Extremely Discouraging - Remove Antivirus 8 Software Critique
As a computer technician, I’ve used or worked with nearly every “security” program out there. This offers moderate protection for internet users. The price is better than that of big box stores and Norton’s website. NIS continues the track record of excellence established by NIS 2010. I really like the way it blocks potentially harmful and phishing sites (we all do foolish stuff and click on bad stuff on occasion). Tried others when Norton hiccupped a few years back, but they came back stronger than ever. I always use additional free products to augment as no one program catches everything. I’ve been using Norton Internet Security for over two years now. It has been a very impressive program, not too intrusive and it is not a resource hog on my computers. I installed NIS on 2 computers that had NIS 2010 on them (1 Vista 64 and the other Windows XP). For one I followed Norton’s suggestion on its web site to delete all temporary files, but for the 2nd install I did not.
They didn’t seem to upgrade or downgrade too much on this new version. It does seem you can turn off Idle Scans in though which is a huge plus.
Utilities is mainly money for old rope - most of its tools are actually links to Windows own built-in tools. Of the rest, the free CCleaner does a brilliant job of cleaning the registry and removing all traces of various history trails (internet, MRU lists and so on). I can be reading on the Internet, or even be off-line, and all of a sudden a distracting Norton dialog box will pop up to inform me that Norton is performing system scans in the background. The only problem is that these scans take up so much memory that my browser or open program will lock up and crash, so I usually have to reboot, and by then, I lost my train of thought on what I was doing on the computer to begin with, and I find it very annoying! In my memory the only way that technical support has been able to fix a problem is to use a removal tool and reinstall. This was the fix for the activation problem, and it did leave me with a functional product.
The UI is impressively easy to use. It’s still very fast light on resources, with an extremely good protection.
I think the interface is clean, attractive and easy to use. Performance seems to be greatly improved over their offerings of years past.
I asked a co-worker and they said they used Norton and it was great. I tried it and was really impressed with it. I have used Norton for three or four years. All you have to do is enter the product key and you’re good to go for another year.
A good example of this is that when using the Password (identity) Safe. The 360 system takes a long time to fill in the username and password.
It’s very tiring buying software that basically exists to keep your operating system working the way it should do straight out of the box anyway. Pet Food Distributors.
