Guest Bill Ridgeway Posted August 12, 2008 Posted August 12, 2008 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 Quote
Guest Kayman Posted August 12, 2008 Posted August 12, 2008 On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:56:10 +0100, Bill Ridgeway wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > 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.</span> 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 ). Quote
Guest RJK Posted September 10, 2008 Posted September 10, 2008 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" <info@1001solutions.co.uk> wrote in message news:%2361taJH$IHA.3396@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...<span style="color:blue"> >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 > </span> Quote
Guest ~BD~ Posted September 10, 2008 Posted September 10, 2008 "RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Os0brDzEJHA.224@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... <span style="color:blue"> > ...esp. when they're paid for the darned thing.</span> <snip> Hahaha! style_emoticons/ 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 -- Quote
Guest Howard Posted September 19, 2008 Posted September 19, 2008 Bill Ridgeway wrote:<span style="color:blue"> > 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 > > </span> 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 Quote
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