Norton Utilities. Symantec software...

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AndreRio

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Is it worth buying Symantec software anymore? (Why do they still exist?)
 
They may have improved their software starting around 2009, but their billing practices are still unforgivable. Do not ever let them have your credit card info.
 
Someone I worked with just told me that McAfee does similar things. She was paying for 6 computers that they don't even have anymore.

Symantec does make a much better and lighter AV product than they have in the past though. However, some of their products like 360 makes you pay for functions that are included with Windows or could be downloaded for free. If someone had their heart set on Symantec, I wouldn't recommend anything more than their plain-Jane Anti-Virus product, which is the lowest costing. Anything more than that is just wasteful.
 
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BitDefender destroys Norton and McAfee. So does Vipre, although Vipre's site and file blocking for "known bads" can be irritating at times, blocking stuff that I KNOW is not bad. Vipre's learning firewall is good, too, if you don't mind it asking to approve each new program that tries to make outgoing connections.

I have no idea why people still use Norton or McAfee.
 
You're right... it's not bloated... lol

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You would have done better to suggest googling for "bitdefender cpu usage" which shows lots of reports of excessive CPU usage, than posting an image of its system requirements which did nothing to suggest it was bloated. But then I'm not sure that's a valid way of knowing, because you get similar complaints for any AV when you search for its title with "CPU usage".
 
evilsofa said:
You would have done better to suggest googling for "bitdefender cpu usage" which shows lots of reports of excessive CPU usage, than posting an image of its system requirements which did nothing to suggest it was bloated. But then I'm not sure that's a valid way of knowing, because you get similar complaints for any AV when you search for its title with "CPU usage".
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I think what I'm getting here is the amount of required disk space compared to other AV.

MSE: 200MB
Avast AV: 200MB
Avast Full Internet Security: 380MB
BitDefender: 1.8GB
 
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