Fuck Norton

My mom spazzed and upgraded to Norton Internet Security against my recommendation. Now, more than 3 times out of 4, her web browser will completely freeze if a page with PayPal code is accessed. That includes these message boards. The only way to kill the browser is through Task Manager, followed by killing the dumpreport since it seems to hang as well. So now I have to routinely search for all .hdmp and .mdmp files on her computer because they're adding up to a lot of wasted space (the hard drive literally dropped to 53MB free). I looked online, and apparently there are quite a few people having issues with Norton fucking up people's browsers when PayPal is somewhere on a website. Norton refuses to address the issue, or even respond to people. I have to fucking disable the firewall. What's the point of security if it prevents functionality?

Norton is shit.

tamaelia 17 years ago
Dont start me... trend is pissing me off atm. Why do they have to break things? *sigh*
katlienc 17 years ago
Does that issue happen with all browsers? Have you tried Firefox or Safari. That is crazy that all that crap is cluttering up her hard drive.
Vishanti 17 years ago
She has to use IE because she is a web developer for a hospital that uses IE as its standard browser. Lots of in-house apps just won't work with anything else, and their VPN setup is browser-based.
Vishanti 16 years ago
omfg. norton quietly fixed it with an update a few weeks ago. this last week's update? REFUCKED IT.
Kelefane 16 years ago
Destroy Norton off that pc.

Fuck Norton. Its the AOL of spyware/virus programs.