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It's official
Jan. 17th, 2005 04:24 pmNORTON ANTIVIRUS 2005 = BLOATED PIECE OF CRAP
I've seen it run (or attempt to run) on six machines now.
Of those six, one was rendered unusable by the software. Of course, it was a P1-166, so I don't count that one. (Incidentally, Symantec claims that all you need for a 98 box is a P1-133. Can you say "bullshit?" I knew you could.)
But of the remaining five, ALL of them met or exceeded Symantec's alleged "minimum system requirements" for the damn thing (well, okay, the P1 did too, but I still don't count it). Two of them were P4's, 2.6GhZ+.
One was a big badass box that gritted its little teeth and ran the son of a bitch at a somewhat acceptable speed.
Two of the remaining four dragged ass. Horribly. One, sitting behind me right now, is a pretty new Gateway laptop trying its damndest to start up. It's a Celeron, yes, and it just skates into the RAM requirement, yes, but it's way above and beyond the required 300MhZ CPU. It takes a solid ten minutes to start Auto-Protect. I shit you not. Ten minutes.
The remaning two simply threw up their hands and said oh, fuck this shit and refused to run it.
I actually went so far as to stomp into Boss #1's office and declare that there was no way in hell I was selling NAV2005, because my conscience would not allow me to accept money in exchange for it.
I used to hate AVG and love Norton. Now it's the other way around.
I've seen it run (or attempt to run) on six machines now.
Of those six, one was rendered unusable by the software. Of course, it was a P1-166, so I don't count that one. (Incidentally, Symantec claims that all you need for a 98 box is a P1-133. Can you say "bullshit?" I knew you could.)
But of the remaining five, ALL of them met or exceeded Symantec's alleged "minimum system requirements" for the damn thing (well, okay, the P1 did too, but I still don't count it). Two of them were P4's, 2.6GhZ+.
One was a big badass box that gritted its little teeth and ran the son of a bitch at a somewhat acceptable speed.
Two of the remaining four dragged ass. Horribly. One, sitting behind me right now, is a pretty new Gateway laptop trying its damndest to start up. It's a Celeron, yes, and it just skates into the RAM requirement, yes, but it's way above and beyond the required 300MhZ CPU. It takes a solid ten minutes to start Auto-Protect. I shit you not. Ten minutes.
The remaning two simply threw up their hands and said oh, fuck this shit and refused to run it.
I actually went so far as to stomp into Boss #1's office and declare that there was no way in hell I was selling NAV2005, because my conscience would not allow me to accept money in exchange for it.
I used to hate AVG and love Norton. Now it's the other way around.
