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Summary: Symantec has blown a great reputation
Review: Memory hog; forces Outlook Express to restart, reconnect - NO support from Web site; I bitterly regret installing it on my computer; previous version was fine and I had no complaints. This is a nut cluster.
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Summary: Seems ok to us (could use better firewall alerts & docs)
Review: No problems installing NIS 2004 on HP Pavilion (P4 @ 1.8 with XP, and while NAV 2002 was loaded). First time with a firewall app, but used NAV for many years. PC now takes slightly longer to start XP (logical, since it is loading an extra app). Occasionally the firewall alerts can be annoying to decipher (e.g. NIS reported our PC as the intruder), but NAV and LiveUpdate seem to be running fine. Antispam feature seems to be 85-90% effective, but occasionally declares war on MS-Outlook inbox rules. Haven't tried to use the parental control. Overall, NIS 2004 does the job (however, Symantec should read the other reviews, as it seems many people do not share this opinion).
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Summary: Wish I Would Have Known!
Review: This is the worst software on the market! I couldn't even get through the installation without problems. My computer exceeded all of the system requirements. I made sure of that before I bought the product. I ended up having to reformat my computer! I'm not about to try and install this software again! Since I opened the box, the store I bought it from (not Amazon) will not take it back. $60 down the drain! Live and learn...
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Summary: Help ! I've been robbed.
Review: It's been a long time since I've intentionally installed as malicious a piece of software as Norton Internet Security 2004. Frankly, I'm a little disappointed that the Antivirus component didn't intercept and quarentine itself before it trashed my OS. When it actually runs, this software at best consumes all available resources and slows your system to a crawl. I'm running a clean install of Windows XP pro SP1a on a machine with 1 gig of RAM and a 3.2 gHz P4. When the software loads it still takes 3 minutes to log in! After this it frequently locks up the OS and interferes with other software. I have installed, uninstalled, reinstalled, booted to safe mode, manually cleaned out my registry, hard drive and reinstalled ... all to no avail. I've tried every lame suggestion from Symantec's support and only run into more trouble. I've even tried forcing the start up order, borrowing from earlier version fixes, but no luck there either. I nearly had to format and reinstall windows just to get my system working again.
Don't make my mistake, I bought this software based on their past reputation and didn't read the reviews until it was too late. Norton took my money and at least 2 days of my life, and I have nothing to show for it but a bruised and battered operating system and that sickening feeling you get when you've been betrayed by someone you once trusted.
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Summary: Where's the -5 choice?
Review: This software is horrible. Heed the other reviewers' advice and don't buy this thing. I installed it four times and got several error messages every time. I just spent THREE hours with Dell reinstalling and reformatting my hard drive. It's not worth it! Don't bother, NAV 2003 works just fine!
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Summary: Frustrating
Review: I have had a number of Norton products in the past--all of which ate up a lot of memory--but 2004 eats up so much memory that my computer ceased to function efficiently. I turned off most of the features on the internet security and antivirus just to keep my machine running. Also, I had to turn off the firewall as it prevented me from going to my routinely visited websites, including my homepage! The firewall also interferes with the logon to my ISP, preventing a network connection. Upgrading my memory to 512MB RAM (and still running Win98 SE) allowed me to turn back on everything but the problematic firewall. A most frustrating experience.
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Summary: 2004 IS CRAP - stick with 2003
Review: I have loved norton products for years, and did not blink and eye at buying the latest version of NIS - and so began the week of HELL. I have to agree with all the other negative comments reviewing this product, this product is a NIGHTMARE and was definitely prematurely released. I am an IT professional, and at this point I have spent over 18 hours troublshooting the product, installing, removing, reinstalling (9 times now), online support, emailing support, paying for tech support (who incidently did nothing more than have me uninstall, clean out the registry entries, and reinstall) even to the point of reformatting the harddrive - TWICE. This product was not ready for release. Stick with NIS2003, its stable, 2004 is not.
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Summary: I have a headache!
Review: If I could have rated this program minus something, I would have. The only reason I put one star, is that I was unable to rate it less. I have spent the last 2 days hasseling with this program. It put my computer in safe mode, which took 1-1/2 days to figure out how to fix. I tried everything. I am not an expert, but certainly no novice and this is a royal pain. Error message upon error message... you fix one thing, think you have it knocked, and boom, another error message. I finally got it installed, but cannot enable the virus potection, among other problems. So, what good is it... duh! It is the absolute worse program that I have ever had to misfortune to try to install. This is a nightmare. I only hope that I can get it off my computer. Please, for your sake, pay attention to the reviews. You won't know the pain you avoided, but take my word, you will be less stressed and not have the huge headache that I am now experiencing.
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Summary: Anything more then 1 star is to much.
Review: I use to have Norton Internet Security 2002 and 2003 and loved them both. They would help block unwanted ads and Trojan horses that other people were trying to break in. Yes, they have broken in before because a new directory was created on my hard drive and it was all in spanish (that was before I bought either). I bought 2004 hoping it would be better. It wasn't that easy to install, menus where not very helpful, baffling to set up and it make the computer run real slow. On top of all that, it made I.E. even slower. My kids love talking with instant messenger, but it won't allow them with the firewall up, so I have to disable that portion just so they can use the internet. Don't get this program since you have to disable a few portions of it just to work right.
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Summary: Get only the AV, skip the rest.
Review: I was renewing my anti-virus subscription and decided to upgrade to NIS 2004. Bad decision. The firewall contains "automatic" rules for a large majority of programs, mostly Microsoft products, based upon policies that I don't understand. I don't want to "automatically" allow connections to products with yet undiscovered security holes. Even ZoneAlarm Basic is better and it costs $0. The spam filter marks all non-English email as spam. I now have to pore over all spam to dig out my wife's foreign corresponence, a procedure much more painful than manually deleting the spam in the first place. Terrible. I don't see any advantage to the pop-up blocker beyond what one gets with the free and generally useful google toolbar. The intrusion detection is the worst, simply an anologue of Anti-virus signiture matching applied to the network. The firewall blocks offending source IP addresses for 30 minutes. Lame. If an attacker forges the source address as www.amazon.com does NIS 2004 block that too? Probably. Get Norton Anti-virus and skip the rest. It's useless crap.
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