Comcast users should avoid installing Norton/Symantec

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As most of the Minneapolis/St. Paul readers of this blog know, our choices of getting high speed internet are limited to pretty much 2 corporations in town. Comcast and Qwest.   As a residential computer repair tech, here is how I see the choices being made.

• Home users with a phone/landline, have Qwest.
• Home users without a phone/landline have Comcast.

According to my website statistics, in the past month out of almost 4000 visitors, 1800 are cable users 951 are DSL. This also includes visitors from around the world too, so it’s not just local stats, but interesting nonetheless.

Now, on to my latest Comcast rant. According to their press relase dated Jan 20th, 2010

http://www.comcast.com/About/PressRelease/PressReleaseDetail.ashx?PRID=957

• Comcast Partners With Symantec to Offer Award-Winning Norton Security Suite to Its High-Speed Internet Customers

• Norton Offers Superior Protection, Robust Family Safety Tools and Fast Scanning Speeds

Call That Girl has a problem with this press release. Norton/Symantec is far from “Award winning” in our computer repair shop. Norton/Symantec is one of the antivirus programs that I see in the shop BY FAR more than any other. Not only are they not catching the latest Malware viruses, but the program is so slow for some users, that they call us to figure out why it’s slow…only to have me SHOW them, their Norton/Symantec is killing their computer. Of a slow painful death. I also have to add, I call it far from ROBUST. Sure it has all the bells and whistles, but it doesn’t work.

1. Pay us to remove it? Sure
2. Remove it yourself? Great!
3. Never install it? BEST CHOICE
4. Install and purchase a Malwarebytes Anti Malware license? Most awesome choice! Click on the image below to get Malwarebytes with CTG’s anti-virus protection plan.

Mind you, I also wasn’t a fan of the McAfee product they used to give away either, but if I had to make a choice of one over the other…I would probably chose McAfee.

To close, I will add that Qwest used to (not sure if they do now) offer Windows Live One Care, but they probably won’t be in the future, as it’s being discontinued.

http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-in/default.htm?mkt=en-in

Microsoft’s replacement product though is is quite nice. Read my blog a couple down for a review on that.

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