NORTON SYSTEMWORKS 2006 - £19.99 at WH SMITH

biglugs

In WH Smith in Aylesbury yesterday they had a boxed copy of Norton Systemworks 2006 for £19.99 (red stickered down from £46.99 I think it was). May have been a local thing or may be national, because they have lots of clearance stuff in their current sales.
This is £46.99 in PC World at the minute.

Cue flaming from AVG and McAfee fans - off you go!

withabix

biglugs wrote:

Cue flaming from AVG and McAfee fans - off you go!

Can I flame you instead?

There's no Antivirus software in Systemworks!

amancalledchip

I'm with blueyonder, and they do a package for free, called PCGuard, NTL do one too called NetGuard.
Everyone i speak to is unaware that they do these or , as with blueyonders 4mb package its all free too.( antivirus,firewall,anti pop up, parental control,anti spyware,identity theft protection)
Ive had no problems with it, and it doesnt seem to be as resource hungry as Norton.

The basic package (1mb) gets you some items but not all.
With norton £25 and upwards, its worth a try.

teb_2

iainkirk wrote:

Can I flame you instead?

There's no Antivirus software in Systemworks!

Might be better to flame you.

There IS Anti-Virus in Systemworks.

There's no Firewall however.

withabix

D'oh!

Quite correct!

I consider myself well and truly flamed!

going2die_rich

Why not just stick £10 more in and get "NORTON SYSTEM WORKS PREMIER (& PERSONAL FIREWALL 2006)" I believe the Personal Firewall contains AntiVirus protection as well. It's on PC World for £29.99

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1739011889.1155805301@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccefaddiildemidcflgceggdhhmdgmi.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=353379&category_oid=

Hope this helps,

Bert_Anderson

I'd suggest not installing Norton products at all these days.

I used to use them many years ago but AVG Free, Windows Firewall (or your router hardware firewall) paired with Spybot Search & Destroy (for nowt!) suit me just fine and allow you to actually control your PC...unlike Norton which (these days) can cause more stress than anything else.

In a nutshell, I used to like Norton products but these days I'm not impressed.

26power

Checked local branch for this, as my subscription due for renewal at more than cost in first message.

Nothing like that message obvious, except for a couple of Norton products quite heavily discounted, but not Systemworks 2006. Asked an assistant if SW2006 in offer. He wasn't sure but kindly scanned bar code. Pleasantly surprised at price of £24.99, rather than something like £46.99.

A lot better price than upgrading via Norton, or any other price I could find.

Hope this helps someone.

Cheers,

26power

andybrock

i suggest trying NOD 32 for your anti virus,a lot easier on your system resources.
http://www.eset.com/index.php

motorguy

Bert_Anderson wrote:

I'd suggest not installing Norton products at all these days.

I used to use them many years ago but AVG Free, Windows Firewall (or your router hardware firewall) paired with Spybot Search & Destroy (for nowt!) suit me just fine and allow you to actually control your PC...unlike Norton which (these days) can cause more stress than anything else.

In a nutshell, I used to like Norton products but these days I'm not impressed.

Couldnt have summed it up better Bert. Thats exactly the setup i use

biglugs

I'd suggest not installing Norton products at all these days.

See - I told you