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Strange PC Performance
On Nov 24, 8:41 am, "~misfit~" wrote:
Somewhere on teh interweb Roy typed: On Nov 23, 6:58 am, "~misfit~" wrote: Hoping somebody can enlighten about the peculiarity of this PC TIA Do you have Norton antivirus or internet security installed? Yeah I have installed Norton Internet Security and its regularly scanning my PC for Malware. Get rid of it. That's probably most of your problem right there. -- TTFN, Shaun. have been using Norton for more than three years and so far I have no problems with these software since,therefore I can blame it for the current peculiarity.... |
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On Nov 24, 8:00 am, kony wrote:
If it only freezes momentarily, why are you shutting down then restarting? You aren't being clear about exactly what is happening. Actually when the peculiarity happens it freezes for a long time that every opened application just hangs.....So I had to shut it down with the power button. |
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have been using Norton for more than three years and so far I have no
problems with these software since,therefore I can blame it for the current peculiarity.... Norton is crap... It's been getting worse from year to year. Do yourself a BIG favor and remove it. Try AVG or Avast for an anti-virus. |
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On Nov 24, 6:48 pm, "Noozer" wrote:
have been using Norton for more than three years and so far I have no problems with these software since,therefore I can blame it for the current peculiarity.... Norton is crap... It's been getting worse from year to year. Do yourself a BIG favor and remove it. Try AVG or Avast for an anti-virus. I am not sure if you are just too biased against Norton but if I never had problems with it for a long time therefore why should I change drastically....I don't agree either that is getting worser,.... Could you enumerate the complete fault of this anti malware program based on your experience and well see if I can find something familiar with it? |
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Strange PC Performance
Somewhere on teh interweb Roy typed:
On Nov 24, 6:48 pm, "Noozer" wrote: have been using Norton for more than three years and so far I have no problems with these software since,therefore I can blame it for the current peculiarity.... Norton is crap... It's been getting worse from year to year. Do yourself a BIG favor and remove it. Try AVG or Avast for an anti-virus. I am not sure if you are just too biased against Norton but if I never had problems with it for a long time My uncle didn't have any [problems with his heart until his infarction either. therefore why should I change drastically....I don't agree either that is getting worser,.... You could have asked my uncle the day before his heart attack how he was and he would have said the same. Could you enumerate the complete fault of this anti malware program based on your experience and well see if I can find something familiar with it? Now that's just arrogant and combative. I find it absolutely pointless to try to troubleshoot performance issues when a dog of a program like Nortons is running. I've know it to render otherwise fine computers useless. You seem to have an attitude that precludes any further input, at least from me. Nortons auto-updates, did you see a previous post saying that a recent update had caused problems for a poster? Hint; If you're asking for help it pays to leave the attitude at the door. -- TTFN, Shaun. |
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Strange PC Performance
On Nov 25, 7:16 am, "~misfit~" wrote:
Somewhere on teh interweb Roy typed: On Nov 24, 6:48 pm, "Noozer" wrote: have been using Norton for more than three years and so far I have no problems with these software since,therefore I can blame it for the current peculiarity.... Norton is crap... It's been getting worse from year to year. Do yourself a BIG favor and remove it. Try AVG or Avast for an anti-virus. I am not sure if you are just too biased against Norton but if I never had problems with it for a long time My uncle didn't have any [problems with his heart until his infarction either. therefore why should I change drastically....I don't agree either that is getting worser,.... You could have asked my uncle the day before his heart attack how he was and he would have said the same. Could you enumerate the complete fault of this anti malware program based on your experience and well see if I can find something familiar with it? Now that's just arrogant and combative. I find it absolutely pointless to try to troubleshoot performance issues when a dog of a program like Nortons is running. I've know it to render otherwise fine computers useless. You seem to have an attitude that precludes any further input, at least from me. Nortons auto-updates, did you see a previous post saying that a recent update had caused problems for a poster? Hint; If you're asking for help it pays to leave the attitude at the door. -- TTFN, Shaun. Shaun You are getting funny....LOL I can't understand how heart disease and anti virus are related.... Do the share the same peculiarity in terms of behavior...? I never had any issue with Symantec so far so in fairness for my more than three years of use ;unless you could give me more details then maybe that can change my mind about that program. Look there are hordes of users of Norton Internet Security 2007 in my vicinity I have not heard any complaint from them also but as they are not techies they can't help me with my problem. I posted my question here in this group hoping that the people will analyze the problem clinically and not emotionally. Onion skin sensitivity has no place for people that are supposed to be figuratively ' hardwired,computer professional . If you are a true IT professional be please be clinical in your approach to the issue and set aside your feminine emotions...omigosh( please forgive me) I am starting to think that you are a queer eye..huh? |
