of all the solutions your friends did for you, none of them involved norton anti virus?
2. when it does happen to detect a threat, it won’t fucking remove it. how many times have you experienced that old conundrum? it tells you that you have an infected file, and it proceeds to allow you to do absolutely nothing about it short of finding the file yourself and deleting it manually, if that is even possible
3. its virus scans mess everything up. its even been well documented. and the well documented solution? disable the email scans! that’s the only solution. i’ve got a better one. don’t install it in the first place. at my mom’s company, everyone is having a massive email problem, because the scanning slows down the email downloads until the POP server experiences a timeout. the very same problem as in the documentation.
4. it slows your system down tremendously. everyone knows this one. the more trusting and less experienced think its a problem with their own computers, a myth which is propagated no-good computer salesmen/”technicians” (usually old guys who don’t know jack shit about what they are recomending) who take the opportunity to sell them more ram and charge more “service fees” to run a simple disk defragment
5. the Norton Anti Virus for Macs fiasco. this loses points with most geeks, because everyone knows that there are no mac viruses. and don’t give me that Word-document macro virus bullshit.
6. most of the problems in computers today are caused by spyware. they do more damage than viruses since you don’t have to actively download and run them to get infected, and they accumulate so much. i’ve seen laptops and pc’s rendered useless because the spyware just slowed everything down to the point of inoperability. and norton doesn’t solve this, at least not in as efficient a manor as its competition. the most effective and efficient spyware removal software around? guess what.. they are 100% freeware. yes its our usual buddies, adaware and spybot. good job you guys.
7. and the biggest reason its bullshit? for all that crap, it still costs so much. you have to buy it off the shelf, that’ll set you back a couple hundred. then you got to subscribe to its updating service so you can get updates on viruses you won’t be able to remove from your computer anyway even if you actually do get them. then every year you got a new version coming out that basically does the same bullshit job the previous years did. no wonder piracy is rampant. you couldn’t pay me to use norton.

their main market are the non-tech savvy 40-50 year olds who are at this time in charge of things in companies, so much so that they’d spend thousands on their “product” when an excellant 100% free alternative exists that actually works. AVG doesn’t slow down the system, and it actually detects real threats and REMOVES THEM

if you are unwilling or unable to install software, trend micro‘s free anti virus is another alternative. its the one i recomended the most for people striken with self-sending msn messenger viruses.