Description:
Norton SystemWorks 2001 provides an integrated suite of software applications that cover almost every aspect of keeping your Mac running smoothly, and fixing problems when they arise. The suite consists of four components. Utilities 6.0, one of the best known Mac disk utility packages, offers a full range of disk and file maintenance functions, allowing you to recover badly damaged disks, fix minor disk and file damage, optimize your drive by defragmenting files and applications, and recover accidentally deleted files. If the worst happens, and you find that you can't even start up from your Mac's hard drive, the Norton SystemWorks 2001 CD also works as a start-up disc, giving you a chance to recover files and fix the damaged drive. Virus protection, in the form of Norton AntiVirus 7.0, is simple and comprehensive. Version 7.0 of the AntiVirus application not only protects you from Macro viruses, which are the most common form of virus on the Mac, but will even scan e-mail attachments as you download them, to warn of potential infection before the file has a chance to infect your computer. It even integrates itself into the main Norton Utilities control screen, so that all your Norton applications are available from a single launch pad. The LiveUpdate feature keeps both the Norton applications and the essential virus definition files up to date by automatically checking for updates when you connect to the Internet, or at prescheduled times. Backing up your essential files is always advisable, but often difficult to do effectively. Dantz Retrospect Express allows you to automate the process, backing up to removable media, another hard drive, or to an Internet archive with ease. The wide range of configuration options takes some time to configure, but once this is done, backing up becomes a single-click operation. Finally, Aladdin Spring Cleaning allows you to keep your valuable disk space free by deleting unwanted and unused files, duplicate files, temporary Internet browser caches, and even removing unnecessary code from some software applications. Mac users looking for a total troubleshooting and maintenance package for their computer will find that Norton SystemWorks 2001 provides a solution that is hard to beat. --Daniel Jardine
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