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sean — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:23:27 -0000

hi ive had norton 360 for a few months now but the last few months its been skipping a few things on the scan like its been saying incomplete-skipped can anyone help me out on this i dont know if ive done somthink to change settings or somthink but all i know that its not working and i paid £60 for it but really im starting to think it was a waste of money so please can someone help me out thanks.

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Robert — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:32:10 -0000

I had better luck with the Mcafee security suite. It seems to work more smoothly, which means it does the job, I think, but doesn't get in my face. And when it does its update thing it makes a nice 'dingggggg'.

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bobcaswell — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:44:50 -0000

Robert,

Let us know what you find!

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Robert — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:08:59 -0000

Well I was at Future Shop the other day and they were practically giving away Internet Security 2008 and Mcafee Suite so now I can just try these out and see which I prefer.

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bobcaswell — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:45:02 -0000

Wow, Robert, it's one year since I posted this... And yet, Norton products still seem confusing and more annoying than necessary.

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Robert — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:24:38 -0000

More than happy to leave a comment here about Norton 360:

1. Upon installation there was no choice but to create an account with Norton. There reasoning for this is along the lines of how they can then give you your key if you lose it AND it let's you use the Backup feature. None of this really makes sense to me and it seems to be too manipulative. What irks me the most was that I was not given the opportunity to skip the signup and simply activate the product via the key that came with it.

2. That green bar that shows up in the browser is ugly and I just don't appreciate it.

3. Norton's marketing machine has me confused. On their site they have a product comparison chart that shows Internet Security 2008 to provide greater Network protection. But on the 360 box they leave this out and make it look like 360 is all around more complete - confusing to say the least as I would like to have full Network wire and wireless protection - so does 360 cover it or not?

4. Re the above issue, their on line tech support was unable to accurately clarify the question.

5. The box says that it is good for 3 machines, but when you install it there is some crap about it being only good for one, which is unlikely, but again nonetheless confusing and a real turnoff.

I don't care how good it may or may not be, from what I have seen so far, my customer experience with this product, imho,it sucks.

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scott — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:39:11 -0000

have used norton for years without any problems until 360, nothing but spam and pop ups i think this bull *#$@ add on pack is for the birds does it work? i think not but it does have alot on nice settings but i'am still tring to fiqure out why cause it don't change a damn thing wow what a headache

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Kevin — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:24:03 -0000

DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!! After 4 reinstalls of norton and one reinstall of windows vista I am now out $80 bucks. I want to shoot someone for this bullshit. Dont even think about getting technical support from symantec either haha.

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Nic — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 04:45:26 -0000

Nod32 is an amazing program*, sorry.

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Nic — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 04:43:48 -0000

Norton 360 isnt bad, although on Vista, the scanner "hangs" and does not complete. Its becoming a pain in the.... Any who, Nod32 is an amazing problem - the only reason i got rid of it and installed norton was for the firewall.

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Aaron — Tue, 22 May 2007 09:31:05 -0000

Try Nod32. So lightweight you'll never notice it running, never requires a reboot (that I can remember), cheap, fast, reliable. There are other good options but if you value performance and lack of bloat first, then Nod32 might be the best. (http://www.eset.com/)
It's slightly more technical than other options, but you don't have to get into the technical parts unless you want to, and at least it isn't so offensively condescending as Norton.

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hmmmm — Sun, 20 May 2007 12:42:58 -0000

lol norton 360 works fine with me. doesnt slow me down. u can trun off norton 360 if u want u guys are bafling lol 512 of ram i can run virus nd spy ware check and it wont effect my copmputer. if u ever bother changing setting on ur 360 it might make a difrence. hmmm norton does not suck u guys just got.........no idea. if u cant do something change settying takes 1 mins to change it to ur need sigh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Leo — Tue, 15 May 2007 00:18:40 -0000

I should not have purchased Norton 360. IE7 is now crawling or crashing. Thank God i didnt put this on my laptop to. Wish I could return it.

