Norton Anti-Virus 2004 External Beta Begins
Posted by Tom Warren on 27 May 2003 - 17:20 · 52 comments & 5689 views
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#1 Posted by winxp2003 on 27 May 2003 - 17:29
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#2 Posted by Riccionetxp on 27 May 2003 - 17:33
- I'm BetaTester of Symantec !
I have Norton AntiVirus 2004 ET #1
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#3 Posted by nero1765 on 27 May 2003 - 17:36
- Is this a joke?
Apparently, Symantec is implementing the cool new graffiti interface
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#4 Posted by Fubar on 27 May 2003 - 17:36
- heh lets hope its better than the last lot........... norton 2003 used so much ram and cpu on my xp machine i got rid of it and started using PCCillian :/
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#5 Posted by Darkness2k on 27 May 2003 - 17:37
- lol that auto-run made me laugh..
If thats the real picture from the beta... even Microsoft spend time on making everything look professional for abeta, not just cross out XP and write Longhorn on top -
#5.1 Posted by creamhackered on 27 May 2003 - 17:39
- Check out the 3 degrees installer then
They all do it for beta applications @ some point
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#5.2 Posted by Darkness2k on 27 May 2003 - 17:40
- lol, i'll have to have a look at that then
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#5.3 Posted by benjeeeboy on 02 Jul 2003 - 17:50
- Its not actually a beta too. Even though its meant to stay inside MS, it looks nice.
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#6 Posted by BuG on 27 May 2003 - 17:37
- bah no activation that sux grrr
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#7 Posted by Darkness2k on 27 May 2003 - 17:38
- I'll wait for the Symantec Antivirus releases..
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#8 Posted by Riccionetxp on 27 May 2003 - 17:42
- there are a lot bug in AntiVirus 2004 ET #1....
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#9 Posted by devilotX on 27 May 2003 - 17:44
- Oh gag... more activation, at least this "looks" like just a serial # not like WPA
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#10 Posted by kemical on 27 May 2003 - 17:45
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#11 Posted by leebobs on 27 May 2003 - 17:56
- Activation.... hmm... Thats me sticking to 2003
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#11.2 Posted by jkuy9 on 27 May 2003 - 18:50
- no it doesnt. It has registration not activation. Until now Symantec has not had any anti-piracy measures in its consumer software.
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#12 Posted by Vader76 on 27 May 2003 - 17:57
- Do they need release one every year? Or is this a money grab.
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#12.1 Posted by Daffy_Duck on 28 May 2003 - 14:26
- It's called capitalism. Look it up.
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#13 Posted by empty on 27 May 2003 - 18:03
- HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO USE A WAREZ'D COPY IF IT NEEDS ACTIVATION. STUPID INSENSITIVE SYMANTEC
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#14 Posted by ThunderRiver on 27 May 2003 - 18:04
- Haha.. I love that AutoRun screen hahha.
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#15 Posted by rseiler on 27 May 2003 - 18:09
- Folks, uh, that AutoRun casualness is something you see in the first beta...maybe subsequent betas, but obviously not the final product. It's sometimes done in betas when work on the trivial stuff like opening graphics hasn't been done yet in favor of working on the guts of the program first.
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#16 Posted by darkmatter on 27 May 2003 - 18:09
- I wish they would update the interface
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#17 Posted by Gott on 27 May 2003 - 18:44
- Great ... one of the world's worst virus scanners NOW WITH PRODUCT ACTIVATION
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#17.1 Posted by Night Prowler on 27 May 2003 - 21:26
- Why would make comment like that? If you were driving a SL450 and I made a comment hat the SL40 was the worlds worst car then you would want to know why, especially if you've had owned it for several years and have had absolutely no problems with it. You might think I'm some sort of idiot for stating that.
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#17.2 Posted by Dale on 28 May 2003 - 01:33
- if its sooo bad.. why do you bother to even get it?... lol..
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#18 Posted by hjimmy on 27 May 2003 - 18:52
- ggyy, i hate product activation...
is there a volume licence copy?
but i guess not cuz they got coporate version but corporate version always gives me problem 
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#19 Posted by
Dazzla on 27 May 2003 - 20:00
- Oh my god, I can't believe people are complaing that they can't steal it! That's god damn pathetic!
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#20 Posted by djze on 27 May 2003 - 21:08
- NAV gets worse every year
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#21 Posted by mipra on 27 May 2003 - 21:40
- hmm..I dont see anything new in the interface itself...anything new in the engine?
