![]() I downloaded the trial version and used it while I waited for my full version from Amazon. I wouldn't be saving money (there are cheaper options but they seemed to be more difficult to use) but I'd finally get what I was paying for. It was easy to use (a good selling point for Norton and McAfee) but it didn't do all of the bad things. I started to research it everywhere else on the Internet, and it kept getting great reviews. Not surprisingly, Norton and McAfee rounded out the bottom of their list for the same reasons I found.ĬNET gave Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 rave reviews. First I asked a few friends and got the same number of recommendations. This time, I decided to be a smart consumer and research before I blindly upgraded Norton for the seventh year in a row. I was upgrading to Windows Vista 圆4 Ultimate and that required yet another Norton upgrade. It was slow to load and unload and it was a huge application. I knew from two of my friends that McAfee Internet Security Suite 2007 had the same types of issues. I wasn't happy with Norton, but I felt locked in. I would also see errors periodically that turned out to be various executables used by Norton. Second, I noticed that many times on shutdown or restart, the ccApp executable would often need to be manually shut down before XP could be shut down. I was happy with my spyware scanner but Norton was starting to get annoying.įirst of all, Norton took a long time to load on startup with Windows XP Professional. ![]() Norton didn't offer a spyware scanner, so I was also using LavaSoft Ad-Aware Plus to scan for spyware. I had been using Norton Internet Security 2007 for six years, though I had always turned off their anti-spam option in favor of another companies anti-spam software (they went out of business last year though I was still using their product without updates and it was still better than Norton's product). ![]()
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