Advantages: Very Efficient, Comes from a Leading Security Company Disadvantages: Slow and activation is required.
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NORTON ANTIVIRUS 2004
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SYMANTEC
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Norton Antivirus 2004 is the lastest Antivirus program released by the famous security company Symantec. The question we must ask ourselves : Is this version something new so that we need to upgrade from 2003 or previous versions?
Yes
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I'm a casual PC user and I realized before long that sooner or later I would be catching virii if I continued ... ...This sheet explains about how Norton Antivirus-2004 must be activated, using a similar way like Windows Xp and Windows Office XP edition.
The Manual was English and explained the various steps of how to install and configure Norton Antivirus and what the program is capable of. Funny enough although "User's Guide" which is written on the front is translated in various languages, the manual itself is only english.
After going through the simple guided ...
CyberChrist 09.07.2004
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Advantages: Finds those virus suckers Disadvantages: Can't do a damn thing about them!
...we invested in the Symantec Norton AV. Our troubles would be over!! Yippee!!!
No! No! No! Installed the software. Quite easy to do, even for computer illiterates like us. Let the thing scan our system and guess what? It found 17 viruses! No problem, all we had to do was to then go to the Norton site where we would find information on how to get rid of the suckers...
Oh no we couldn't! No way was Norton going to let us jump that firewall into www ... ...people who said they used Norton and had no problems but perhaps it was the firewall. We disabled the firewall. Nope.... no improvement. Perhaps it was because our computer is so old (it's about 5 years old, Windows 98) but hey, the guff from Norton says it would work for Windows 98.
Eventually, totally frustrated, we had to completely uninstall Norton. Once we did, we were able to access the net again. Phew!
So now, we have installed the free ...
Louizalass 20.11.2004
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Advantages: Protection Disadvantages: System Drags
...have heard a lot about Norton and their Anti Virus software and decide I needed to upgrade from my free virus scanner and get something a little more powerful.
I spent around £25 on the software. When I got it home I put it straight in my computer. I type in my serial number and started downloading the updates, which by the way can take up to half an hour (even on brodband).
After a quick restart Norton started working. I did a quick scan and found ... ...fully.
So I purchased Norton Firewall. I had both installed yet my system seemed to be slowing down even more. Then I went onto the internet and looked a review for Norton and was shocked to find I wasn't the only person who this had happened to. It seems a few other users who have Norton complained of their computers slowing down.
I have a 2.0ghz computer with 512mb and a 40gb Hard Drive, not what you would call a out of date computer. After another ...
ReviewDude 15.08.2004
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Advantages: Better protection than ever, easy of use, automatic updates Disadvantages: The need to subscribe or upgrade after 1 year
...these virus creators, in steps Norton Antivirus 2004 - Complete Package (NAV 2004)
The new expanded threat detection capabilities of NAV 2004 includes scans for programs on your computer that could be used with malicious intent to compromise the security of another computer, spy on your private data, or track your online behavior (does this include cookies? probably). To help ensure maximum protection NAV 2004 will identify and block these threats ... ...working at its best.
Norton Antivirus is the only antivirus software i've ever used on my own PC's, in a previous job I had to endure Sophos, (and for those who are worried about NAV using up system resources, I'm pretty sure you've never used Sophos then!). I have now installed NAV on all my companies PC's.
The only downside with NAV is that 'out of the box' you only get one years subscription, having to subscribe after the first year, or upgrade ...
ROYALEXILE 09.05.2004
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Advantages: Best all round protection Disadvantages: Hog of system resources
Norton Anti-Virus 2004 is the latest is the world-acclaimed series of antivirus software packages from Symantec. Availible in both Standard and Professional Edition it can cater for most users. The Standard Edition can be picked up in most shops for around £37.00 whilst the Professional Edition is availible for around £50.00
The main reasons for purchasing the Professional Edition are:
The rebate for users of past verions is greater on the Professional ... ...The Graphical Interface of Norton is superb, allowing you to configure, enable or disable fuctions at the click of a button.
NAV 2004 is also capable of scanning inside of compressed file so it can repair an infected file without having to corrupt/quarantine/delete the entire file.
The main problem that many users have experienced with NAV 2004 is how it's 'real-time' scanning feature slows down the general performance of most systems. To many ...
l0st_0rigin 03.11.2003
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Advantages: good protection Disadvantages: riddled with errors & poor troubleshooting
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1) delete & reload Norton Anti-Virus
2) load Live Update manually
1) yes you do this - but it doesn't fix the problems
2) yes, you can download Live Updates manually from Symantec, but they are all about 4 Mgs & take around 20-30 mins to download.
Where Automatic Live Update (if it worked) takes a few mins.
Finally,
after much meandering through Symantec help pages, you finally find someway of contacting support & sending them your problems.
... ...email.
At last!.. you think.
But no,
all it gives you is yet another link to yet another Symantec troubleshooting page to yet another fix which yet again involves deleting & reloading the product.
And yes, of course, you've guessed it... it still doesn't work.
Now, to me having so many problem pages with all the numerous error messages seems to suggest an error-riddled product.
Perhaps under tested.
Perhaps released without thorough testing.
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Jonny_Narcissus 10.03.2004
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Advantages: always feel confident in its protection Disadvantages: can flag up problems that dont exist.
I have been using SYMANTEC Norton Antivirus 2004 for a few months now and after a few teething probelms getting it setup it has become an old friend that does its job in the background without ever needing any fuss or attention. Installation problems were simply solved by updating the latest downlaods from SYMANTEC's website and as soon as I had updated the program installed with no problems.
After installation I would recomend 1/2 hour just checking ... ...install some items of software Norton does flash up that is is malicious and is trying to alter the registry data. However if you exclude this program from the scan it accepts it and continues.
Functions are almost limitless but the best thing about this software package is that once installed you can just leave it to its own devices and you can feel confident that it will protect your system. I would highly recomment this piece of software as I ...
danny182 26.03.2004 (27.03.2004)
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Advantages: Stops all viruses Disadvantages: Stops everything else as well
...persuaded to buy the new Norton 2004 by a very keen technician at the Superstore when I took my laptop in for a "service". The main problem was that the computer kept hanging, it just stopped working for what seemed like ages.
Getting the new Norton installed was straight forward enough, and when I ran the programme, it found over 30 viruses. At last, I thought, problem solved.
That was just the beginning! The quarantined viruses were, in fact, ...
ihategp1 03.06.2004
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Advantages: It is good thing to protect you PC he founds 80-100% viruses Disadvantages: he just kill's you PC slows it very much
This atnivirus program is great but it have some disadvanteges it cost alitelbit, but it slows you system very much what to talk abaut persons who have very slow pc's. In my posision it is realy easy to use, it have a lot of functions, symantec programers very fast writes antidoted for viruses so your system will be protected maximaly (maybe so think every symantec programers). I don't use this anitvirus because i have better antivirus for my opinion ... ...This antivirus is realy recomendet for users but not for hight quality users or security specialist. I recomend it only for users who have some extra money and don't know what better to buy:). for me it is poor because scan time is very long and it use abaut 12-20% my pcu and sometimes it cause of my system shuting down.
PS don't watch at my mistakes. ...
sektorgaza 19.09.2004
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