Norton Internet Security upgrade

[Bill Ridgeway]

I have Norton Internet Security 2007 which invited me to take a free upgrade
to NIS2008. I thought keeping NIS up-to-date would be a good thing to do so
took the upgrade. After a lot of preparatory work and downloading it
started to install but failed (I tried twice). That left me without NIS so
I then had to use the Norton uninstall tool, install NIS2007, and download
and install the various updates. All this took several hours.

I would suggest you think twice before accepting this upgrade.

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway

 

[Kayman]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:56:10 +0100, Bill Ridgeway wrote:

> I have Norton Internet Security 2007 which invited me to take a free upgrade
> to NIS2008. I thought keeping NIS up-to-date would be a good thing to do so
> took the upgrade. After a lot of preparatory work and downloading it
> started to install but failed (I tried twice). That left me without NIS so
> I then had to use the Norton uninstall tool, install NIS2007, and download
> and install the various updates. All this took several hours.
>
> I would suggest you think twice before accepting this upgrade.

A number of experts agree that the *retail* AV version of McAfee, Norton
and Trend Micro has become cumbersome and bloated for the average user and
can play havoc with your PC.

There are products on the market with equal or better test results than
Symantec's products, consuming less resources at a lower price (*even free
ones*).

 

[RJK]

I get some horrified looks from people when I tell them Norton has to "go"
!!
....esp. when they're paid for the darned thing.
Once or twice, when faced with objections, it got to the point where either
Norton went, or I did !
....up until now - the choice has been to dump Norton

regards, Richard


"Bill Ridgeway" wrote in message
news:%2361taJH$IHA.3396@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>I have Norton Internet Security 2007 which invited me to take a free
>upgrade to NIS2008. I thought keeping NIS up-to-date would be a good thing
>to do so took the upgrade. After a lot of preparatory work and downloading
>it started to install but failed (I tried twice). That left me without NIS
>so I then had to use the Norton uninstall tool, install NIS2007, and
>download and install the various updates. All this took several hours.
>
> I would suggest you think twice before accepting this upgrade.
>
> Regards.
>
> Bill Ridgeway
>

 

[~BD~]

"RJK" wrote in message news:Os0brDzEJHA.224@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

> ...esp. when they're paid for the darned thing.



Hahaha!

Are these customers or friends/acquaintances, Richard?

Regardless, surely Symantec isn't paying *them* to instal Norton on their computers!

Sorry, couldn't help it! I'm sure it was just a typo - i.e. they'Ve

Dave

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[Howard]

Bill Ridgeway wrote:
> I have Norton Internet Security 2007 which invited me to take a free upgrade
> to NIS2008. I thought keeping NIS up-to-date would be a good thing to do so
> took the upgrade. After a lot of preparatory work and downloading it
> started to install but failed (I tried twice). That left me without NIS so
> I then had to use the Norton uninstall tool, install NIS2007, and download
> and install the various updates. All this took several hours.
>
> I would suggest you think twice before accepting this upgrade.
>
> Regards.
>
> Bill Ridgeway
>
>
You might want to wait and check out Norton Internet Security 2009 as it
becomes available. I've used Norton Internet Security for years and will
say that it has some serious slowness in the application but I believe
that if you do a default install with out parental control and some of
the other less than useful parts and pieces, it's a very good program at
catching potential viruses. The 2009 version is a lot tighter code and
run much faster.
Howard