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From: Jason Bourne on 5 Feb 2010 14:35
My ISP includes the Norton Security Suite as part if the monthly
subscription fee.

Upsides/downsides to installing on my iMac 21.5, SL 10.6.2?
From: Dave Fritzinger on 5 Feb 2010 14:40
On Feb 5, 9:35 am, Jason Bourne <j...(a)spy.net> wrote:
> My ISP includes the Norton Security Suite as part if the monthly
> subscription fee.
>
> Upsides/downsides to installing on my iMac 21.5, SL  10.6.2?

Don't do it!!! Norton is evil on Macs. It installs all sorts of kexts,
etc., which can make the system very unstable. In my case (a couple of
years ago), it also uses up lots of cpu cycles as well.
From: nospam on 5 Feb 2010 14:41
In article <hkhrur$5ba$1(a)news.albasani.net>, Jason Bourne <jg(a)spy.net>
wrote:

> My ISP includes the Norton Security Suite as part if the monthly
> subscription fee.
>
> Upsides/downsides to installing on my iMac 21.5, SL 10.6.2?

there are no viruses in the wild so there is no upside whatsoever. only
downsides. do not let norton anywhere near your macs. ever.
From: nospam on 5 Feb 2010 15:02
In article <4b6c771a$0$8556$ba624c82(a)nntp06.dk.telia.net>, Erik Richard
S�rensen <NOSPAM(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote:

> The only thing from today's Norton that's worth using on a
> Mac is the Norton Antivirus and nothing else - no firewall, no internet
> security!

there is no reason for *anything* norton especially the anti-virus.
From: J.J. O'Shea on 5 Feb 2010 15:23
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 14:35:53 -0500, Jason Bourne wrote
(in article <hkhrur$5ba$1(a)news.albasani.net>):

> My ISP includes the Norton Security Suite as part if the monthly
> subscription fee.
>
> Upsides/downsides to installing on my iMac 21.5, SL 10.6.2?

I'd not install Norton anything on any platform, Windows, Mac, or Linux.
Except maybe Norton 2010 on Windows. Maybe.

Do not install on Macs, Norton for Mac will eat your files. It is worse than
any actual Mac malware. If you must have A/V software installed, use ClamXav.
It's free and it can actually tell the difference between malware and your
data.

Do not install Norton 2009 on Windows. It will run very slowly, it will eat
all your memory, and it won't stop much malware. Norton 2010 is considerably
better, but then it'd hard to be worse.

There is no Norton for Linux. Don't even try.

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