Comments on: Norton 360 Review

By: locksmith nyc

locksmith nyc — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:32:01 +0000

Norton 360 was never meant to clean up the registry. It doesn’t claim to. Since everyone has their own opinion as to what should be cleaned out and what should not it’s best to get a program just for that purpose that works for you.

By: Norton 360 user

Norton 360 user — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:28:10 +0000

I get Norton 360 from that website as there’s always some coupon available. No problems here.

By: Jessica Newman

Jessica Newman — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:30:04 +0000

For you norton 360 haters.. I love it… it has been nothing but good to me. It’s simple and easy.. and it does its job. It doent lag my computer. I love it and I going to keep purchasing it for along time..

By: norton antivirus review

norton antivirus review — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:26:56 +0000

For two years now, somehow I felt confident with the protection and security Norton antivirus is giving to my computers. That is why I kept on reading Norton antivirus review to check out the latest updates about it.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 06:47:40 +0000

I have been Using Norton 360 for 4 Years. Could not be happier! I work as a tech in a computer shop where we do things like virus, malware, and spyware removal and I have never worked on an infected machine that has norton 360 installed on it. A SUPERB Product

By: martista

martista — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:35:42 +0000

I’ve had Norton 360 for going on my 2nd year/subscription and I have to say that last year I was pretty happy with it. This years upgrade I did, is a misery on both my desktop and laptop. While I am 99% virus free most of the time, its really only because it hates Firefox, it runs scans and updates constantly even though I have it set up not to. It finds the same cookie several times a day. Usually during the “idle time system scan” that runs while I’m using the computer. Often things run so slow that I fel I could walk there faster.

I use the Adobe suite which in itself uses up tons of memory that Norton seems to think is for it. I am beginning to feel like I should get one computer for Norton to run on and another to do my work on.

Have been a Norton client since I’ve been using computers and now it slows everything down SO much that I’m looking for something that I can work with. Literally.

By: תכשיטים

תכשיטים — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:29:10 +0000

I had a Symantec anti-virus program a few years ago and had a lot of trouble with it. I decided to give it another try. I had just reformated my hard drive and had my computer working great–and then I loaded 360 and it’s a load itself. I slowed everything to a crawl. I will now test their 60 day satisfaction gaurantee and see how that works! Why was the article so positve, but the majority of the comments are negative? Umm, makes one wonder…

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By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:57:56 +0000

Angela you should understand that no antivirus solution is 100% perfect including Norton 360 but also the solution that you bought.

By: AngelaC

AngelaC — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:56:33 +0000

After having Norton 360 installed for approximately the last 2.5 years I was really disappointed that it had allowed the Personal AV virus to infiltrate my PC. I am not very techie but after running the Norton comprehensive scan several times it did not acknowledge this virus at all. I have had to purchase additional spyware anti virus software which did acknowledge and remove the virus, this was cheaper than paying an additional fee to Norton to have the virus removed. I invested alot of trust that Norton would keep me safe, will I be renewing my subscription….. think this is very doubtful?

By: wabbity1

wabbity1 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:24:46 +0000

A relative has this installed on their computer, and I have the misfortune
of being the primary tech support for this trash.

Doing backups via another program, and thus want to turn off the
feature within 360? Despite having done so, it (still) attempts to
schedule and perform backups on occasion.

I made the mistake of upgrading the installation. Despite a pledge
that it would preserve the current settings, it wiped everything
and I had to reconfigure from scratch.

Inopportune virus scans are very slow to shut down once they have
been triggered, taking -many- minutes to do so.

I would not recommend Norton AV products to anyone- even if they
were free (which they’re not).

By: janiesmiling

janiesmiling — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:13:04 +0000

personally, i like intenet security 2009 from bitdefender. it’s on the 2nd place accolrding to pcworld: http://www.pcworld.com/article/158157/top_internet_security_suites_paying_for_protection.html. why i like it: because of two disting module it has: im encryption and Lapton mode. and my vista and bitdefender work together just fine.
good luck and stay protected!

