Symantec updates Norton products
Posted by Emil Protalinski on 13 September 2006 - 10:15 · 19 comments & 9174 views
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#1 Posted by Wiggz on 13 Sep 2006 - 10:49
- yay more bloat for everyone!
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#2 Posted by Enigma776 on 13 Sep 2006 - 11:47
- from the beta i tested this version they seemed to have cleaned it up a lot, but it still aint perfect.
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#3 Posted by Croquant on 13 Sep 2006 - 14:16
- "can now detect rootkits"
Yeah, right. It can detect OLD rootkits that nobody but script kiddies uses anymore. Get real, Symantec.
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#4 Posted by B0GiE on 13 Sep 2006 - 14:35
- SYMANTiC = ****E
Guaranteed to slow your PC down to a snails pace. Also guaranteed to not to uninstall correctly and bugger up your system.
A V O i D @ A L L C O S T S .
Go use NOD32 or Kaspersky if you have any sense.
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#5 Posted by GM_Axis on 13 Sep 2006 - 15:14
- ... or PC-cillin
^^that $hit rocks.
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#6 Posted by soldier1st on 13 Sep 2006 - 18:43
- pc-cillin has a tendancy to hang alot and not detect alot,go with nod32,symantec products would be great if they were easy to remove from the system and did not require NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation to be disabled for liveupdate as that is in the 16bit era and were not bloated products that give you fancy effects but slow the whole system down in the process.
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#6.1 Posted by briangw on 15 Sep 2006 - 03:13
- You obviously have an old PC or do not know what you are doing/talking about. Trend's PC-Cillan does not lock up, nor does it fail to detect items. IF it fails to detect items, so does Nod32 and Symantec. In fact, I had to submit a virus to Symantec because it failed to detect a virus that PC-Cillin did.
And if you think Pc-Cillin is bloated, you have not used the versions in the last two years.
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#7 Posted by jamescross91 on 13 Sep 2006 - 19:18
- I have Norton internet Security 2006 with norton ghost and norton go back which is great except on every pc except mine it has gone slowly must be my Pentium D 830, 1 gig ram and 500gig hd
i hope this new version is better on system performance becasue al of the odler version have seriously p****d me off.
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#8 Posted by Imaginos on 13 Sep 2006 - 22:38
- Oh good. Some people who have tried these latest ones. Since you didn't like these retail products, can you send them to me now that you've completed your exhaustive testing and reviewed them for us? And what rootkits did you test it with, Croquant, that you found it lacking?
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#9 Posted by Draganta on 14 Sep 2006 - 01:46
- Never had a problem with bloating. However its weekly scan was so slow that I set it for Monday's at 2AM. As a side note, I have always had Norton. Its a great product and the 2007 version has major improvements. NIS 2007 is lacking parental controls, pop-up blocking, ad blocking. It is being tested now and maybe released as a free upgrade. Who knows?
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#10 Posted by DJ Specs on 14 Sep 2006 - 06:04
- Norton has just got out of control.. I finally switched to NOD32 and never looked back.
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#11 Posted by soldier1st on 14 Sep 2006 - 06:51
- just waiting till nod32 releases there security suite so i can switch from zonealarm firewall+nod to just nod32 fully.symantec were good at one time but the bloat is what meeses them up.
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#11.1 Posted by DaViD_BRaNDoN on 14 Sep 2006 - 09:36
- Quote - soldier1st said @ #11just waiting till nod32 releases there security suite so i can switch from zonealarm firewall+nod to just nod32 fully.symantec were good at one time but the bloat is what meeses them up.
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#11.2 Posted by ozgeek on 16 Sep 2006 - 01:38
- I believe it will never happen. It is an antivirus program, not a security package program. I really don't want it to become like Norton. Since Windows XP and future versions of Windows has an adequate firewall. It does the job. Since I believe ESET believe in zero tolerate of system bloat, they won't include software that can be found in the OS.
NOD32 + WinFirewall + Win Defendor = Sufficent protection for the home computer.
Norton 2007 better than 2006? Proof it, symantec. Come on here with your lappy and install a copy of Norton on it in front of me. I am not going to let my system fall to your stupid tatics and bloated programs. Proof it that you improved on the products.
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#12 Posted by B0GiE on 15 Sep 2006 - 11:18
- Are NOD32 releasing a firewall? News to me. I just use windows firewall, and have found it totally adequate.
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#13 Posted by soldier1st on 15 Sep 2006 - 19:21
- yes there is a new version of nod32 coming out but there will be 2 versions.1 with just what nod32 has now and one with a firewall/antispam and the interface will be different.go here http://www.wilderssecurity.com/ for more info
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#14 Posted by Ashl on 15 Sep 2006 - 21:19
- If anyone uses it(the beta or whatever is available) is the performance any better than previous versions?
Symantec is touting better protection and system performance – something that is unusual from Norton. According to the security giant, the new versions use less memory, have a faster boot time, a faster scan speed, a faster UI launch speed and a faster download speed for updates. The product line is typically under much criticism at its ability to majorly slow down a computer and for how hard it can be to remove from a Windows system.