Unmaintained End-of-Life announcement for Norton Power Eraser
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any background resource usage or any noticable slowdowns by having this enabled vs not enabled? I mean background usage when it's not scanning, just waiting to be caled.
Identical question to above: what's it's resource usage when not in real-time and does it affect performance even though "it should not access files"?
They are not integrating it into anything; the cloud that the tool was based off is going offline and they are moving onto their singular threat intelligence feed. They just didn't see the cost of supporting another threat intelligence feed going into a free tool .
I wonder if they will pull the browser extension too for those who don't use their products? Unless it is their interests at the moment not too for telemetry etc?
I was just being dramaticI had no idea you were so fond of NPE, I'm shocked now.
But yeah, I really liked NPE. It was the best second-opinion scanner for me, and the only one I would use every few months.
Not sure, but I won't be running a back up scan as frequently as I used to. I'm not a download and run (trial) multiple apps, or surfing the whole WWW type, like others who then may need to do that more often.
why would they? IT just helps them identify potential new users and employ your browsing data to feed you personalized ads. It's a win win
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My Father noted that Norton was about the first to release a DOS version of an on-demand scanner way, way back when (and any definition updates were FTP downloads). A true end of an era...
Amazing how things evolve only to go backwards at one point.
This product-driven approach was the reason Gary Hendrix as a CEO didnāt work in the modern era.
Sad to see Gen Digital reigniting the same product centric approach.
It wasnāt even a product that was subjected to frequent updates. Norton Power Eraser retained the same UI for more than 10 years.
They are discontinuing it because the audience it targeted wasnāt really the audience that is prone to upsells.
Very sad indeed.
This product-driven approach was the reason Gary Hendrix as a CEO didnāt work in the modern era.
Sad to see Gen Digital reigniting the same product centric approach.
It wasnāt even a product that was subjected to frequent updates. Norton Power Eraser retained the same UI for more than 10 years.
They are discontinuing it because the audience it targeted wasnāt really the audience that is prone to upsells.
Very sad indeed.
3 remaining top tier products that haven't been "Blackrocked" Eset, Kaspersky, and Bitdefender.
NPE is part of the past now.
People move on and so are the malware.
Lots of alternative options left.
People move on and so are the malware.
Lots of alternative options left.
LOL HitmanPro & Malwarebytes are pretty
at protection/detecting malware. KVRT is solid though.
As a fellow 80s kid raised on Norton Utilities and the colorful text UI of Central Point Anti-Virus (CPAV), reading "end of an era" hits right in the lower back. We like to say 80s kids never really grow up, but mentioning FTP definition updates instantly triggers the dial up sounds of my US Robotics 56K V.90 modem screeching to life.
There was a unique kind of tension back then staring at a primitive text progress bar, watching those red external LEDs flash, and praying nobody picked up the kitchen landline before your virus definition download completed.
I recall having F-PROT on DOS pc and putting files on floppy and scanning them in DOS and of course updating av definitions the same way.
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