E 01/02/05 SYMANTEC SYSTEM WORKS 2005 & FIREWALL 2005 £29.99

Sooler

Good price for SYMANTEC SYSTEM WORKS 2005 & FIREWALL 2005, these are the full versions - not upgrade or educational versions

£29.99 in store & on line price

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/product.php?sku=934193



Keep your computer running smoothly with this bundle of programs from Symantec™ Norton™.

SystemWorks™ 2005: Everything you need to keep things running smoothly is included here—full versions of Norton AntiVirus™, Utilities™ and GoBack™. Norton AntiVirus blocks Internet worms before they enter your computer. Norton Utilities helps you fix and prevent system problems, and Norton GoBack lets you undo them.
System requirements: Windows® 98/Me/2000/XP

Personal Firewall 2005: Hackers can't threaten what they can't find. Stop them before they start by hiding your computer on the Internet.

Control information traffic: Send info to sites you trust and protect it from ones you don't. Prevent data from being sent without your knowledge in messages, forms or Office attachments.

Intrusion prevention: Suspicious incoming traffic is automatically blocked. You can also decide which programs on your computer can connect to the Internet.

shrek101

Just seen that on ITV.

Not bad price unfortunately you still need a anti virus as Norton firewall is just that a firewall only, if you need builtin firewall you either need a anti virus like AVG which there is a free version available, or another AV or Norton Internet Security which is the firewall and Norton AV togther.

GibsonSt19

shrek101 wrote:

Just seen that on ITV.

Not bad price unfortunately you still need a anti virus as Norton firewall is just that a firewall only, if you need builtin firewall you either need a anti virus like AVG which there is a free version available, or another AV or Norton Internet Security which is the firewall and Norton AV togther.

Norton Antivirus 2005 is included with Norton SystemWorks 2005.

Dig in!

shrek101

I stand corrected

jpieter

I think that Norton antivirus is also included with Norton Firewall.According to listings on Ebay for Norton internet security. I wouls certainly reccomend Norton Systemworks but not Firewall as i have heard alot of problems about installing. I will stick to Zone Alarm.

perry081064

ive built and installed norton products on dozens of pcs..a lot of my clients are first time users and ive (and the clients) never had any problems.
...in fact, id recommend it above all the others. :-)

NDK49

I had Norton Internet Security (AV + FW) for 3 years and my subscription is ending in a few weeks. I normally just upgrade with the same again but now there is a Windows Firewall included with XP Service Pack 2 should I not just buy Antivirus 2005 upgrade on its own to save money and system resources?

JPS

I find Norton Firewall much better than the Windows one. The Windows one is very basic. If you stop using the Norton one you will find yourself receiving loads of pop ups all the time, you won't have intrustion detection, privacy control or outbreak alert. I highly recommend keeping the Norton firewall over the Windows one.

GibsonSt19

NDK49 wrote:

I had Norton Internet Security (AV + FW) for 3 years and my subscription is ending in a few weeks. I normally just upgrade with the same again but now there is a Windows Firewall included with XP Service Pack 2 should I not just buy Antivirus 2005 upgrade on its own to save money and system resources?

Personally NDK40, I wouldn't rely on Windows XP Firewall. It's really not comparable with Norton FW.

For those who are getting a little confused about what's included in what:

You can buy Norton Antivirus
You can buy Norton Antivirus and Norton Firewall (called Internet Security)
You can buy SystemWorks (which includes Norton Antivirus, but not Firewall)
You can buy Norton Firewall (which is Firewall only, no Antivirus).

Hope that helps.

P.s. This is a pretty good price for both Firewall and SystemWorks (which includes Antivirus)!

Sooler

See here ...
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117380,00.asp
http://www.brienposey.com/kb/windows_xp_firewall.asp

... regarding the limitations of the Windows XP firewall

"the software suffers from two major flaws, critics say: it does not block outbound traffic, and it can be switched off by another application, possibly even by a clever worm."