Ok, I’ve had it with the hurry up and wait that is caused by several sloppy programs on my computer. Yeah, I have programs that are resource hogs. It’s a fact. But, they aren’t all going to survive my fall housekeeping spree. There are some that are cool enough that I may tolerate the inconvenience, but others will be replaced by better performing and better behaved models.

One that’s destined to go (with several months still left on the product before the renewal date) is Norton AntiVirus. I’ve had it with waiting for forever to launch my computer, I’ve had it with watching my system resources make like molasses in January — slow and thick and sticky as heck.

Since I’m probably not the only one that feels this way, I did a bit of research for my readers to show you some of the results of tests and to give you a bit of information from feedback offered by other users of alternative antivirus programs and protections. (more…)