Norton 360

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Publisher's description of Norton 360

From Symantec: Norton 360 delivers all-in-one security for everything the computer users in your family care about, providing automatic and transparent protection from viruses, spyware, fraudulent Web sites, phishing scams, intrusions, and the latest online threats. With a renewable subscription, up to three PCs in your household are continuously protected, safeguarding your family when they shop or bank online, play games, send email, or download files. Norton 360 also helps keep your PCs tuned for peak performance. Plus, it protects the data on them by making it easy to automatically back up and restore important files locally or to a secure online storage service. Requires high-speed Internet access. 2 GB of online storage included, with option to purchase more.

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Editor's review of Norton 360

Symantec provides a 15-day free trial of Norton 360 that is full functioned. During the install we were not asked to provide any personal information, nor were we asked to install third-party toolbars, as is the case with Norton Antivirus 2008 and Norton Internet Security 2008. We were not asked to reboot after the install. Norton 360 is better than Norton Internet Security 2008 in some respects, namely that it's lighter on system resources, the tools are better integrated, and it presents a much better design model than the current Norton product line.

Norton 360 includes antivirus, antispyware, antiphishing, antispam, antirootkit protection, a firewall, Symantec's new SONAR (Symantec Online Network for Advance Response) behavioral monitoring software, and a vulnerability assessment tool to see what Windows updates your computer might be missing. But more advanced users should stay with the Internet security suites for now. There is no uninstall option, so you'll have to use the Windows Control Center's Add/Remove Software utility. After a reboot, we found all traces of the product were removed.

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  Norton 360

  All In One Product

  by: Reborn master on 02-Apr-2007 12:16:08 AM

  Pros: Norton 360 combines security and tune up features for your computer.Interface makes it simple and easy to use.It can also corrects any problems.Excellent antivirus and antispyware, detects and removes many threats.Firewall is strong but silent, sometimes too silent.Realtime protection stops virus and spyware before they enter you computer.It blocks any suspicious sites which makes it safe to bank on line.Tune up works fine and it really makes your computer faster.2 gb backup is very good and you can choose where to back up it.Now the best thing about Norton 360 is that it uses less memory than previous versions of Norton products.

  Cons: Installation is big.Doesn't support Firefox and Opera.

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  Norton 360

  Works great with "Vista" but,

  by: Chainmail2006 on 12-Aug-2007 06:47:05 AM

  Pros: It's still a "Norton" security application. It has a nice GUI and it's easy to use, almost to easy. This application, unlike other "Norton" software will uninstall easily. It is a great set it and forget it security suite. Too much so. It sells for the same price as a three user license of "Kaspersky Internet Security Suite 7" so why would I choose to invest in this package? Personally, I wouldn't! But, if you are a user with safe web surfing habits, are using a hardware firewall ( an encrypted router ), you might be safe with this suite. Lord knows, it's easy to get along with! But, I wouldn't even with a router. It certainly is one of the the best set it and forget it security applications available as is the "Norton Internet Security Suite". I'll be darned if I'd trust it though.

  Cons: In "Norton 360" you get extras. You get some tuning modules, you get 2GB of on line storage for backup. Big deal! 2Gb is nothing to me. You get a "to quite firewall". You get a scanner which, in comparison, has a small signature file. You get a suite that misses infections and has a difficult time cleaning some of the worst there are. I need to be a part of my security software. I want to see my firewall working. I want to be told, via a pop up when I am about to mess up. I want great detection and removal of all infection types. At the same, 3 user license price, get "Kaspersky". There is no comparison when it comes to real protection. And NO, I don't work for any software company. I'm simply stating my opinion.

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  Norton 360

  Just My Opinion

  by: Software Tester on 02-Apr-2008 05:22:25 PM

  Pros: NOTHING

  Cons: In 2001 I had purchased a new computer and norton antivirus came with it. Norton was updated regularly and scans were done regularly Norton did not find a single virus. But I had viruses on my computer and the viruses wipped out my operating system. I heard good reviews about Norton 360 so I gave it a try lets just say I wished I hadnt purchased Norton 360.

  1. Norton 360 and past versions of Norton Antiviruses are major resource hogs.

  2. I kept getting messages to back up junk all the time ( waste of time ).

  3. When my licence expired Symantec automatically took the funds out of my

  credit card. The credit card I had at the time of purchase has expired so they

  took it upon themselfs to find a active credit card I have and took the funds out

  of that. I was mad I didnt want to renew my licence but for Symantec not to

  contact me about if I wanted to renew my license and get my credit card

  information and take the funds out was a bit extreme. I contacted my credit -

  card company they said they would refund my money and go after Symantec

  for a full refund. From now on I'm going to Staples and purchase a Antivirus.

  4. I had a lot of false positives with Norton during scans.

  5. Not to offened anybody that really likes Norton or Norton 360 or Symantec

  but I couldnt find anything I liked about Norton 360 so I left that field blank.

  I just hope for the people that use Norton / Symantec products have good

  luck with it and a virus or viruses dont wipe out your operating system while

  using Norton / Symantec.

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  Norton 360

  This is disaster. it's block hotmail because 360 says that it's not a safe site

  by: Ivring on 15-Apr-2008 07:19:03 AM

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  Norton 360

  Norton 360 pretty damn good

  by: Mike0000 on 19-Apr-2007 07:05:43 PM

  Pros: i like everything about this program...it dose a great job like cleans up internet history.. cleans up internet temporary files... cleans up windows temporary files... and dose a disk defragmented to improve your pc..the security is good too it found some high stuff.. updates everyday.. its a really great program.... works with windows vista too....

  Cons: i have had no problems with norton 360

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