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Title: Norton Internet Security 2006
Post by: Tongy on August 26, 2006, 14:44:44 PM
Anyone else think Norton Internet Security is overpriced, bloated popup riddled crap? TBH the only decent package that Symantec make is Ghost.

Cheers
Tongy
Title: Re:Norton Internet Security 2006
Post by: Serious on August 27, 2006, 00:20:26 AM
Wouldnt touch it with a barge pole even if its a freebie ;)

Have had far less problem with AVG free edition and ZoneAlarm.
Title: Norton Internet Security 2006
Post by: Badabing on August 28, 2006, 13:33:01 PM
Quote from: TongyNorton Internet Security

*shudder*

utterly, utterly useless, so useless in fact that i often disabled it on PCs i used, hence defeating the purpose of having such software on to start off with...
Title: Re:Norton Internet Security 2006
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on August 28, 2006, 14:40:49 PM
Yup the same here. Bloated sh*te that crashes at the first mention of a virus.
Title: Re:Norton Internet Security 2006
Post by: brummie on August 28, 2006, 14:49:49 PM
im with the others.

total crap that should have died out by now.

Title: Norton Internet Security 2006
Post by: kwindu on August 28, 2006, 14:51:36 PM
im probably in the minority here but i think Nortons alright
ive had no problems with it at all
Title: Norton Internet Security 2006
Post by: Tongy on August 28, 2006, 19:01:23 PM
Oh good, I thought I was in a minority.

I admit to advising any of my customers to remove it and have it replaced with something good/free. It frequently misses viruses that other scanners catch, spam filter is average and there is about nothing it does well. People have a go at M$ for writing rubbish software, when really its the tossers who put stuff on top that are to blame.

Ghost is an excellent program but it was bought...

Cheers
Tongy
Title: Norton Internet Security 2006
Post by: Norphy on August 28, 2006, 20:11:53 PM
In all fairness, Symantec branded stuff (ie their Enterprise line) is generally quite good. Its just that their home user stuff (Anything with Peter Nortons face on it) is utter crap.

That said, that rule seems to apply to a lot of software companies, McAfee included.
Title: Norton Internet Security 2006
Post by: BigSoy on August 29, 2006, 09:02:43 AM
Quote from: TongyOh good, I thought I was in a minority.

I admit to advising any of my customers to remove it and have it replaced with something good/free. It frequently misses viruses that other scanners catch, spam filter is average and there is about nothing it does well. People have a go at M$ for writing rubbish software, when really its the tossers who put stuff on top that are to blame.

Ghost is an excellent program but it was bought...

Cheers
Tongy

Think that does let MS off the hook a bit easily there - programming for Windows requires its own special kind of crack tbh, specially apps that you expect to run transparently while everything else is going on.