Norton Utilities and the like

[fizzak]

Any need to have Norton on OSX these days? Any suggestions for a decent util to clear issues and optimize performance?

 

[ObviousTroll]

There is no "Norton Utilities" for Mac and Norton AV causes more problems than it solves.

Tech Tool Pro will do what you need.

 

[jimoblak]

There was Norton Utilities for OSX but as a sign for its usefulness, it is no longer marketed (as far as I know).

I have a CD buried here somewhere.

 

[macmend]

Techtool pro is good I also like alsoft.com's Diskwarrior, but with OS X it is worth learning a little unix terminal in order to do some maintenance yourself, but if you are a little worried about going into terminal, using utilities such as OnyX, Tinkertool, or maintain1 will help all of these can be found at macupdate.com

more answers can be found at:

http://www.macmend.com

 

[Zelandakh]

Techtool Pro is marvellous at doing some of the things Norton used to do before it got "Symantec'd".

fsck resolves most problems at a command line prompt in a manner similar to the old b tree leaf problems of OS8/9.