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On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:23:04 -0800 (PST), Roy
wrote: On Nov 25, 7:16 am, "~misfit~" wrote: Somewhere on teh interweb Roy typed: Do yourself a BIG favor and remove it. Try AVG or Avast for an anti-virus. I am not sure if you are just too biased against Norton but if I never had problems with it for a long time Look there are hordes of users of Norton Internet Security 2007 in my vicinity I have not heard any complaint from them also but as they are not techies they can't help me with my problem. I posted my question here in this group hoping that the people will analyze the problem clinically and not emotionally. Look at it this way: "Something" about your system is different than everyone else's that does not exhibit this problem. Only you can see the entirety of the hardware and software configuration. We can only go by the details you provide and one of those is about a software suite known to be more than a little invasive of the OS. It may be that 95% percent of the time the Norton software is just a bloated excessive overhead on the system, but what if that other 5% of the time it's even worse than that, considering that no software is entirely bug-free? The main point is, you're going to have to reduce the variables to pinpoint the problem and how hard is it really to uninstall something and reboot? It may not be the problem but if it were and you just offhandedly reject the idea, you might never find the cause. Obviously the problem is something you don't suspect is a problem or the problem would not exist? The real question is what has changed on the system just prior to the problem, and that you should undo those changes and incrementally add them back one at a time until the problem is found. Unfortunately it is not so simple because some software like Norton's, or WIndows itself, is also updating itself so selectively preventing them from updating themselves, or not using them at all for a period, is a fairly reasonable approach to isolating the problem. If all else fails you could just do a separate testbed installation of windows and not install anything, no updates yet... and see if it also has the problem. If you have made a backup prior to the point where the problem occurred you might just restore that instead and then beware of the changes that had occurred since then. |
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Roy wrote:
Now my question a 1) how come that during the start the CPU is already running at 60% capacity when I am just opening the internet? 2) The PC tends to hang occasionally for no reason and I could not think that this could be a malware as it had a good internet security software installed 3) When It hangs and I want to open the task manager by right clicking from the bottom so I had to shut it down by pressing the button; but when I re start the said computer it just don't say that the computer was shut down improperly so it will do desk checking; UNFORTUNATELY IT WILL JUST OPEN NORMALLY . 4) Often the CPU is shown in the performance as100% capacity when I am just using internet in multiple windows from some office apps. 5) Ot takes long time to boot up when the start up programs are only few. When this computer ; what I mean is the complete boot up time takes at least 3 minutes when the listed bootup was supposed to be only 30 seconds?( I am not sure but this is what is listed in boot,ini. Some of your symptoms suggest a software problem. Using the Task Manager, you'll either see some program using cycles, or the kernel is using cycles. Assuming the kernel blocks, waiting for hardware to respond, it is possible for a momentary system freeze to be an issue between the kernel and a piece of hardware. For example, in Win98, I noticed a networking problem could bring the system to a stop. If the OS is making 50 tries to read a bad sector on a hard drive, that might be a reason for a temporary freeze. Antivirus software is very invasive. To give an example, my antivirus program seems to have replaced the Idle loop with its own. The HLT instruction is no longer being used to save power when the system is idle. I consider that to be invasive, and a waste of electricity when multiplied over millions of machines. And to top it off, not all antivirus software can be cleanly removed from a system, which means doing differential analysis with and without the antivirus product in place is impossible. This is one reason some people will not have kind words for an antivirus product. In terms of debugging capabilities, some OSes have more tools available for observing what they are doing, than others. Without at least some tools, all you can do is remove stuff and retest, or nuke the install and start all over again. If you want some tools that can inspect the system, try sysinternals.com (now owned by Microsoft). There are tools there for doing the same kinds of things the Task Manager does. To rule out hardware, you can always temporarily boot an alternate OS. Examples are Ubuntu or Knoppix. Or connect a clean hard drive, install Windows on the clean hard drive, and see whether the problem still exists when a minimum of software is present. A visit to a site like Castlecops, usage of HijackThis, can get you some comments from malware fighters. (You post your HijackThis log and they tell you whether you're infected or not.) They may be able to tell you whether there is anything suspicious or not. I use Kaspersky on my system, and I can tell you I've had a hard lock (reset button), while mixing Sysinternals tools with the antivirus active. (I think I was trying to use a file monitoring tool at the time.) I know the antivirus software can lock the system up, if it thinks an invasion is happening, even when the tools are analytical ones. Paul |
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Somewhere on teh interweb Roy typed:
