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Software Norton Internet Security 2004

Domain Name Com's - Software : Norton Internet Security 2004

- Unbelievably Awful Software! Cumbersome, slow, dangerous...
I bought and installed Norton Internet Security 2004 version 7.0.3.8 on a PC with Windows 98 Operating System. It took hours to download, install, reboot, activate, register, update, perform pre-install scans, perform recommended scans of the whole drive, and other steps I probably forgot. It downloads a huge number of files. I frequently had to reboot the machine during the installation process. It took maybe 4 or 5 hours to install the software. And that was using broadband access. At the end of the installation, I had lots of questions, and could not seem to get it working right.

Then I tried to access support on their web site. Badly designed. Impossible to find stuff. Then I looked for email support. No such thing as far as I could find. Then I looked for telephone support. Called the number, went throught a long series of menus, at the end of which was silence. No one ever answered.

After a google search, I found this Amazon review space. It has way more help on the product than you will ever find from Symantec/Norton.

The most important piece of advice is DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT.

I will add just one minor example to the many already here. When you install the parental controls feature, they tell you they recommend a default setting of a child's account so that when the machine boots up, the child account will be the initial one. What they do not tell you is that you will then not be able to access the Internet. Get it? To protect children from the Internet, Norton won't let them on the Internet, at all. Not any sites. None. No access.

Now if you want to learn more, you would need to get on the Internet to get to the Norton website. The trick is you simply disable the parental controls. Then you can get to the NOrton website. But to do that you must have already set up a supervisor account. There is a way to log off the child, log on as supervisor, and then disable the software, and then get on the Internet. But it is not easy to figure out.

The software is badly designed, not supported, and will cost you a lot if you install it in terms of lost time, frustration, the cost of tech support to get rid of it, and damage to your system.

Rating:

- Stupid Activation
The product is top of the line but the bad part about it is you are not abel to use it if your computer totaly crashes because of the stupid activation. Compared to Mcafee Internet Security 6.0 this is the far better one.

Whoever thought of the stupid activation must be an idiot.

Rating:

- DON'T BUY IT!!!! Hogs resources and slooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww
I read how the buyers of this product watched their computers turn into processing sloths, bought a copy and watched my 2.4 Gig XP Pro processor slow down below the level of my 750 Meg 2000Pro laptop! At the same time I bought PC-Cillin for the laptop and what a slick product!

So now, when we type, half the time the XP Pro 2.4 Gig PC lags behind the input, sometime by 10 characters!

Symantec should give us all a refund and apology! I will NEVER buy their product again at this rate, and neither should you.

BEWARE!!!!

Rating:

- Do not use Norton Internet Security
Norton Antivirus is an excellent software. It deletes viruses and worms at hight reliability if Liveupdate is on. But Norton Internet Security may severely disturb the usage of the web: it blocks content which should not be blocked and the criteria used to detect so called «promotional content» are weak: imagine you including a JavaScript source menu.js on your homepage. It works. Then rename the file and the html code to banner.js. It's blocked. Seen on studmed.unibe.ch. Or: pictures are blocked only because of their size. Seen on maarsen.ch/imaktu.htm
Well, do not use Norton Internet Security but activate your Windows-XP-Firewall. It is simple, reliable, low ressource consuming, already integrated and therefore for free.

Rating:

- Buyers Be Aware!-Keep the Headache Pills Handy!!!
I've alway liked Symantec products, except for this version 2004.
If you are already using a previous version of nortron security and unistalled it to install the new version, you will still have all kind of problems in installing the new version on your system! It seems like Symantec did a lousy job on this version. Luckly,with 3 rebates this product will cost me nothing! it is indeed worth nothing. To install that version you have to uninstall from the window registery anything called Symantec or Nortron,... also from the common files in the program folder the symantec folder has to be deleted. If you got stuck do what I did,search for any folder called symantec and delete it!then install that program(assuming you know what you are doing). If you have no previous version of nortron security on your system, or Nortron Antivirus, the installation will go fine, otherwise dig in and in to do a major registery clean up!the old programs will leave a trace that will mess up the new installation, even if you uninstalled the old programs perfectly. What dissapointes me the most that a software like that is not cheap gets zero support form symantec, if you want support, they'll charge you a Fee!I've tried the free versions of zone alarm and the free version of sygate and they both have a nice and easy installation and work great!. Next year when I purchase a 2005 FireWall version, I am buying the Zone Alarm or the sygate one.

I am giving a zero star to symantec for this version!

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