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To: Magnatizer who wrote (9949)	6/2/2000 11:51:00 AM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110642

i suggest that if you begin to look at nortons software as a liability rather than an asset, the two places to look are crashguard and antivirus. of the two, cg is far from being vital. but it doesn't have to be uninstalled. just disabled. that's the way i keep it on my machine. reason being, for all the people who are quick to point out that it caused crashiness on their machines, i'm sure that there are an equal or greater amount who do not have that trouble. granted, there must also be a segment of the user population who are a) having problems and, b) don't know it's being caused by cg. i personally have not run it for several months. i'm doing fine without it. some of us here have touched on the subject recently of trying the cg component with the newer systemworks2000. i concur. when i finally upgrade from version2.0, i look forward to leaving cg intact to see if there's a difference. i just find it hard to accept that an industry leader like symantec would allow problematic components to go unrepaired. perhaps i should add the words for too long to that last sentence. <g3> and if you absolutely must turn off av, again, do not uninstall. just turn off the monitoring. that way you can keep your definitions current and still scan. from what you've described, it sounds as if you'd only be turning av off at night. make sense?