Who buys Norton?

Malestrom

Is there a difference? They both interfere with the correct operation of your PC, consume resources indiscriminantly and are awkward to remove - sounds like one and the same thing to me.

Quasar

I have had a Packard Bell laptop for 6 years (yes, 6), with Norton installed on it and it worked perfectly.

In February this year, as the laptop was getting past it and too slow (although it's still great as a backup) I bought a Toshiba from Dixons, also with Norton installed free for three months. When the end of the trial period approached, I got all the usual nudges to renew etc. I did and when the software was downloaded I could not install it.

I emailed Norton who told me to uninstall everything of theirs and then the updated version would instal. With considerable trepidation, I set about to follow these instructions, expecting total confusion.

Lo and behold, uninstal and instal. No problems, no hiccups!! I do a live update it on a daily basis and I seem to be well protected.

Norton seem to work for me.

sra

It must work amazingly well for some people or else it'd never have got so popular!

Problem is that you just don't know how it'll react with your system - or how easily you'll be able to remove it - till it's too late

Sofa_Sogood

sra wrote:

It must work amazingly well for some people or else it'd never have got so popular!

Problem is that you just don't know how it'll react with your system - or how easily you'll be able to remove it - till it's too late

And it's not easy for technophobes like me sra

It detected 2 "risks", but when I went to the site, it gave out a load of gobbledegook about getting rid of them manually (or some such gobbledegook lol) Words like "registry" etc ... I daren't even go there

I've left them ....

Quasar

LOL sofa_sogood! I agree that the technobabble can get so ridiculous, I wonder if Norton boffins themselves understand what they put on!

Sofa_Sogood

Quasar wrote:

LOL sofa_sogood! I agree that the technobabble can get so ridiculous, I wonder if Norton boffins themselves understand what they put on!

I'm not sure

But after spending about £40 for it, I expected them to put things right

wolfman

I don't currently use Norton as I feel there are better alternatives, but it's not as bad as the press it gets.

I've used Norton 2003 and 2004 antivirus and it was very good, quite light, and I was never infected with something it couldn't handle.

If you do get Norton with your desktop/laptop, it's not that bad to use, or at least I wouldn't consider purchasing something else. If it doesn't come as part of a package and you're thinking of buying such a product, then I'd say look elsewhere. Something like Nod32 (av) and Kerio Personal Firewall is a good combo.

Sofa_Sogood

wolfman wrote:

I don't currently use Norton as I feel there are better alternatives, but it's not as bad as the press it gets.

I've used Norton 2003 and 2004 antivirus and it was very good, quite light, and I was never infected with something it couldn't handle.

If you do get Norton with your desktop/laptop, it's not that bad to use, or at least I wouldn't consider purchasing something else. If it doesn't come as part of a package and you're thinking of buying such a product, then I'd say look elsewhere. Something like Nod32 (av) and Kerio Personal Firewall is a good combo.

Originally my pc had NormanAv installed. I'd never heard of it but asked elsewhere if it was any good. Apparently it was, but by the time the reply came I'd 'uninstalled' it. I say 'uninstalled' , but there's still remnants of it

blinky

chunter wrote:

I recently put bt broadband onto a new Dell pc. The Dell had the 3-month license for Norton.
Bt installed fine but Norton says it itself needs to be reinstalled now - every time the pc is switched on.

Bye bye Norton. :wave:

:mad: RANT : It's always been a nuscience. It's always tried to take over your computer and it's always ground pcs down almost to a standstill. :mad:

Goes into my list with BT Yahoo & Aol. the NEVER, NEVER EVER list..

Did you uninstall the AOL Anti-Spyware package? If so, that is why you get the Norton Reinstall messages as the AOL package actually uses Norton, hence when you remove it Norton gets snotty.

There are instructions on the Symantec Site on how to fix it.

mark@epicswap

Mr_Skint wrote:

Id think id rather have the Virus :j

Depends what sort of virus!