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Summary: What a ripoff!
Review: The problems began when the installation froze, stretching installation time to a whopping five hours! Once the software was finally installed, it encountered an "internal error" which could be "addressed" at the Symantec website. Unfortunatly, however, the technical support link is non-existent. Literally, "www.symantec.com/techsupp" DOES NOT EXIST!!! This also renders live updates impossible. Of course, this issue could probably be resolved on the phone during the work week for the low price of 30 bucks. Instead, I'll just trash this piece of crap and spend 40 bucks on PC-Cillin 2004. Buyer beware!!
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Summary: It's great if you keep it updated...
Review: We use this at work and it is by far the best antivirus program out there. At home, I use the Macintosh version. The best I can say is that there are so many virii on the Window's platform you'd be silly not to have something like this installed. If you're tired of virii, worms, trojans, spyware, etc..., there is another solution. Get a Mac. The piece of mind you get knowing that the operating system is nearly impossible to infect or crack outweighs the tiny learning curve in switching to a different operating system. How many virii have I gotten at my Mac at home in the last 6 months? Zero. How many at work? At least one a week via email. Even our CIO (Information officer) is putting in a proposal as I write this to migrate the entire server and desktop system to the Mac OS X platform, and we're a fortune 500 company. The money saved alone in downtime from systems getting infected (if you can't work, you can't produce!), more than pays for the minor expense of making the switch. NAV is good. But unless you keep your virus definitions up to date, you're asking for a heap of trouble. And how many users really take the time to update their definitions even when the program prompts them to do so? I can count them on one hand.
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Summary: Auto-Protect makes Internet Explorer 50 times slower
Review: What's worse, getting a virus or using Auto-Protect?After a fresh installation of a Windows XP upgrade, and a faster processor, my PC was running great for many weeks. I then decided it was the way I liked it and installed Norton AntiVirus 2004 to finish off the installation. All of a sudden my broadband connected PC that normally loaded web pages quickly was excruciatingly slow. Hitting the drudgreport.com pages usually took about 3 seconds to complete, but had changed to over 2 minutes to complete loading of all elements on the page! It behaved this way until I disable the "Auto-Protect" feature. Leaving that feature on was as bad of an effect of any virus I could imagine getting caught with. Of course Symantec's web site is of not assistance. Earlier today my searching would not turn up any information about slow performance (except to shift the blame elsewhere). I found an Internet article that referred to a post that Symantec had on their site, but it was a broken link. Further attempts to use Symantec's support web site gives me messages indicating the support functions are not operational. Also:
* No time setting for automatic scans. I guess NAV is better able than me to decide when to run. * Non-administrator users on my PC get nagged to check for updates, and are then promptly told they don't have access permissions to update. Gag! I thought NAV was the premier anti-virus product on the market :-) After Rebates, I got this practically for free, but I am contemplating whether or not it was worth it. How can they release this stuff??
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