Norton 360 on Vista Dell - good or bad?

Norton anti-virus = bad... Ben Myers

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:18:08 GMT, "John Smith" <*@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>A friend just purchased a new Dell desktop running on Vista and whilst
>ordering it online I noticed, in the UK anyhow, the AV option did not
>include Norton 360 as a purchase option.
>
>My friend has asked me to recommend a good AV product and I was initially
>going to suggest Norton 360 to combine AV and spyware detection but I have
>since read numerous posts online about problems with Norton 360 from slowing
>down PCs through blocking of www sites to install/uninstall nightmares. I
>now wonder if Dell are not offering it because of these such problems?
>
>I am leaning towards suggesting NIS 2007 instead now.
>
>Positive thoughts and suggestions welcome.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>J.
>

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:19:44 -0400, Ben Myers
<> wrote:

>Norton anti-virus = bad... Ben Myers
>

Correction.... Norton = bad !!

Well, yes, in a more general sense. If Peter Norton were dead, he would be
turning over in his grave. I think he is still alive and well, counting his
money from the use of his good name plastered onto inferior products. Someone
ought to interview him and ask him what he thinks... Ben Myers

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:24:32 -0500, RnR <> wrote:

>On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:19:44 -0400, Ben Myers
><> wrote:
>
>>Norton anti-virus = bad... Ben Myers
>>
>
>Correction.... Norton = bad !!

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:33:20 -0400, Ben Myers
<> wrote:

>Well, yes, in a more general sense. If Peter Norton were dead, he would be
>turning over in his grave. I think he is still alive and well, counting his
>money from the use of his good name plastered onto inferior products. Someone
>ought to interview him and ask him what he thinks... Ben Myers
>

I agree. It's ashame to see a good name/software ruined, at least in
the technical sense. I suppose it's more popular now than ever
because of marketing but too often it's been done in by technically
better software.

Wow! Thanks all. I was not expecting so many replies nor so many anti Norton
comments. Not one post has a good thing to say about Norton let alone Norton
360.

On my own PCs my NIS 2006 ran out last week and I have not bothered to renew
the subscription mostly because I am just fed up with my PCs being so darn
slow. Also, downloaded a big update for NIS 2006 on my laptop a few weeks
ago and the next time I booted the PC it just would not boot, could not do
any kind of repair and had to rebuild the PC from scratch.

I will look into the suggested products.

J.




"RnR" <> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:33:20 -0400, Ben Myers
> <> wrote:
>
>>Well, yes, in a more general sense. If Peter Norton were dead, he would
>>be
>>turning over in his grave. I think he is still alive and well, counting
>>his
>>money from the use of his good name plastered onto inferior products.
>>Someone
>>ought to interview him and ask him what he thinks... Ben Myers
>>
>
> I agree. It's ashame to see a good name/software ruined, at least in
> the technical sense. I suppose it's more popular now than ever
> because of marketing but too often it's been done in by technically
> better software.