Norton Internet Security 2007

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Is Norton Internet Security 2007 needed with Vista? It appears Vista has a
number of security functions included.
 
I had it and then got a refund from Symantec. There are easier ways to
protect yourself. And cheaper. I've been a Norton's Systemworks user for a
long time, but I'm disappointed in their latest products.
 
I have the NIS 2007 and love it. Very fast, very powerful, caught several
phishing sites and, best of all, Norton is super experienced in the field.

I would recommend adding Norton Internet Security 2007 to Vista.

Dan
Sudbury, Canada
 
Antivirus is still needed. If you find NIS 2007 works for you then use it,
and ignore some of the other "advice" from people who are saying ditch it.
If it does not work, then they are other great alternatives out there such
as NOD32/AVG etc.
 
I tried Notron 07 and it seemed to slow my PC down. I am now trying Nod32
for 30 days free. To tell you the truth, I can't tell that it's even
running. It seems to have no impact on my system and I have every option
enabled. I hope that helps...I am running Vista Ultimate x64, AMD 3000+ and
4 gig RAM. I am going to wait for either Outpost or ZoneAlarm Pro Firewalls
or Comodo. None of which are Vista x64 yet.
 
NIS 2007 works perfectly for me. Does not slow down my system, and has
caught a few things that Onecare didn't.

I have removed my trial onecare and defender and work with Norton Internet
Security 2007 only.

Dan
Sudbury, Canada
 
Trying, but it seems on my VISTA pc, if I have NIS 2007 firewall on, even
though I've added a firewall rule for a range of local network addresses to
be able to connect to this PC and use the shared printer, I can't even ping
this IP address. I'm going to try adding to trusted sites, but it seems at
present, I can't ping the VISTA pc, from either of 2 other local network
boxes, if the NIS firewall is on. The rule used to work fine when all where
XP. Upgraded to latest NIS 2007 as advised by symantec, no change. Still
can't ping this box with the NIS firweall on. Anyone else sharing files or
printers and NIS firewall rules working ok on local network ?
 
Vista needs anti-vrus protection. Also, some critics say that Vista's
firewall isn't good enough. I tried Norton 2 years ago and got rid of it.
I've been using Trend Micro on my XP machines since then. They have good
support. Last month, they changed their program a bit which gave me some
troubles downloading their updates. The fix? I removed the old TM version and
downloaded the latest version. Now all is fine. I got a Vista machine this
week and I'm going Trend Micro.

oscar
 
I use also NIS 2007 on my notebook with vista home premium OS, but windows
security center does not recognize it. How to solve this?
Thanks
 
I use also NIS 2007 on my notebook with vista home premium OS, but windows
security center does not recognize it. How to solve this?
Thanks
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The retail version of Norton can play havoc with your pc. Uninstall it
using Norton's own uninstall tool
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039
and get a refund :)

As suggested on the site, you may wish to print out the directions before
proceeding.

If this doesn't work use this:
Revo Uninstaller Freeware - Remove unwanted programs and traces easily
http://www.revouninstaller.com/
and/or
RegSeeker
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
Then use NTREGOPT to compact the registry; Follow instructions.
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt

While Norton's removal tool usually gets the job done, you may also want to
go to:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html
and download a copy of winsockxpfix just in case. Rarely, the removal of
NIS breakes the networking components in XP to the point where internet
access is impossible. This little utility will fix it back up.

Concerning Windows Live One Care, a number of experts agree that this
application is on the bottom of the list as far as finding
virus\malware\trojan.

For the average home user there are better, more suitable alternatives
freely available.

Good luck :)
 
Kayman said:
The retail version of Norton can play havoc with your pc. Uninstall it
using Norton's own uninstall tool
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039
and get a refund :)
Click to expand...

Completely wrong information. There are literally millions of users using
Norton Internet Security with no issues, including
myself running on 4 computers.

As suggested on the site, you may wish to print out the directions before
proceeding.
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It is not necessary to uninstall perfectly good software that the OP has
already paid for.
No retail chain that I know of will accept software for a return.
If this doesn't work use this:
Revo Uninstaller Freeware - Remove unwanted programs and traces easily
http://www.revouninstaller.com/
and/or
RegSeeker
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
Click to expand...

Both are basically useless pieces of software.
Then use NTREGOPT to compact the registry; Follow instructions.
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt
Click to expand...

Why? The registry is not affected by whether the files are compacted
enough.

While Norton's removal tool usually gets the job done, you may also want
to
go to:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html
and download a copy of winsockxpfix just in case. Rarely, the removal of
NIS breakes the networking components in XP to the point where internet
access is impossible. This little utility will fix it back up.
Click to expand...

Please cite a credible source for your claim...
Concerning Windows Live One Care, a number of experts agree that this
application is on the bottom of the list as far as finding
virus\malware\trojan.
Click to expand...

You would have to dig a very deep hole to find where on the list Live
OneCare is.
It is worse than useless.

