is norton a good product?

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• 1 newsgeek // Aug 15, 2008

  I have had both Norton and Mcafee and I have Norton now. I like Norton better. A computer person told me once that virus definitions are quicker with Norton.

• 2 Margarita T // Aug 15, 2008

  I would rate it at #2, from top.

• 3 Tofus // Aug 15, 2008

  I rate having Norton worst than having a virus. Its IS one of the most awful product known to mankind. its no fairy story, I have seen so many with Norton where the computer slow to a crawl yet allows so many virus in.

  Try Kaspersky or Panda

• 4 MINDDOCTOR // Aug 15, 2008

  I would rate Nortons a zero. Will eat up all of your resources, fails to find viruses. If one is found usually is unable to remove. If removed will always leave fragments of the virus behind. And if you ever want to remove from your system, not even their removal tool will do the job. You are left with over 375 fragments of Nortons and the parent company glued to all of your files, folders, sub folders and registry. You have a total nightmare getting the fragments of Nortons out of your system.

  You can use Avira from Germany free version has a detection rating higher then Kaspersky Russia of about 97.6%. http://www.free-av.com/

  Or you can download the free version of Avast. http://www.avast.com They will ask you for your email address so they can send you a key that is good for one year. After one year just request a new key.

  Mind Doctor, France

• 5 sirandro_44 // Aug 15, 2008

  i rate it a 5(FIVE) as soon as i put it in,it detected over 1700 errors and fixed it right up.now my system runs fine

• 6 nicke name // Aug 15, 2008

  yes it is very good
  i woudlint rate it
  becuse they alerdy do ! it is in 2 place i think from 10 other produces

  you maye see some peploe saying it is horrbile did they even try it???

  i tryed many ” wut some guyes say it is good”
  and the norton was better than wut they recommanded! says!

  it is good for gaming and in msn and is it not easliy to turn it off!

• 7 Jack // Aug 15, 2008

  It depends what you want it for and if youre willing to pay subscription fees. I get by with AdAware. Id give nortons a 4 for customer support and functionality. but really, any with up-to-date definitions will work just fine. hope i helped.

• 8 blackhelio@sbcglobal.net // Aug 15, 2008

  I’d rate it 3.5 / 5 since Norton is kinda slow on start up and not worth the price you pay for it. But on the upside the scan is very good because it’s not as slow as Mcafee and detects most spyware and viruses. The interface is also a plus, one of the best in my opinion.

• 9 Val R // Aug 15, 2008

  Norton sucks. You can get a good free antivirus here

  http://www.free-av.com/en/download/1/download_avira_antivir_personal__free_antivirus.html

  First, download the free avira and then uninstall Norton through Add/Remove in your Control Panel, then install Avira. Never have two anti-virus softwares running on your computer.

• 10 Sam Fisher // Aug 15, 2008

  I agree with the people who are saying it sucks. Maybe, 4? 1 is Kaspersky.

• 11 doc_up72 // Aug 15, 2008

  Norton amazes me by the simple fact that it’s become popular at all. Probably by attaching itself to Microsoft or some other company. It sucks.
  I tested it against the free version of avast and avast won on the same computer and OS hands down.

• 12 master_mind413 // Aug 15, 2008

  -2 norton is a worthless piece of software seriously I used it for years until my computer was crashing and I tried every thing a friend of mine told me to try another security program I did and there was a virus within norton a trojan to be exact i dunno there are a lot of good ones out there but the one that I use now is called trend micro works great for me but stay away from norton

• 13 L S // Aug 15, 2008

  I don’t know where I would rate it but it’s not as good as it used to be and hogs too much of the resources. I used to use it and friends have one of the latest suites but I maintain friends’ computer and they’ve had more trouble than us with viruses and we use other products for security. That said, I like how easy it is to disable Norton 360 temporarily and that when time’s up, it switches back on if you forgot to do it. I think Norton 360 might be a swing back to a better product but I’m still waiting to hear more experiences from people. I use free of everything so I’m only interested from an “academic” point of view.

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