Norton 360 - resource usage?

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I'm considering Norton 360 V2 and wondering if it is light on resource usage, like NIS 2009?

And are upgrades to newer versions free (with valid subscription) like on NIS?

 

Thanks

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I'm considering Norton 360 V2 and wondering if it is light on resource usage, like NIS 2009?

And are upgrades to newer versions free (with valid subscription) like on NIS?

 

Thanks

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N360 v2 is light on my P4. The only thing you may not like is LiveUpdate. There is a slightly noticible amount of lag during intensive tasks when LiveUpdate starts, for whatever reason.

 

NIS09 had almost zero impact and is leaner; less redundancies and faster. Also, it bumps up detection by almost 1 percent compared to the 08 engine used by N360. 1 percent of 1.1 million malware samples....that leaves ~100k samples undetected. Additionally, a unreleased beta of the NIS09 engine, tested in May, detected ~41% of malware with 1 mo. old signitures, compared to 18% by the 08 engine. 

Message Edited by Tech0utsider on 10-28-2008 07:01 PM
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OK thanks for the information.