For the average home user there are better, more suitable alternatives
freely available.
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Then why is Norton the #1 best seller, selling more than "ALL OTHERS*
combined?
Why is it used by ISPs, banks, city, state and federal governments, all
branches of the military,
universities, etc?

There is simply nothing on the market that can compare with Norton.

Honu
 
Hertz_Donut said:
Completely wrong information. There are literally millions of users
using Norton Internet Security with no issues, including
myself running on 4 computers.
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While there are certainly millions of computers running NIS, that can be
said for any software, good *OR* bad. Having been active in newsgroups
for a lot of years, I can tell you that Norton (and Symantec) software
has in recent years clearly become a leader in complaints about
"bloatware" and performance. My personal experience with NAV goes back
about 10+ years and I can say from personal experience that over the
past 6 years, it has become more and more of a resource drain. One year,
an attempt at an upgrade actually trashed my entire setup and I had to
rebuild from scratch.

I suspect that Norton/Symantec software runs great if you have the
latest and greatest hardware and lots of memory. However, what happens
to the typical user is that every year's upgrade significantly increases
the resources demanded by the applications and dramatically slows down
the overall performance.

--

Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services
 
My advice to anyone running any Norton product is to remove it. Norton
causes more problems than it solves; I won't have it anywhere near my PC.

--
John Barnett MVP
Associate Expert
Windows - Shell/User

Web: http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org
Web: http://vistasupport.mvps.org

The information in this mail/post is supplied "as is". No warranty of any
kind, either expressed or implied, is made in relation to the accuracy,
reliability or content of this mail/post. The Author shall not be liable for
any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the
use of, or inability to use, information or opinions expressed in this
mail/post..
 
Kayman said:
The retail version of Norton can play havoc with your pc. Uninstall it
using Norton's own uninstall tool
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2005033108162039
and get a refund :)

As suggested on the site, you may wish to print out the directions before
proceeding.

If this doesn't work use this:
Revo Uninstaller Freeware - Remove unwanted programs and traces easily
http://www.revouninstaller.com/
and/or
RegSeeker
http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm
Then use NTREGOPT to compact the registry; Follow instructions.
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt

While Norton's removal tool usually gets the job done, you may also want to
go to:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html
and download a copy of winsockxpfix just in case. Rarely, the removal of
NIS breakes the networking components in XP to the point where internet
access is impossible. This little utility will fix it back up.

Concerning Windows Live One Care, a number of experts agree that this
application is on the bottom of the list as far as finding
virus\malware\trojan.

For the average home user there are better, more suitable alternatives
freely available.

Good luck :)
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Total crap! Norton works fine. The only PC I took it off of was my
older XP desktop--NIS2007 kept the hard drive busy for many minutes
after bootup, making opening programs a waiting game. It's running on
our 2 Vista laptops with no such hard drive activity or any other
anomolies.
 
John said:
My advice to anyone running any Norton product is to remove it. Norton
causes more problems than it solves; I won't have it anywhere near my PC.
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total BS. You are biased, for whatever reason, perhaps a bad experience
with a norton product. NIS2007 works fine.
 
David said:
total BS. You are biased, for whatever reason, perhaps a bad experience
with a norton product. NIS2007 works fine.
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It is a waste of time. He has not used the product for years, by his own
admission, and knows nothing of it, yet
still preaches his hatred of it based on dated and irrelevant information.

Honu
 
As a Journalist I am regularly sent copies of Norton products. I am not
biased neither have I had a bad experience. Norton is simply a system hogger
and I will repeat what I said in my original post 'Norton causes more
problems than it solves.' With Windows 95/98/ME Norton products were great.
Since XP they have, sadly, gone down hill.

--
John Barnett MVP
Associate Expert
Windows - Shell/User

Web: http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org
Web: http://vistasupport.mvps.org

The information in this mail/post is supplied "as is". No warranty of any
kind, either expressed or implied, is made in relation to the accuracy,
reliability or content of this mail/post. The Author shall not be liable for
any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the
use of, or inability to use, information or opinions expressed in this
mail/post..
 
John said:
As a Journalist I am regularly sent copies of Norton products. I am
not biased neither have I had a bad experience. Norton is simply a
system hogger and I will repeat what I said in my original post
'Norton causes more problems than it solves.' With Windows 95/98/ME
Norton products were great. Since XP they have, sadly, gone down hill.
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such a hog that on the 2 vista machines i run it on it is totally
unnoticeable. it doesn't slow down start up, nor slow down anything
during my use of the machine. I've run both machines with no virus
scanner, with mcafee, AVG, and NIS2007. running with NO virus scanner
and with NIS2007 I've never seen any difference in response. I can't
say that about NIS2007 on XP-now THAT is a bad combo. I thought AVG
was a joke, considering how some people here rave about it. I got rid
of it as soon as I was able to get NIS2007 on sale at Costco.

Dave
 
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