SecurityRatty: Norton AV 2009 is fast and resource lite?

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Norton AV 2009 is fast and resource lite?

2008-09-17 23:44:00 by Doug Woodall in The Spyware Biz Blog

We shall see my pretty, we shall see.

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Norton AntiVirus 2009: First Norton not to suck?

The first thing we noticed about the product was that it’s fast. We clicked one button and by the time we’d Alt-tabbed between the installer, YouTube, and back again (about a minute) it had installed itself. Once up and running, the main menu displays a graph showing CPU activity and how much of that activity is down to Norton AntiVirus 2009. Typically, this hovered around the 5% mark, which isn’t much to worry about. Memory usage averages less than 7MB between scans, which is also impressive.