Bitdefender Internet Security vs. Norton Internet Security

I've had problems with my system after Norton patches that require a restart and Windows 10 Updates that require a restart. When a restart is required after one of these two types of updates the system will somtimes display the Windows logo and then the logo would go away and all I would see is a black screen with a rotating circle of white dots and that's where the system would hang. Sometimes I would have to press the power button and restart the laptop several times before it would get past the black screen and the circle of rotating dots. In addition I've had to uninstall and reinstall Norton 2 times on this laptop on recent months. The first time Windows 10 said the version of Norton I had installed was incompatible with Windows 10. The last time I had to reinstall was a week ago after a patch where Control Panel said that Norton was installed but I had no icons and no record of the app in the system tray or in the applications list when you pressed the start button.. After the most recent uninstall/reinstall things seemed to stabilized but startups were still sluggish. I posted a query about this condition on another forum and the response that I received led me to believe that all of the issues I was having was due to Norton as this person has the same issues and resolved them by removing Norton. Today, just for grins, I again uninstalled Norton on my laptop and installed the 30 day trial of Bitdefender and at this point I'm not sure if it's wishful thinking or reality but it seems that my startups are no longer sluggish and overall system performance seems better. This is one reason why I want to know what others are seeing regarding the difference between Bitdefender and Norton in terms of performance. If it is true that my system is not as sluggish as before and Bitdefender performs equally as well as Norton for Virus preventions, anti-spam, anti-malware, and keeping my inbox clean I might make the switch permanent and also replace Norton on my desktop PC that does not seem to have the problems my laptop is having

ChrisJordan said:

I've had problems with my system after Norton patches that require a restart and Windows 10 Updates that require a restart. When a restart is required after one of these two types of updates the system will somtimes display the Windows logo and then the logo would go away and all I would see is a black screen with a rotating circle of white dots and that's where the system would hang.

My question to you is whether you have a Logitech wireless mouse connected to your system via a USB receiver? My laptop has a similar issue and what myself and other suspect is that there is some sort of security check of the USB ports after certain restarts that expects a response. Unfortunately, the USB mouse receiver cannot provide the needed reply and the software making the request just keeps making the request that will never come. What we've had to resort to is removing the USB receiver when the system posts and then reinserting it once the logo disappears and the second set of rotating dots appears. After we began this method we've never had a problem since. This may not be your issue but I'm using Norton on both my desktop and laptop and I'm experiencing no problems.

Hello,I use Bitdefender TS and I have not been careful, and still, I have no Malware/virus on my system, I use it alongside Voodoo-Shield Pro & HitmanPro as an on-demand scanner.
I have only 4GB DDR4 RAM,2.8GHZ & 128 SSD.
What I wanted to say is that Bitdefender has a very light footprint IMO.