Some advice pleae. Anyone using ZA Internet Suite?

[Bob Smith]

I'm trying to reduce the amount of system resources utilized with Symantec
AV 9.0 Corp & ZA Pro on my laptop. We all know how much a system resource
hog Symantic AV is. I've just kept using it as the company continues to pay
the license fee for the annual subscriptions.

My subscription to ZA Pro is about to expire and I'm going to renew it, but
was thinking of upgrading to ZA internet suite instead, and uninstalling
Symantec to free us some RAM.

Before doing so, I'd like to hear from anyone who has used Symantec AV
Corp., and has changed over to ZA internet suite to see if they were able to
recover more system resources.

TIA, Bob

PS: Before anyone asks, I also use Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D & Spyware Blaster.

[Bob Smith]

"Far Canal" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.200db354f12868cf98a099@news.readfreenews. net...
<snipped>
> Dump both Symantec & ZA. Use one of the free AVPs and a free firewall,
> like the old (v2.1.5) Kerio.
> Or buy more RAM
> Or buy a new laptop.
>
> Have you used Spybot to close all unnecessary startup programs?

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I have closed down all unnecessary start up
programs, but not through Spybot.

The original question I posted though was directed to folks using ZA IS, and
whether they noticed any signicant savings in system resources.

[myPGP.Com]

Leythos wrote:
> In article <6WMoh.9137$w91.3921@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink. net>,
> usirsclt_No_Spamola_@earthlink.net says...
>> I'm trying to reduce the amount of system resources utilized with Symantec
>> AV 9.0 Corp & ZA Pro on my laptop. We all know how much a system resource
>> hog Symantic AV is. I've just kept using it as the company continues to pay
>> the license fee for the annual subscriptions.
>
> Symantec Corporate Edition is not a resource hog, in fact, it's better
> than most. The home products are resource hogs, badly, but the corporate
> ones are almost light on resources.
>
>> My subscription to ZA Pro is about to expire and I'm going to renew it, but
>> was thinking of upgrading to ZA internet suite instead, and uninstalling
>> Symantec to free us some RAM.
>
> Keep Symantec, it's one of the best, always has been.
>
>> Before doing so, I'd like to hear from anyone who has used Symantec AV
>> Corp., and has changed over to ZA internet suite to see if they were able to
>> recover more system resources.
>
> With over 2500 systems/users protected by Symantec Corp Edition for
> Workstations and Servers we've never had a compromised client machine
> under our control. I use it in my home and office myself.
>
>
Get rid of both. Use mozilla firefox and thunderbird.

Grab some add-ons after you migrate.

www.mypgp.com/mozilla.html

at least that's what I use...

-sean

www.claimID.Com/pgp
http://heeger.mulitply.com

[Bob Smith]

"Leythos" <void@nowhere.lan> wrote in message
news:MPG.200d876c6b34bb3989770@adfree.Usenet.com.. .
> In article <6WMoh.9137$w91.3921@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink. net>,
> usirsclt_No_Spamola_@earthlink.net says...
>> I'm trying to reduce the amount of system resources utilized with
>> Symantec
>> AV 9.0 Corp & ZA Pro on my laptop. We all know how much a system resource
>> hog Symantic AV is. I've just kept using it as the company continues to
>> pay
>> the license fee for the annual subscriptions.
>
> Symantec Corporate Edition is not a resource hog, in fact, it's better
> than most. The home products are resource hogs, badly, but the corporate
> ones are almost light on resources.
>
>> My subscription to ZA Pro is about to expire and I'm going to renew it,
>> but
>> was thinking of upgrading to ZA internet suite instead, and uninstalling
>> Symantec to free us some RAM.
>
> Keep Symantec, it's one of the best, always has been.
>
>> Before doing so, I'd like to hear from anyone who has used Symantec AV
>> Corp., and has changed over to ZA internet suite to see if they were able
>> to
>> recover more system resources.
>
> With over 2500 systems/users protected by Symantec Corp Edition for
> Workstations and Servers we've never had a compromised client machine
> under our control. I use it in my home and office myself.

Thanks for all the replies. Too bad no one piped in who uses ZAIS. Since I
still have the installation disk for Symantec AV 9.0, I decided to check out
ZA IS, and uninstall Symantic AV. After doing a defrag (I always do a defrag
after an uninstall or a new installation), I found that my system is faster,
and uses less system resources with ZAIS. Only thing detrimental with ZA's
AV, is the scanning, as it takes forever on the first scan, not like that's
a big thing when it's scheduled for the middle of the night when I'm not
using the computer.

I've been happy with Symantec AV in the past, but for yours truly, it was a
system hog, and I'm going to stick with ZA IS till I find it's hogging
resources.