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:40:16 +0000

Thanks Dante and Robert. Ghacks is basically a one-man show with some great guest authors from all over the world helping out. I do not have a big lab like the PC magazines or big tech sites have. Just a few computers, that’s it. That’s why I never talk about the effectiveness of AV software for instance. I cannot test it properly and I know my readers look for these information elsewhere (like I do myself). This is not going to change and I’m pretty happy that I do not have to run some boring tests in a lab all day.

I wanted to see if Norton products were still the resource hungry system slowing applications they were in the past or not and my result is that they are not. I know a lot of users who do not want to install Norton because of their experience with their products in the past.

By: Doc

Doc — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:37:27 +0000

@Brian: AV products are a waste.

You won’t say that after spending 50+ hours trying to remove Conficker from your computer. Trust me, I work in an office whose manager had the same “AV products are a waste” and had to remove MIRC bots, Conficker, Downadup, and a dozen other viruses from the server, client computers, THUMBDRIVES, and REMOVABLE HDs…run a decent AV program, keep it up to date, and protect your data!

By: DanTe

DanTe — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:36:11 +0000

I’ve been reading Ghacks for a long time. And I haven’t noticed Martin do anything underhanded as of yet. So, yeah, I trust his posts even though I totally disagree on giving Norton another chance to burn me.

The one weakness of Ghacks appears to be a lack of test machines and comprehensive testing facilities. But than I read Ghacks as a niche news to see things that I might miss. And I’ve seen a few on here which proved useful to me. For deep testing, I usually go elsewhere, as there are plenty of test sites, or do my own.

By: Robert Palmar

Robert Palmar — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:34:58 +0000

The article was excellent fulfilling its intended purpose
of providing an overview of where Norton stands
these days addressing concerns users have.

It does appear Norton has attempted with some success
to correct its reputation for bloated software which was more
like an infection in itself in the distant past I used Norton products.

Personally, I have moved on from such suites,
however for those so inclined maybe Norton
is worth a second look based on Martin’s
impressions which can be trusted.

By: Votre

Votre — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:27:11 +0000

@Martin

Your article “did not try to be a complete review?”

A “complete’ review, eh?

Sorry we all missed that bit of ‘fine print’, but to be perfectly frank – your article is not a review at all. It’s little more than a reworked product description and feature list.

I don’t doubt your intention. I’m sure you meant well. But if you’re going to do a “review” like this one, save yourself some effort and just give us the pointer to the product’s webpage or whitepaper. Because we can get pretty much the exact same writeup there.

By: Rush

Rush — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:37:55 +0000

Yeah, I’ve been a Norton hater for years now. Same reasons as everyone else pretty much. Slow, bulky and removal is like Spiderman trying to pull of Venom. Same situation also. Burned several times a long time ago and never got over it. Don’t know that I will. Although I am open to it. I’ve seen many applications revolutionized between one version and another.
Since that time I have become a Kaspersky person. I love Avira also and recommend it to any customers or friends who would prefer not to have to pay for an A/V.
I am one of those that is willing to pay for an Internet Security Suite that I can trust and more importantly, tell customers that I trust it enough to use it myself. For the last couple years I’ve been buying protection for around 20 systems a year. All Kaspersky Internet Security.
I’ve talked a lot of people out of Norton in that time. I’ve heard people who will swear by it and the changes that have been made to it. Honestly, I’ve wondered but not enough to give them another chance.
I was really surprised to see it reviewed here. I’m glad you did though because I respect your reviews probably more than anyone elses.
My questions are fairly simple.
You chose to pretty much to only review boot time, interface and settings.
Did you do any detection testing or intrusion testing?
What kind of resources is it using in the background and during active scanning?
Does it protect against ARP spoofing/ poisoning?
Most importantly, did it change your mind enough that if you were going to buy an Internet Security Suite, you would choose that one?

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:58:11 +0000

Brian I uninstalled it twice and there were not any problems both times. This article did not try to be a complete review. I was not paid.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:49:27 +0000

No mention of uninstall in the article. Another huge complaint is that the product leaves alot of things behind (files and registry entries).

I agree with the other posters before me. AV products are a waste. Practicing safe computing and keeping your OS up to date should be all you need. If you feel better with something installed, there are many free alternatives.