Norton Antivirus 2004

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Summary: No problems here
Review: I have been using Norton 2004 for a few weeks now. I'm running a P4 with only 256RAM. Yet I've not seen one single problem with it that some people are mentioning. Plus I have 2 family members running it on slower machines w/o problems. I did see one person have major problems with their machine after installing Norton 2004, but the reason for it was because they had a worm on their system. Norton didn't create the problem, because they were already having trouble before that, it just found the problem (but couldn't correct it because the worm had been on for a long period of time). Try keeping your windows updates current, and you shouldn't have any trouble with Norton 2004.

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Summary: Do Not Buy!
Review: I upgraded to 2004 at the request of the sales rep - she said they would no longer support 2002 (which was working just fine). So, I said "ok". Bad move! In addition to spending some money, I've had blue screens (windows xp) and very high cpu utilizations. It finally got so bad, I had to uninstall. I'm now running 2002 again, and everything is ok. It's nice to have a fast machine, once again. DO NOT INSTALL NORTON ANTIVIRUS 2004!!!!!

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Summary: What's the problem?
Review: I don't get it. I have an Athlon 1.1 GB cpu with 256 megs of sd ram (no, it's not DDR ram) running on Windows ME (not exactly a barn-burner of a system). Installation of NAV 2004 went flawlessly, and it has worked perfectly in the 4+ weeks I've had it. My DSL speed was BARELY affected...still is lightening fast. As for my system, while it never was terribly swift, it was not noticebly affected by NAV 2004. I am floored when I hear people complaining that their P4 systems with 512 megs of DDR ram have slowed to a crawl. I don't get it.

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Summary: 2003 was better
Review: Symantec is following Microsoft's mistakes. Greed is requiring you to register. I am going Mac. This is insane. No one in the PC world respects privacy. It is enough that we have to buy crappy software to stay ahead of terrorists because of Microsoft errors! Symantec now joins the club.

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Summary: Anti--virus software that is worse than a virus.
Review: This awful program caused a fatal crash on my Windows 98 OS and I've had to reformat my hard disk! Thanks a lot, Symantec.

Honestly, a virus itself could hardly have caused much more damage.

Luckily, I keep back-ups of important files and the PC running 98 is no longer my main system. However, I am now left totally unprotected on this system and will probably have to reformat the disk again or mess around in the registry to get it off my system, as it won't uninstall properly.

This is licenced theft and vandalism.

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Summary: Stay Away from Symantec 2004 products
Review: Let me join the chorus. After years of being a satisfied Symantec customer I am thoroughly disgusted by this "upgrade". It will not install on a brand new HP running XP Home. The help is useless and confusing, the most likely result is trashing other applications that previously ran. After several remove and install attempts I am left without any antivirus protection since the pre-installed NAV that ran before the "upgrade" no longer runs. This product should be pulled off the shelves until it is safe to use.

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Summary: Norton Delivers Corrupt Files!
Review: By many accounts, this is the most highly rated anti-virus software out there. I bought it as an act of good faith, but when I installed it, the files were corrupt. I can't return it, because I've broken the seal. Norton, freely admitting that the files are frequently corrupt on even new copies of its software, declares that it is not its problem, but mine. Forty dollars later, I have never been able to run the real-time update feature. Not once. Now I have McAffee. It runs great - right out of the box. Just to be clear, I don't recommend this product.

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Summary: This isn't an upgrade!
Review: I thought I was doing the right thing, by updating my antivirus from Norton 2002 to Norton 2004. Boy was I wrong. Although I didn't experience the problems with the install that others did, I do notice an immediate performance slow-down of my computer. I have P4 1.6ghz, 512RAM and I can tell it's slowing my computer down. It may be worse for those with lesser systems. If you download programs to install, they vanish untill Norton decides their safe, which may be a safe thing if you have kids, but it's downright annoying if you are downloading from trusted sites. It's always running and scanning and refreshing in the background, monitoring everything you do online, causing glitches and pauses in your programs. It got downright maddening and, since it doesn't uninstall properly I was forced to go into the registry as well as several other places to wipe all of it's traces out, and completely uninstall and re-install SystemWorks to 'roll back' to 2002. My advice, get this ONLY if you desperately need it due to unruly teens or family members who share tons of files in chat rooms. Otherwise, for the smarter people stick with 2001, or 2002 and keep it updated. This 2004 is bloatware plain and simple. We MISS you Peter Norton! Come back!

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Summary: Spyware Detection Doesn't Work!!!
Review: I purchased the Nav2004 edition so I could gain the benefit of having background spyware detection.

So after installing, rebooting.. I thought I'd give it a test and download some known Gain spyware such as Precision Time and Data Manager.

Nav2003 let me do this without any warning!!.. also when I scanned my system, it still didn't notify me of this..

After waiting for over 1/2 hour on their support line.. I gave up and requested a refund..

Very disapointing.. as I had hoped that I would have a good solution against spyware... the bane of the internet...

So if you have 2003, stick with it.. the new version isn't much better..

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Summary: Will Not Install on Windows 98SE
Review: I tried to install the product on a machine with Windows 98SE, and repeatedly it gives an internal program error just prior to finishing and crashes. I tried all of Symantec's recommendations (virus scan off CD, virus scan from their website, install in a differend directory), but get the same result.