norton antivirus problem

[newguy5]

my norton antivirus locks up on reboot. you see the "please wait while closing program" dialog box when i restart. had it with xp for years and never had this problem. it doesn't give me any problems during regular use, just at shutdown/restart. i tried reinstalling to no avail. anyone else have this problem?

 

[SirKenin]

Your problem is that you're using Norton. Get rid of it. Try Kaspersky, Panda, Avast or Avira. You'll thank me later.

 

[_simon_]

Have you tried a system restore to before the problem started?

 

[newguy5]

Have you tried a system restore to before the problem started?

it did it ever since windows was installed, so there is nowhere to go back to. is avira better? i know that's free around here somewhere...

 

[newguy5]

i downloaded avg 7.5 and it's using 100MB less RAM just running in windows over norton. damn never knew norton was that much of a memory hog!

 

[SirKenin]

Avira and Avast are both better than AVG and Norton.

 

[newguy5]

Avira and Avast are both better than AVG and Norton.

cool. yeah i downloaded avira and am using it now. thanks. i didn't realize norton was such crap.