On Nov 25, 7:16 am, "~misfit~" wrote: Somewhere on teh interweb Roy typed: On Nov 24, 6:48 pm, "Noozer" wrote: have been using Norton for more than three years and so far I have no problems with these software since,therefore I can blame it for the current peculiarity.... Norton is crap... It's been getting worse from year to year. Do yourself a BIG favor and remove it. Try AVG or Avast for an anti-virus. I am not sure if you are just too biased against Norton but if I never had problems with it for a long time My uncle didn't have any [problems with his heart until his infarction either. therefore why should I change drastically....I don't agree either that is getting worser,.... You could have asked my uncle the day before his heart attack how he was and he would have said the same. Could you enumerate the complete fault of this anti malware program based on your experience and well see if I can find something familiar with it? Now that's just arrogant and combative. I find it absolutely pointless to try to troubleshoot performance issues when a dog of a program like Nortons is running. I've know it to render otherwise fine computers useless. You seem to have an attitude that precludes any further input, at least from me. Nortons auto-updates, did you see a previous post saying that a recent update had caused problems for a poster? Hint; If you're asking for help it pays to leave the attitude at the door. -- TTFN, Shaun. Shaun You are getting funny....LOL Getting? I've always been funny. I see folks I haven't seen since high-school and often the first thing they say is "Tell me some jokes, you must have learned plenty of new ones." I can't understand how heart disease and anti virus are related.... I can see that. Analogies are wasted on you. Do the share the same peculiarity in terms of behavior...? Oh, most certainly. As I write, so I act. I am exactly as you read me. I never had any issue with Symantec so far so in fairness for my more than three years of use ;unless you could give me more details then maybe that can change my mind about that program. And my uncle never had any issues with his heart (that he knew about) right up until it put him in hospital. (Are you getting it yet? I doubt it but, hey, gotta try.) Look there are hordes of users of Norton Internet Security 2007 in my vicinity The correct term for a group of sheep is "flock", not "horde". I have not heard any complaint from them also but as they are not techies they can't help me with my problem. You make my case for me. I posted my question here in this group hoping that the people will analyze the problem clinically and not emotionally. Believe me, emotion has nothing to do with it. I speak from extensive experience with "users" and that piece of bloatware called Norton Internet Security. Software so bad that the only way they can get people to use it is to bundle it with new machines with a "free" period and hope that the "user" is naive enough to renew it when the scary nag screens start appearing. It's a product aimed at and sold to people with no knowledge of software or computers. Joe Public. This flock of users in your vicinity, you know, the ones who aren't "techies", would that be how they acquired their Norton's software? Because, believe me when I tell you, anyone who knows anything about computers knows to keep well away from Nortons products. I get called out to troublshoot a lot of computers, some bog-slow, others stalling and, if said machine is running Nortons the first thing I do is remove it. Often it's the last thing I do as well, other than install AVG free antivirus and a free firewall. In more than 50% of the cases simply removng Nortons, giving the computer a 'clean' and adding a less invasive AV program is enough to return the computer to it's previous glory. Onion skin sensitivity has no place for people that are supposed to be figuratively ' hardwired,computer professional . If you are a true IT professional be please be clinical in your approach to the issue and set aside your feminine emotions...omigosh( please forgive me) I am starting to think that you are a queer eye..huh? An amazing insight there Roy. So you've studied people who work with computers and have reason to make such a sweeping statement? You're saying that it takes a cetain type of person to work in this field? A thick-skinned, insensitive, testosterone-fueled heterosexual? That is offensive on so many levels. My sexuality has nothing to do with the problem you're having with your computer, for some reason you're so insecure (incidently a known side-effect of using Nortons software) that you resort to ad-hominem attacks on someone trying to help you. Someone attempting to save you the $80/hour that you'd likely have to pay someone in the "real world" to fix it for you. To use your term; "You are getting funny", (and I *don't* mean amusing). I will no longer offer you my advice after this post. I will merely point you to the replies of the other regulars here which also mention that not only is your problem most likely software-related (making it off-topic for this group) but they too would take Nortons out of the picture before further analysis. However, Norton's marketing is such that they convince their naive and susceptible users into thinking that they can't do without it. Therefore I understand why you are so reluctant to remove it, you are a good little spoon-fed consumer. Advertisers just love sheeple like you who swallow the whole fishing rod, to the extent of ignoring informed advice. Question; As you seem to know so much about computer/IT professionals, how many of them use Nortons? Good luck with your problems. Oh, and good luck with your computer too. -- Shaun. |
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On Nov 26, 6:24 am, "~misfit~" wrote:
