Norton
As mentioned in another forum, there is a standing joke in the computer manufacuring industry.
A competition was held with the second prize being a years free subscription to Norton Anti-Virus. The first prize was a program which enabled you to actually remove Norton AV from your computer; an accomplishment previously only attainable by a random act of God or a lightning strike!
On a serious note, I went off Norton precisely because it took too much control of my operating system. And I won't use it, even when I get it free in a utilities package that comes with a product I buy. I have too many bad memories of my experiences with it going way back to the Win98 era.
For my money Avira (free) rules. Because it's freeware, it does have nag/splash screens, but these can be removed if you want. A Google link on how to do this can be found by clicking
Disable Avira nag/splash.
These instuctions worked fine, except for the very end bit showing how to do a registry edit modification to remove the start-up splash. The suggested one didn't work and had to be changed slightly. This is a link to a forum article on how to do it.
Avira Splash.
The modification that works is shown in the 6th screen down in this post. If you can't be bothered reading the whole post, the amended registry key that works replaces "
min" on the end with "
/nosplash" & looks like this:
"C:\Program Files\Avira\AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic\avgnt.exe" /nosplash
In my original post I stated that I used AVG and Avira anti-virus programs simultaneously. I have since been advised that this is a no -no, so I have stopped using AVG.
