Norton Security (Beta version)

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Originally Posted by sanjsrik

I disagree comlpetely, wholeheartedly, and absolutley with this assessment. AS *I* sad, I've been a beta tester for many Norton/Symantec products. What used to be good products in recent years have become bloatware, uninstall nightmare issues, memory hogs, resource hogs, etc., and anon.

I would NEVER recommend Norton/Symantec products to anyone. Most, as someone else pointed out, who have them installed leave themselves open to many vulnerabilities. Norton/Symantec may have the reputation that they update their signatures more often than others, that too is not a true statement.

Their AV labs used to be amazing. Now, they're just irrelevant. They have been making their money by being the pre-installed applications on a lot of machines. I uninstall it (and then make sure that the crappy installer they use since it NEVER uninstalls properly, is also completely wiped out of all registry keys, all directories, even in the common directories that it leaves countless leftover running applications because apparently the developers are too lazy to properly uninstall the application).

I too know what I'm talking about. I've seen the demise of this company from good applicatin developer to schlock.

Can you explain how you "beta tested the product"? I hope by that you meant run viruses on your pc on purpose and see how it cleans it up and not just run in the background and use casually right?

I actually look at the numbers from a wide variety of places as I also own servers and try to make sure what I use for my servers is up and on par (no I don;t use norton for servers) but I also look at the results for the home packages...what norton fails at is Spyware..their antispyware is pretty much none existent...but as far as raw AV and Firewall they do better then the rest...which is why I install the 3 other free Antispyware tools to compliment there 1 weakness...

So far I have not gotten even 1 virus on my 7 pcs for over 10 years so I can't say my assessments are off..and I'm not the only one using those pcs...

Most common mistakes from those who use Norton as I said is

1) using AV only and not their NIS pack
2) Using Norton 360
3) Not having proper Antispyware installed with Norton
4) Not uninstalling their previous AV completely and running it on top