Somewhere on teh interweb Roy typed: On Nov 25, 7:16 am, "~misfit~" wrote: Somewhere on teh interweb Roy typed: On Nov 24, 6:48 pm, "Noozer" wrote: have been using Norton for more than three years and so far I have no problems with these software since,therefore I can blame it for the current peculiarity.... Norton is crap... It's been getting worse from year to year. Do yourself a BIG favor and remove it. Try AVG or Avast for an anti-virus. I am not sure if you are just too biased against Norton but if I never had problems with it for a long time My uncle didn't have any [problems with his heart until his infarction either. therefore why should I change drastically....I don't agree either that is getting worser,.... You could have asked my uncle the day before his heart attack how he was and he would have said the same. Could you enumerate the complete fault of this anti malware program based on your experience and well see if I can find something familiar with it? Now that's just arrogant and combative. I find it absolutely pointless to try to troubleshoot performance issues when a dog of a program like Nortons is running. I've know it to render otherwise fine computers useless. You seem to have an attitude that precludes any further input, at least from me. Nortons auto-updates, did you see a previous post saying that a recent update had caused problems for a poster? Hint; If you're asking for help it pays to leave the attitude at the door. -- TTFN, Shaun. Shaun You are getting funny....LOL Getting? I've always been funny. I see folks I haven't seen since high-school and often the first thing they say is "Tell me some jokes, you must have learned plenty of new ones." I can't understand how heart disease and anti virus are related.... I can see that. Analogies are wasted on you. Do the share the same peculiarity in terms of behavior...? Oh, most certainly. As I write, so I act. I am exactly as you read me. I never had any issue with Symantec so far so in fairness for my more than three years of use ;unless you could give me more details then maybe that can change my mind about that program. And my uncle never had any issues with his heart (that he knew about) right up until it put him in hospital. (Are you getting it yet? I doubt it but, hey, gotta try.) Look there are hordes of users of Norton Internet Security 2007 in my vicinity The correct term for a group of sheep is "flock", not "horde". I have not heard any complaint from them also but as they are not techies they can't help me with my problem. You make my case for me. I posted my question here in this group hoping that the people will analyze the problem clinically and not emotionally. Believe me, emotion has nothing to do with it. I speak from extensive experience with "users" and that piece of bloatware called Norton Internet Security. Software so bad that the only way they can get people to use it is to bundle it with new machines with a "free" period and hope that the "user" is naive enough to renew it when the scary nag screens start appearing. It's a product aimed at and sold to people with no knowledge of software or computers. Joe Public. This flock of users in your vicinity, you know, the ones who aren't "techies", would that be how they acquired their Norton's software? Because, believe me when I tell you, anyone who knows anything about computers knows to keep well away from Nortons products. I get called out to troublshoot a lot of computers, some bog-slow, others stalling and, if said machine is running Nortons the first thing I do is remove it. Often it's the last thing I do as well, other than install AVG free antivirus and a free firewall. In more than 50% of the cases simply removng Nortons, giving the computer a 'clean' and adding a less invasive AV program is enough to return the computer to it's previous glory. Onion skin sensitivity has no place for people that are supposed to be figuratively ' hardwired,computer professional . If you are a true IT professional be please be clinical in your approach to the issue and set aside your feminine emotions...omigosh( please forgive me) I am starting to think that you are a queer eye..huh? An amazing insight there Roy. So you've studied people who work with computers and have reason to make such a sweeping statement? You're saying that it takes a cetain type of person to work in this field? A thick-skinned, insensitive, testosterone-fueled heterosexual? That is offensive on so many levels. My sexuality has nothing to do with the problem you're having with your computer, for some reason you're so insecure (incidently a known side-effect of using Nortons software) that you resort to ad-hominem attacks on someone trying to help you. Someone attempting to save you the $80/hour that you'd likely have to pay someone in the "real world" to fix it for you. To use your term; "You are getting funny", (and I *don't* mean amusing). I will no longer offer you my advice after this post. I will merely point you to the replies of the other regulars here which also mention that not only is your problem most likely software-related (making it off-topic for this group) but they too would take Nortons out of the picture before further analysis. However, Norton's marketing is such that they convince their naive and susceptible users into thinking that they can't do without it. Therefore I understand why you are so reluctant to remove it, you are a good little spoon-fed consumer. Advertisers just love sheeple like you who swallow the whole fishing rod, to the extent of ignoring informed advice. Question; As you seem to know so much about computer/IT professionals, how many of them use Nortons? Good luck with your problems. Oh, and good luck with your computer too. -- Shaun.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Shaun I suggest that you have to find a more rewarding career....be part of the group that do make overs in the show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy...A computer Techie like you would be a valuable asset as lots of this computer nerds are guy actually. Having a femine side would be advantageous giving these nerds valuabe advice in being computer metrosexuals! I wish you luck in show business Shaun.... Roy |
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