Originally posted here by HTRegz
Hey Hey,

Nice reponses for the most part. Except for the norton part... I'd highly suggest ditching it and going with AVG Free... personal opinion but I don't know many people that like Norton (unless they have high end machines... or have used software like eTrust in the past)... If you want to pay for your AV software than I'd suggest looking towards Trend Micro.... Norton is a known resource hog and could be part of the reason your system is slowing down.


Actually I just purchased Norton SystemWorks yesterday and installed it today. I've not noticed much of a slow-down with it - yet...

But seriously, I've used Symantec products in the past such as NAV for DOS or Windows, Norton Utilities (back when it was for DOS 5.0), Norton Commander, SystemWorks, etc... and never really had much of a problem with them. About the only one I ever DID have a problem with was the Anti-Virus for SystemWorks 2002 and 2003. But that really was minor compared to the difficulties I had without it on the system.

As for moving it... you're right that disabling services can be at times a security related task... I just felt that because you were asking in general about all of them and not specifically onces that would help to further secure your system... in other words it seemed more like a resource conservation type question... I figured it'd be best suited here

Good Luck with your config.


Peace,
HT

I guess I should have been clearer in my post about what it was I was trying to do - specifically to remove the security risks involved in having too many - or the wrong - services active.

Thanks and God Bless

Carenath