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Analysis: Norton Slows Down Windows
Nathan Weinberg
Contributing Writer
2006-09-13
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ThePCSpy did an analysis of many major Windows programs in order to determine which one slows down Windows the most.
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Included were McAfee SecurityCentre, Microsoft Office 2003, OpenOffice 2.0.3, Windows Live Messenger 8, Yahoo Instant Messenger 8.0, AOL Instant Messenger 1.5 Preview, Trillian 3.1 Basic, Gaim 1.5.0, Apple QuickTime 7.1, DivX 6.3, Kazaa 3, Azureus 2.5.0.0, uTorrent 1.4, BitComet 0.7, WinRAR, WinZIP, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Java Runtime 1.5.0.06, .NET Framework Runtime 2.0, DirectX 9.0c, and several other programs, codec and font packs.
The absolute worst offender, no surprise to me, was Norton Internet Security 2006. Anyone who has used Norton to protect their system knows that nothing ruins a computer faster, making your computer run so slow that any security benefit just isn't worth it. Now, you've got some amount of proof. Norton increased boot time on a completely clean system to 118.33 seconds, up 43 seconds from 75, and delayed the system by almost 58%.
I don't know what the numbers for Windows Live OneCare are (and hopefully Oli will give it a test), but considering that Norton scored as poorly as expected, this is your best reason to get a subscription to OneCare. It's still just $20.
(via Download Squad)
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