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They are resource hogging buggy pieces of &#8220;software&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>This includes Norton Personal Firewall,  Spam prevention,  or anything associated with Symantec with the sole exception of PC Anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The antivirus solution I strongly recommend is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nod32.com\">Nod 32<\/a>, for excellent protection at a minimum memory usage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today a customer called me that had purchased Norton System Works 2005 at Office Depot, and now a week later was getting error messages regarding &#8220;An unauthorized beta version&#8221; of his Symantec product. 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