When 100% is not enough
Sometimes your software apps need just a little bit more juice to get the job done. Note the spontaneous overclocking Norton manages on the CPU meter with this antivirus update.
Thanks to Roger Curl for the pic.
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Comments
What Norton fails to explain is that they're using 65% of the 75% the CPU usage.
So they really using 87% of current processing allocation.
But 87% of 75% would look really stupider.
Posted by: Phil | November 23, 2009 1:54 PM
i'm confused... wouldn't saying the system is using 70% of the cpu and then saying norton is using 65% of the cpu mean that the cpu is @ 70% usage, and only 5 % of that is NOT norton?
2 separate measures of the same thing. just 'system' is inclusive of 'norton'
Posted by: antinorton | November 3, 2009 11:47 PM
For those confused about the pic look at it again... System is using 70% CPU but so is Norton - 70+65=100% ? I dont think so :)
Posted by: XPD | May 19, 2009 3:58 PM
65+70 = 135%, and I think you'll find 135% is greater than 100% if you do the math.
Posted by: Dave | May 18, 2009 2:42 PM
60%+75%=135% . . . hence 'overclocked' joke
Posted by: nathan | May 6, 2009 10:25 PM
I think they added the 70% and the 65% together when really it means 70% of the CPU is being used and 65% of that 70% is Norton
Posted by: Logan | May 6, 2009 6:03 PM
It seems that nobody considered the fact that the CPU is running simultaneously far more programs than Norton alone. Click on CTRL+ALT+DEL to open the task manager and you'll see dozen of programs that run in the background. The CPU loading shows the sum of all activities on the computer.
Posted by: Tim | May 6, 2009 7:21 AM
can you add?? 65 + 70 != 100
Posted by: Michael | April 28, 2009 5:58 PM
65+70=more than 100
Posted by: Sam | April 8, 2009 2:50 PM
Someone, how about adding 65%+70%?
Are seeing the issue now?
Posted by: Anon | March 31, 2009 6:25 PM
Was the wrong image posted? Neither the system nor norton CPU usage on the image are over 100%. Maybe this page itself should be the next Dumb Terminal entry for implying either 65 or 70 are greater than 100? :)
Posted by: Someone | March 20, 2009 12:59 PM
This is why Norton sucks. :D
Posted by: Alex | February 16, 2009 3:56 PM