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#22 Posted by Pzaga on 27 May 2003 - 21:59
- That auto-run screenie is just hilarious.
I don't think there's anything new in the engine, probably just tweaks and fixes.
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#23 Posted by DrunkenMaster on 28 May 2003 - 01:01
- LOL. I'm still using the 2002 I bought. Unintstall and re-install. Then the registration gets extended. Mine expires in Mid-2004. What do I care... I get the AV updates. I don't care about the updated anti-virus engine which will probably run slower anyways.
Vader76> Its both and update AND a money grab IMO. The interface doesn't change so noobs don't revolt. As I said above, people get suckered into buying new versions because the "license expired". That's what the activation is for I guess. Forces more people to upgade the program EVERY year. -
#23.1 Posted by ben_b on 28 May 2003 - 02:04
- Thanks for that little tip. I will be having to do that oh about mid summer when my subscription runs out. I think that I will be buying the 2004 version when it comes out though, or maybe I'll wait tell 2005 or 2006 version so I can run it on longhorn and their bond to add some stuff with a new operating system out.
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#24 Posted by Dale on 28 May 2003 - 01:23
- i think that the Spyware Scanning will be useful.. i hope they will make it easier to patch the MSN Messenger Scanning.. so they can update it when there is a new version of MSN Messenger
and of course there isn't anything "that new" its in beta testing lol
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#25 Posted by Quick Reply on 28 May 2003 - 03:49
- I'm LMFAO at that autorun screen.
I'm really glad that Symantec is introducing new features, but that interface is horrid! Apart from my personal dislike of skins, they shouldn't be using IE to display it's interface because it makes it so slooooow!
And please stop whining about activation, for god sakes, you've got to be pretty stupid to warez an antivirus, because a virus could be included in the iso for all you know
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#26 Posted by Khujo on 28 May 2003 - 03:49
- (cough)Symantec AV Corporate Edition(cough)
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#27 Posted by badall on 28 May 2003 - 09:16
- i like the spyware and dialer blocker idea
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#28 Posted by fb- on 28 May 2003 - 13:01
- Go for the corporate version. No activation, no subscriptions.
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#28.1 Posted by rseiler on 29 May 2003 - 06:30
- Not for home/standalone machines you shouldn't. It's several generations behind; it doesn't even handle email!
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#28.2 Posted by wd40 on 02 Jul 2003 - 05:00
- Corp version is way better than that cheesy home edition. Who cares about e-mail thing. Corp will catch anything. That's just a "feature" of the home edition to make it more appealing to home users. So should all companies use the home version for their computers because of the email "feature"? Don't think so.
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#29 Posted by ben_b on 28 May 2003 - 14:17
- Where can I sign up for this Beta testing?
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#30 Posted by Webgraph on 29 May 2003 - 01:12
- Not the activation crap! Damn that Microsoft and their ideas! Also, when will they ever consider protecting ICQ against these attacks. If you're a Symantec beta tester, please tell them to implement ICQ protection because ICQ's the most popular IM program out there!
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#31 Posted by pHuzi0n on 02 Jul 2003 - 04:03
- What's that VS? It looks very similar to AikonXP.
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#32 Posted by Mgz on 02 Jul 2003 - 06:00
- who cares ? I'm using Corporate Edition 8.0 ,let hope CE 9.0 will be even better (CE ROCKS)
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#33 Posted by Phillip on 02 Jul 2003 - 08:56
- the autorun...lol
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#34 Posted by chorpeac on 02 Jul 2003 - 13:03
- Looks pretty good. I like the spyware feature. I have been using Symantec for a while and I feel it is a pretty solid product!
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#35 Posted by Mr. Black on 02 Jul 2003 - 16:55
- Well I guess I'm going to have to finally buy NAV 2K4 instead of pirate it this time.
That sux0rz.
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#36 Posted by StianHF25 on 26 Jul 2003 - 15:57
- Just tried to download the latest beta, but Symantec has closed the beta run. I'll guess it hits the streets soon... does anybody know?
Thanks to JnCoKiLLa we've managed to take a sneak peek at Symantecs up and coming NAV2004. The most obvious changes are noted above but currently there is no support for MSN Messenger 6. Maybe Symantec will keep up to date and update it's client during the beta phase to ammend this.
Interestingly for all, Symantec are adding "Product Activation" to NAV2004. Some might say too little too late but it seems one of the top anti-virus companies is following in the path of Microsoft. Expect a lot of software to follow this step from now on.
Enjoy the NAV2004 screenshots and don't expect the interface to change too much from now and when it's released later this year.
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