Norton Anti-Virus. O! How I hate thee, Norton Anti-Virus.

I had anti-virus software at home free from my job. This, of course, evaporated when I retired. Darwin already had Norton on his computer, so we just extended his subscription to me.

It was a disaster.

Norton wants to run my computer. It refused to allow certain perfectly safe programs to operate. It throttled back my internet connection so badly, I could only visit a handful of sites. It refused to allow me to pause its protection or stop it from throttling (and I wanted to throttle it back). Their customer service is apparently very familiar with this problem (and why, pray, don't they FIX IT, then?). They said the solution is to uninstall Norton and re-install. With gritted teeth, I did this. It worked. For about three days. Then the problem started all over again.

I destroyed Norton on my computer. I mashed it, mangled it, and tore it into bits, which I burned.

Now I have Avast, which works perfectly well, is cheaper, and doesn't take over my computer.

Never Norton. 

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