Norton slower than.. well it's slow

Hello,
I can't figure this one out. Norton 2004 ani-virus on this system is painfully slow, a file per second slow and usually fails. I tried conservativeswapfile, stacks and buffers and files, shutting off everything when it runs, registry edits to numerous(and undone) to list, the symantic recommended settings all to no avail. I've uninstalled it and reinstalled it, the thing literally goes one file per second through 41,700+ files. Agony. Is it DMA perhaps, VCACHE ? This is one of the few programs I bought because I believe it's the best anti-virus security. Haven't called them, mabey I will. Any ideas, I'd appreciate it thanks. regards,

 

Being a former user of NAV for the last 4 years, I found every version to be slower than the last.

I'm not even going to consider 2004. Too much bloat, too little detection for my taste, at least in the previous versions.

Has this always been slow for you?

 

If this has always been slow, Im outta ideas. You cant even tweak priority to give it more CPU cycles in 98...

If its happened recently, I would blame the verisign/symantec issue.

 

Hello,

Yeah, scan is painfully slow. I dunno. It actually slows down the entire system the thing has so many apps running;however, it has caught ever single worm, virus and trojan so far. 5 hits and it got them all. It's just amazingly slow, the scan, and it bogs down the whole system. I'll figure something out. Regards,

 

Hey WC You might want to take a gander at this thread from yesterday. Janet's problems were of a different nature--XP was opening way slow for her--but there's some discussion of Norton/Symantec in it. Who knows? <shrug>There may be something there you can use.

 

Something else to note.

600mhz is very much yesterday's tech. As your sig says, useable, definately.

But, bloated programs will run much slowwwwwwwer, than say on an Athlon XP 2500+ w/ PC2700 DDR.