"Sorry to throw Symantec under the bus, but the AV program and AV mentality that they have created amounts to a CPU tax. We don't have 4 core machines, we have 3 cores plus for one for Symantec, which manages to have the deadlock everything while it scans a single file.My father, also in IT, has the theory that Symantec's goal is to consume your computer's resources to the point where a virus would give up and realize that your computer isn't worth being used in a botnet or for extortion.extortionAround the computer shop's i've worked at we joke that we'd rather have a virus than norton on our machines, at least the virus won't charge you a fee to mess up your OS.'"
My father, also in IT, has the theory that Symantec's goal is to consume your computer's resources to the point where a virus would give up and realize that your computer isn't worth being used in a botnet or for extortion.
Around the computer shop's i've worked at we joke that we'd rather have a virus than norton on our machines, at least the virus won't charge you a fee to mess up your OS.
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