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October 7, 2006
Norton Anti-Virus Sucks
Since purchasing Dawnise's Notebook a little over a year ago, we'd been fighting an on-and-off battle with it not reliably resuming from suspend. Google revealed nothing, Dell tech support was useless, and we had just basically decided that suspend/resume was beyond it's capacity.
On it's one year anniversary, the included Norton Anti-Virus subscription expired. I uninstalled it and replaced it with AVG's free personal anti-virus offering, and suddenly, lo-and-behold, the machine has a near-perfect track record for resuming from suspend.
Conclusion: NAV sucks.
Posted by dberger at October 7, 2006 3:02 PM
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Similar problems with my T42, although sleep was broken pre-NAV. (I was using Sophos at the time.) Just bought a T60 and installed Norton Security Center and its been perfectly happy with sleep.
Me thinks sleep and NAV are independant variables.
Then again, I can say "Windows 4Ever" with a straight face.
Posted by: Steve S. at October 12, 2006 9:24 PM