Norton AntiVirus 2008 - 3 User Pack (with Antispyware) | 
 enlarge | From: Symantec
Category: Software
List Price: $69.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1898
Format: Cd
Platform: Windows
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows
MPN: 12778785
UPC: 037648612265
EAN: 0037648612265
ASIN: B0012CDWNC
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Product Description
Norton AntiVirus 2008 with Antispyware blocks spyware automatically, detects and removes viruses and worms, and prevents virus-infected emails from spreading. The Security technologies include Antispyware, Antivirus, Internet Worm Protection, and Rootkit Detection. Provides one year protection for up to 3 PCs per household.
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Obtrusive and intrusive -- wrecked my VPN connection October 22, 2008
Roger J. Buffington (Huntington Beach, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been running Norton products since the early days when Peter Norton actually was the pre-eminent PC and antivirus guru, back in the 1980s. I have noticed a trend whereby these products take up more and more system resources, and become more and more intrusive. Things have now gotten to the point where I and my small business have abandoned the Norton solution.
I was running Norton Antivirus 2008, and after some update or other, it subtly, but effectively, blocked our VPN connection, so that we could not connect wirelessly to our company server. At first I blamed Windows Vista, but after much hair-pulling, we discovered that it was Norton Antivirus 2008. Even when disabled, it placed a filter between the Notebook computer and the VPN connection, sabotaging it. These people simply cannot get it through their heads that our computers do not exist to run antivirus, firewall, and related products--they are there to do work.
Another unacceptable trait that Norton now does, is that when your product expires, or is about to, it starts bombarding you with obtrusive pop-up windows telling you to renew. And these windows do not follow the MS Windows protocol, with an X in the upper right-hand corner where you can quickly get rid of it. I have come to resent these intrusions. It does not matter now; we have removed Norton from our computers and looked elsewhere for a solution.
Norton violates the first rule of "Do No Harm." I am disappointed to have to abandon them.
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