Norton products have a reputation for being resource hungry. There are a lot of cheap / free and resource friendly applications that can fully replace most Norton applications.

A lot of computers and notebooks ship with (trial) versions of Symantec or Norton products as well. use the following tools to uninstall them:
Norton Removal Tool for Windows 2000 / XP / Vista
Norton Removal Tool Windows 98 / Me

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