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Disappointed — Thu, 03 May 2007 05:57:12 -0000

I just purchased Nortons 360 yesterday, today I can not send or recieve e-mail through Office Outlook at all. I keep getting an error message saying that it's sending an error report, every time I click send recieve. Talked with Symantec support today and after screwing around for about 30 hour, it still doesn't work and the tech told me to contact my ISP. Ugh.

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Tuomas Tynjälä — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:02:07 -0000

I had terrible experiences with Norton 360 and Windows Vista. It will install fine but after reboot it won't start, complaining about internal error. Their support site tells me to uninstall the 360 with their removal tool and re-install. But this won't help, same happens. Their support tells me the same thing than the support site (even when I indicate that I've already tried it at it won't help).

After wasting about 300$ worth of working time for this I switched to F-Secure. Their Vista product is still beta but it already works MUCH better - no problems whatsoever. My company will never by any Symantec product again. Stay away from this product, this is rip-off crap.

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aw — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 03:16:59 -0000

After installation simply cannot use it or uninstall it even by using the norton removal tool!!!

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don't touch it — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:23:16 -0000

I have used Norton for years, 360 is junk. DO NOT BUY IT. I thought that I would try the tech to fix it. NO WAY. I don't like MS but they should put Norton out of business and bundle a product that works.
I'm going to get my money back if it takes a $1,000 dollars to do it.
What a piece of crap.

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Priyabrata — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:53:31 -0000

Look...... Whoever tells symantec softwares Garbage Are nothing else than NON-SENCE.Nortn Slows down yr PC but this problem didn't persist in 360 version. It gives SUPERB SECURITY To its Users. So, Think TWICE before making any comments against Symantec's products.

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Jean DL — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:26:19 -0000

I choose to install Norton 360 upgrade for 3 computers instead of renewal of my NAV 2006 annual fees. Installation and Live Update went very well, but that was the end of the fun. IE7 was blocked, as well as outlook 2000 email. Also Win XP pro started to behave quite differently. I had once the opportunity to access the general settings of Norton 360 and tried to change the settings of backups. Since then the program is scanning almost for ever. I cannot remove the damned thing and my computer is crippled. Shame over Symantec. This will be my last buy.

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Bruce Speirs — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:29:33 -0000

Installed norton 360 over the internet which took about 3 hours with the so called help of a foreign tech. that you could hardly understand. The printer quit communicating in which we chatted back to norton in which they said it wasn't their problem. We reinstalled the printer which worked until we turned off the commputer and turned it back on with the same problem. It slows down the computer a lot. We had norton 2005 with no problems. They better go back to the drawing boards.

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Greg — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:10:36 -0000

Gosh, I wish I had read this stuff 1st. We added it today (4/11) to two machines to replace NAV05, one old admin machine we run a bulk network printer and Itunes across [128M memory uh-oh; no mention of system minimum or halt during install... now Itunes won't run, or anything else], and a newer machine. Since it deleted our downloaded NAV05, I know we'll run into problems if we uninstall. Looks like time on the phone coming up... so sad.

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sochib — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:00:58 -0000

give me product key norton 360

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bobcaswell — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:47:49 -0000

Pat,

I wonder what we could do to get Symantec execs to read the stories here. Or we *do* need to get a hold of some email addresses somehow...

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Pat O'Hara — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:11:37 -0000

Just to add to the general din about Norton 360, I upgraded to 360 on the laptop my mother-in-law just bought for Christmas--thinking I was doing her a favor--the 90 day free trial of Norton Anti-virus had expired. Well, like a number of respondents here, my mother in law now has a machine slowed to a crawl, with programs that spontaneously close, and other bizarre manifestations that I haven't seen in my 23 years of microcomputing. I am not a techie, but what I do know is that this machine just hummed along before I installed 360 and runs like a 1980's 366 now. My mother-in-law wants to know what I did to break her machine. Is there a Symantec exec one can write directly to do something about this?

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John hartley — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:52:08 -0000

I have had the same experience. I fell prey to the great reviews in PCMAG.online and installed Norton 360 and it has slowed my machine to a crawl. What good is a product that would destroy performance? I hope the support people can help me but from the latter reviews from the trenches I doubt I'll have much success.