This will not surprise anyone who knows about computer

[fpb]

How in the name of Hell and of every variety of evil did Norton Antivirus ever become the best-selling commercial protection software? The damned thing is as damaging as the viruses it's supposed to fight. It has just caused me the most elaborate and unmanageable computer crash I have ever seen, which even led to me being physically injured (as I was removing the battery and the power cable, the only way I could see to shut the machine down, it fell over straight on my ankle, where it cut right into the flesh). To misquote the old song, Norton is a moron.

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[patchworkmind.livejournal.com]

Part of it is marketing, and the other part is lots and lots of big licensing agreements with really huge companies and computer manufacturers. I detest Norton and have not used any of their products since the mid-90s. They are terrible and completely overrun your system and cause even the best systems to lag and do odd things.

I use AVG and Avast antivirus softwares.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

So do I, except Norton was pre-installed in my new laptop. I thought it could do no harm to have it on for the one free month. HAH! I did not even know that a computer could crash like that, with the screen fading on and off, pieces of graphics from different pages chaotically arranged in varying pattersn, and, of course, absolutely no response to the "shut down" and "ctrl+alt+del" commands. Some day when I've calmed down and my ankle has stopped hurting, it will make a scary campfire story to tell any grandchildren.

[patchworkmind.livejournal.com]

Norton is insidious. Hopefully they will have been stamped out before your grandchildren arrive. One generation having to deal with the Norton menace should be enough for the world to learn the lesson.