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Summary: This is the BEST there is! 2nd copy of the same product..
Review: This is the best program you can buy... 1st thing... I have always had some sort of firewall/security program installed on my computers... Some were free ones, others norton and mcafeewere not... Anyway I had the 2002 security program and works... I bought the 2004 security program on eBay paid $65.00 for it, installed it, loved it... Anyway, I killed my computer (not norton) so I reinstalled the original software from my restore disks and didn't look before hand to find my security disks... Needless to say I think I threw it away on accident!?!?! Not sure... Moral of the story I just bought a 2nd copy to install it on my PC as I have the 2002 firewall on it now... Which compaired to the 2004 internet security... It sucks big time... I love this program and highly recommend this product to anyone who hates... POP UPS, SPAM, virus invasions all the time.... RUN don't walk, RUN to buy it... NOTHING IS BETTER!
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Summary: Couldn't even install it!
Review: I had been a McAfee fan up until 2000 when their suite became buggy. So I switched to Norton. Everything was great...until NIS 2004. I have tried to install the software multiple times - unsuccessful. The Symantec website is not the most user-friendly guide for help, plus they want $30 for technical support. I would avoid this program. It is near impossible to install and even worse to get all the embedded registry entries out.
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Summary: dont't buy not worth the aggravation
Review: I previously had Nortons System Works and Norton Firewall.
This product is a disaster. It is the worst piece of software
I've ever had to deal with. My computer locks up and Ctrl/alt/
Delete won't even work. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it.
It is a true nightmare. There is no online help and going to their site is useless. You have to call and pay. Who needs this?
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Summary: Don't install Symantec products
Review: I've discovered two new threats... W32.SymantecNIS2004Pro.Worm and W32.SymantecNSW2004Pro.Worm Symptoms are not being able to connect to the internet, login to your personal firewall, run your anti-virus program, or scan your emails from viruses. Removal of both of these is extremely difficult. There are a few removal tools out there (all of which don't work completely) and conflicting advice from the Symantec Knowledge Base and live Technical Support. You will be required to alter registry files yourself and search for hidden files so you can manually delete them. Symptoms can develop right after installation of Symantec programs, or even a few days from then (it varies...how interesting). Please be aware that even after uninstalling all Symantec products using Add/Remove Programs (which by the way, probably won't work, it varies...how interesting) there will still be 24-73 Symantec files still residing on your computer (it varies...how interesting). These files may still interfere with your normal computer use, such as using the Help & Support features of your OS or computer manufacturer. The last few remaining files are extremely difficult to remove as you can not delete them yourself even after doing a Selective System Startup, loading only Microsoft System Services. The best protection against this threat is...once you finally get all Symantec products removed from your computer to never install one of their products again. Be careful, distribution of this threat is very high and can you believe people actually pay for the threat? For even further protection...visit http://www.mcafee.com
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Summary: Memory Hogging Program
Review: Norton has a name in the market but I think it's only the name. It's a rip off if one buys Norton Internet Security and antivirus. The former hogs memory and it takes ages for the computer to start. Nothing spectacular is done by internet security or by antivirus software. "Live updates" does not help much either. The antivirus program was able to detect spyware on my laptop but was unable to remove it. It said, "Get updates to remove". I got many updates but it failed to remove. A freeware program from download.com was able to remove spyware easily!! I would ask you NOT to buy this software. All that is remaining is the NAME.
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Summary: Total disaster
Review: What a horrid mess. Did the people at Norton ever try to install
this ! Or see how it runs....I think not !!!!!
It locks up the computer, screws up explorer, deletes drivers,
the list goes on. How can a company dump a defective product
like this on the market ? The only good thing about this product is the 60 day refund offered on the Norton website. Anyone
who has purchased NIS04 should get damages for pain and suffering too. Yuck.....Minus stars.
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Summary: What a mess
Review: I am on my fourth attempt to install (really upgrade from 2003) the Norton Firewall that was bundled with the Internet Security. It has been a disaster. Everything works if I disable the Firewall, but isn't that a problem? Their web site has plenty of articles on troubleshooting the product, though none have solved the problem. I am tempted to call for support, but I am not interested in paying Norton more money for a product I have already paid for. I am tempted to follow some of the other reviewer's lead and pick another product.
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Summary: Disaster
Review: Once you get it to work it is pretty good. In general, now that I have cooled down, I am probably happy. However, I have installed this product on 4 computers and it has crashed all 4 in some fashion. This product cost me over 25 hours to recover my systems damaged from the installation. At a minimum, make a full back up before starting the install. I was even an existing Norton customer with installed Norton software and it still crashed my computers. Norton has a real problem and they won't even acknowledge it. I think they are basically a good company and this is basically a good product but it is not ready for primetime. Bottom-line, unless you are a real PC weenie with lots of time on your hands when things go wrong, don't install this product. Maybe worth revisiting in the future.
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Summary: Good only for virus scanning
Review: This product is very poorly designed and shows that Symantec should stick to virus protection software. I have found it to be more intrusive to the user than to hackers. I had to disable the AntiSpam portion of the software completely because it came up with far too many false positives. Every single message I received that did not come from someone in my address book or from someone whose previous emails I had explicitly marked as "not junk mail" was flagged by NIS as spam. I spent more time sifting through the "Norton AntiSpam" folder than I did reading my email. Outlook 2003 has built-in spam filtering that seems to work well, so there's no need to put up with the headaches that NIS causes. The other "features" are just as bad. The privacy function in NIS does not seem to work at all. Credit card numbers that I had specified as private information were not flagged when I later used them online. The ad blocking and browser privacy functions tend to break so many websites that it's just not worth the hassle for the supposed security. Besides, Google's free popup blocker negates the need to purchase software to do the same thing. The firewall is decent, but ZoneAlarm's free firewall would probably work just as well. You would be best served to avoid this product and just get Norton AntiVirus. Most of the other functions that NIS purports to serve should be left to freeware or shareware.
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Summary: Good product w/ bugs & poor support
Review: The good: seems to do a better job of autoconfiguring the firewall for known software than NIS 2002. Liveupdate works for updated definitions. The bad: I didn't want to update from NIS 2002 in the first place, but its Liveupdate brought in an update that caused the firewall to use every last bit of the CPU and slow surfing to an unusable rate. A support call to Symantec costs more than an upgrade and they don't support anything prior to their 2003 application, so I upgraded. Now I find that if you use Outlook with more than one profile, Norton's Antispam will crash it every time you switch profiles (i.e. users). Apparently, they've known about this since 2002, but, unlike other software companies that had similar bugs (e.g. Groove), Norton has not provided a fix. To top it off, when you upgrade, you lose any time you had remaining on your old subscription to virus definition updates and such (I lost 6 months).
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