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« on: February 26, 2006, 12:08:46 PM »

I have recently up-graded my system to 1Mb broadband and, at the same time, installed Norton Internet Security and Norton Anti Virus packages. Since introduction of the Norton packages I have had increasing difficulty doing the speed tests within the testmy broadband site.

Upload tests no problem with the results being posted to my stats file.

Download testing, it would appear can be only achieved by using the "flatbed file" and, whilst test speeds are looking good they are not reported to the stats file - "No tests taken" on the days in question.

Any advice in this connection would be appreciated.


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« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2006, 01:24:55 PM »

If you are using the computer for personal or at home, get rid of Norton. I personally use various softwares on my computers for security. Firewall is the free version of Zonealarm. Anti virus is covered by AVG, again free and it has a built-in email scanner. Since 1996, I have tried various Symantec products and always found them to be too aggresive for network and file activity monitoring. Keep it simple and try other products that are specialized for what you are trying to do. I never rely on an all-in-one package for internet security. There are more virii, trojans and spywares being produced every day. I monitor my firewall and anti virus on a regular basis to make sure I am not wide open to the net or prone to a virus I may have downloaded within some file.
Symantec is geared more towards business computing and therefore heavily armored. This requires more resources. That is my opinion.


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« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2006, 01:45:59 PM »

Thanks Max for your advices. Having spent £100 plus on the Norton packages I am disinclined to act upon your suggestion.

Speed tests are being undertaken and results are what I expected. The only problem being that D/L Test results are not being saved within member stats.

Something that I can live with but..... thought that it was a failing in the testmy.net system.

Thanks anyways


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« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2006, 01:59:09 PM »

Google this: norton suite problems
This is one of the results:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002UCSKI/103-1860105-3867817
See the reviews at the bottom.
I may be wrong, but there may be ways to setup Norton to make it more friendly towards requests coming from the internet. This may allow it then to update the stats file. Like I said, I have only rarely used these programs but I know there are others out there that can answer your post. If you dig deep enough, I hope you get the results you are looking for.


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« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2006, 04:41:44 PM »

Quote from: gee-gee on February 26, 2006, 01:45:59 PM

If you will notice in this forum that Norton has let a lot of people down. I personally had purchased my second norton and had been using it for awhile again and it started acting up again. It would "let" a virus get past it and not allow updates. Not wanting to do a total recovery "AGAIN"(many times before), I started researching. AVG Free was the answer for me. AVG removed the trogan and I have not ever been sorry since. I still have C.D. in desk with time left on it. Just a reminder that FREE does not mean bad. And that PAID does mean good. AVAST is also another good freeware AV. Test have shown that the two best freeware Anti-virus are AVG Free and AVAST. Hands down. And I don't mean just here. And I don't just mean me either.
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« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2006, 04:47:15 PM »

getting something other than norton would be so much better of a choice - i mean, even free anti virus programs and firewalls work great - norton has too many compatibility issues, you run it while you run some other program and all hell breaks loose....


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« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2006, 08:01:23 PM »

When your subscription for Norton comes to an end, you may want to consider the findings in this link:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/free-vs-paid-av.htm


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« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2006, 09:06:56 PM »

In fact try this test and see if does not work. Then make up your mind. Download and switch from norton to AVG Free just to try it. If it works for you, why would you care if you just put it in desk. If it does not meet your expections, you are not out any money. Just reload norton. If you feel better paying for it they have an AVG you can pay for and get a few more bells and whistles. Either way "FREE" to try or use!
Don't forget to go off line and remove norton first.

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5

Also try it in safe mode with networking, it will pull out more.


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Re: Test Results

« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2006, 10:48:25 AM »

If you are unable to run the download test with Norton's running, try this version of the test: http://www.testmy.net/d_load.php?ni=1&tt=1&s=97&st=st&ta=&top=&nobar=1


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« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2006, 12:52:37 PM »

Quote from: FallowEarth on February 27, 2006, 10:48:25 AM

If you are unable to run the download test with Norton's running, try this version of the test: http://www.testmy.net/d_load.php?ni=1&tt=1&s=97&st=st&ta=&top=&nobar=1

Thank you for your advice. The avenue to do a d/l test as suggested above did not work.

Normal testing on upload is OK and being reported to member stats. Testing on d/l, with Norton enabled can only be done on "flatbed file" basis and, whilst results were given they were not registering within member stats.

I have adopted a simple solution ........ disable Norton for the 60 seconds or so that it takes to do the test, normal service is resumed with test results registered, and enable Norton thereafter.

Thanks to all those who offered their advice.

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Re: Test Results

« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2006, 02:40:25 PM »

Try the alternate download speed test laid out here: http://www.testmy.net/forum/t-12193


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