Death to Norton Systemworks Pt. 1

I run over the secondmost crap piece of software in the world after Windows...

...with a steamroller.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Norton
• Systemworks
• Steamroller

[crypticcoach]

I've been using Symantec/Norton products for over 10 years with absolutely no problems. It works perfectly. I have always turned people around to loving it when they said it was crap. Most people just install it and then don't configure it or update it. Then when it doesn't work like they want they say it's the softwares fault. Maybe you just happen to have had a bad experience is all.

[echothreezero]

Actually, I don't like it because it is resource hungry, is expensive compared to some of the alternatives. Alternatives run in the background more quietly.

For the first 5-6 years of owning a PC I ran nothing but Norton products, but like many successful software titles, it grew into a behemoth. Once the free subscription ran out I tried to sell it on ebay for $1 - no bids, so then I tried to give it away for free on a computing forum - no takers. No-one wanted it for love or money.

[Captain1soapy1dick]

Cool video, I crushed a sega master system with an Ingersoll rand SD-100F. Only problem was it's a pad foot so I had to get pattern just right

[crypticcoach]

It only runs that much resources when its performing a scan or running a tool.

[crypticcoach]

Like I said you just happen to have a bad experience. I have people asking me for Norton all the time. It's not resource hungry at all. Again people typically just install it and accept the defaults of the configuration. So it's running background scans like the NOBPB.exe scan disk a lot. Or people set it to scan every hour etc. I have Systemworks Premier 2007 installed on all 16 of my computers and not resource hungry. It runs 5% to 10% resources.

[alexandgruntz]

What was the disc like?

[beeswax34]

How much to do this to every piece of Norton software? Great Video!

[takamine]

Hahahaha classic!