| Norton's 2005 security line-up | ||||
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Norton AntiVirus 2005 |
Norton Personal Firewall 2005 |
Norton Internet Security 2005 |
Norton AntiSpam 2005 | |
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| Product type | ||||
| Antivirus | Firewall | Internet suite | Antispam | |
| Date available | ||||
| Early September | Mid September | Mid September | Mid September | |
| Price | ||||
| £39.99 (3- and 5-user packs £79.99 and £119.99) | £39.99 | £49.99 (3-user pack £99.99) | £24.99 | |
| Highlights | ||||
| Norton AntiVirus 2005's claim to fame is that its Worm Protection feature borrows from firewall technology to block inbound ports so that you can protect yourself against worm attacks such as MSBlast. Its new QuickScan feature also scans your whole system quickly upon receipt of the latest virus definitions. | Next year's Norton Personal Firewall includes a privacy protection feature designed to keep your credit card information safe on your hard drive, not circulating on the Internet without your permission. On the other hand, you can also whitelist certain trusted sites, such as your online bank account, to prevent needless alert notifications. | Norton Internet Security 2005 introduces Outbreak Alert, a system of notifications of Internet threats and protection strategies, plus spam-filtering capabilities within Yahoo Mail. Other enhancements include a feature to filter out URLs commonly used by phishing scammers and spam filters for various language sets. | Norton AntiSpam's filtering capabilities now extend to Yahoo Mail (last year's version scanned only Hotmail and MSN Mail). Enhancements include a feature to filter out URLs commonly used by phishing scammers, plus spam filters set to block various language sets. | |
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PREVIEW
Talkback
Dear Sir/Maddam
As a user of your product "Nortons 2004 anti virus", and also a retail outlet for many various computer items "hardware & software", I find rather anoying when I carnt recomend your product to my customers, why is this so? EG: When one hass to manually download an so called patch to uptate there so called virus definitions as proposed to "LIVE UPDATE!!!"
I would dearly love to recomend your product to my customers but as I have explained above it is extreamly hard to convince my customer of this little trivial matter and inconvienance.
A please explain would be greatly accepted and apreated
Kind Regards
Richard Brady
Computer Performance Units
ABN: 68 420 071 994
dunno what Richard Edwin Brady is talking abt. cant understand his english.
I think Richard needs to finish grade school before getting into a buisness. From the way u type or asked that, it doesnt seem like anyone needs to be listening about your opinions under ignorance.
Let me jump in here. I think you hit the crux of the problem. Richard types/spells like my cousin, age 43, who is a school teacher. My 43 year old son learned to read while in the Air Force, at age 19. During his school years the powers that be had decided the "old" ways of teaching reading weren't working.
My grandchildren who are in school now can type correctly and spell (ages 11-15) . Maybe Richard's age and the years he attended school are the problem. Lets give him a break.
As for Norton 2005, I getting ready to upgrade or change. Does anyone have any experience with 2005 yet? 2004 has been good for me (running win 98) but I surely don't need any problems.
I installed NIS 2005 on 2 of my computers. It brought both of them to a virtual standstill and rendered one of them almost completely useless. With NIS running it took 12 minutes to start Outlook and a further 20 minutes to settle down to the point where the processor could get its breath back. This is on a 1GHz machine with 128M RAM and not much more than a basic home office setup installed.
If you're thinking of buying this, try and get hold of a test version first to ensure your hardware is up to it.
I'm currently trying to get a refund because I didn't test it first.
I have used Norton's for probably 6 years, and this year I am having a horrible time with it. No problems on my XP Home version, but terrible problems on my XP Pro version.
I am getting messages on only one of my computers (XP Pro version, my home version is fine) that there are components missing and it cannot complete a scan, even though it appears to go through a complete scan, but then when you click to finish (what you think was a complete scan), it pops up a message that says "components missing and it cannot complete a scan". I did have 3 viruses on my computer earlier this week and my neighbor computer guru came over and got them removed, and Housecall ran a clean scan. Housecall (a free internet site to run a scan) is the program that found the viruses.
I have gone to the website to gotten a fix and followed directions and made sure that everything is running in "incompatible" mode (weird eh?) and since that doesn't work, I then follow the next steps and manually download the new virus definitions (not through instant update or whatever that is)... On rare occasion it will work, but then the next time I scan (the next day) it doesn't complete again!
I am so frustrated with this Norton's I am ready to go out and purchase another program, but, I just paid $79 for this one! (because I have multiple computers).
I am getting tired of running two scans a day to be sure that I don't have viruses -- I run Norton's and I run Housecall (Microtrend - or is it Trendmicro? A freebie on the web that you can run daily).
I anyone else having these problems? Does anyone use McAfee's? How do you like them? I used to use them, but then had troubles with their updates and went to Norton's.
Anybody using Staples antivirus program? What do you think of it? My other option is to buy Housecall, it seems to catch viruses than my Norton's does not!
All help and advise appreciated.
I am having the same problem, i have reinstalled norton already.. everything was fine for about 48 hours and the same message pops up with components missing and cant complete the scan, dont even bother with symantec knowledge base, by them it is ither your computer or the internet has a problem.. any input on this would be greatly appreciated..
TheHun
Norton should have stopped with Norton Commander 4.0 in 1993. I do not like this product. AVG rocks....
i was blessed with a symantec suite of products, professional edition with live updates, back in the day (1999-2002) when i had a compaq pc. an icq (bigwig) buddy from belgium hooked me up. i must say that those days of blissful ignorance about windows were quite sweet. never had a problem - ever. of course, then i was properly introduced to a mac (tossed the pc to mummy) and never looked back. that is, except for when my mac-less family and friends give me a ring. i haven't spent a cent on security products and don't plan to.
again?
get mac and kwitcherbitchin.
-k