RSSSymantec Releases Norton 360
By Ed Oswald | Published February 27, 2007, 1:03 PM
Symantec on Monday introduced Norton 360, its new standard security suite, replacing the aging Norton Internet Security product.
Formerly known as "Genesis," Norton 360 is intended to compete with offerings from McAfee and Microsoft. Like OneCare, the application contains a suite of products that traditionally had been sold separately by the antivirus makers.
Symantec says that Norton 360 offers protection across five different categories, for example: PC security will include protection against virus, spyware, and hackers, as well as real-time detection of new threats and rootkit removal functionality.
Transactions of personal information will be protected through anti-phishing protection, which will auto-detect new phishing sites as well as alert users of known sites when they are visited. A feature known as Web Site Authentication will ensure a user is visiting a commonly phished brand's actual site.
Backup and restore functionality is now available, allowing the user to store up to 2GB of data in an online storage area. The software will auto-detect new files and automatically back them up during times when the computer is idle. Users can also select to backup to traditional media.
PC Tuneup will allow consumers to clear their computers of unnecessary files and defragment hard drives for better performance. Like backup and restore, these processes would occur during idle time.
Finally, Norton 360 will offer integrated support to address issues, as well as offer optional anti-spam and parental controls at no cost.
"People today use their computers for much more than work or storing documents," Symantec Consumer Business chief Enrique Salem said. "Norton 360 was created with these activities in mind."
Norton 360 will be available for purchase immediately through the Symantec website, and in retail locations next month. The retail price would be $79.99 USD, the company said. Upgrade options for Norton Internet Security customers will also be offered.
I bought Norton 360 and installed it on my nice new machine, thinking I was doing the right thing.. however, after installing it, it started to slowly kill my machine, it would shut down IE as I was running IE7 with the Google Tool Bar, so I removed that, then it would come up with useless JavaScript (blank) errors, so I tried uninstalling it, nope didn't fix a damn thing..
After an hour on the phone to their "technical" support (IN INDIA) with no results and them telling me that it was a "coinsidence" that my computer was crashing.. And being told that Norton does NOT effect any program running (and somehow magically corrupted IE7 because of a phishing filter problem and decided to kill my JavaScript functions - inc Windows Explorer).. I demanded a refund.. I had to reformat my machine and I'm STILL trying to fix the problems that it had caused!!
I have heard other bad reviews since my problem and I do NOT recommend anyone uses Norton as it's obviously had no user testing before they decided to put it out on the market, now my source of income has come to a complete hault and it's a lot of stress and hard work to get everything back up to how it's supposed to be.
Not happy at all.
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|"..bringing the company back into close competition with McAfee and Microsoft." Competing for what, the worst of the worst? Give me a break. The only reason Norton products have *any* following whatsoever is because they have lots of retail shelf space, and with that name recognition. And quite simply the non-technical retail-buying public doesn't know any better.
Norton and McAfee are among the worst antivirus products on the market. I have killed Norton Antivirus on many a client computer and will continue to do so. Thank goodness for Norton Killer and similar utilities to kill off Norton junkware.
AVG and NOD32 are much better choices. Norton products do nothing by suck the performance out of your PC. I suppose back in the early days when Peter Norton's face was on the box it might have been a contender, but those days are long gone.
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|As normal,those who do all the b****ing, never gave the product an install. Go get a 30 day trial and then do your b****ing. This is an excellent program. It runs silently in the background providing everything from defrag to ad blocking, to antispam for email, to antiphishing protection, to on and on. You will start hearing some good things soon from those that "actually" tried it..
Oh by the way, it does take up 4% of my resources (not a bad trade off)
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|360 degrees of bloat and fancy graphics!
I'll stick to NOD32, thanks.
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|lmfao - aye to that.
Actually, I only laugh at it since I use Linux - no need for firewalls or antivirus.
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|How many of you have tried this product? Symantec has reengineered their 2007 line to use a lot less system resources. It is a much better product than what they've released the past few years.
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|I don't care. I abandoned symantec for bloat, why should I go back, and pay for it?
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|Now if Norton can only develop a product that does not hog your PC and render it useless.
Once Norton is installed it takes over..
For me the best anti virus is still AVG. Light on memory useage and does not take over the PC.
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|Go ahead bog down your pc with useless processes running in the background taking up valuable memory and resources and causing the pc to crash
I myself was a fan of NAV but all my pc used to ever do is crash usually requiring windows to be reinstalled that’s why I use Panda or KAV
susport Shareware... if you like it you buy it
if you don't then bin it
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|"bringing the company back into close competition with McAfee and Microsoft."
With a product that costs ~100% more than the other two? Yep, that's really close competition.
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|Are they copying product names from Microsoft now?
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|Norton AV is and has always been crappy. I expect no less from this one ;|
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|exactly, you've just get MORE crappienes ;))
so do not expect less... you will get more for the same ammount of money, great =D
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|"Norton AV is and has always been crappy. I expect no less from this one ;|"
Nah, that's not entirely true. I mean come on, their Enterprise 2002 products were pretty nice at the time--heh :)
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