Symantic internet security 2006

Well, beta testing is over and I'll be receiving my free copy of Internet Security 2006...

Did ya know that CDs make good things to put candles on in case the wax drips?

I think that says enough. Although I'll probably install it anyway just to see what the final does.

 

Man... I wouldn't let Symantec dig itself into my registry for all the tea in China. Good luck to you. You're going to need it.

 

Ahhhhh, but I intend to install it into my testing drive. Just to play with it. Once I'm bald from pulling out my hair I'll just throw the base image back on it.

 

Symantec no longer supports 9X with this new version.

http://www.symantec.com/nav/nav_9xnt/

Regards - Charles

 

I have not used Norton products for quite some time. But what I did fine was that Symantec/Norton products are no different than any other software. And not EVERY machine will handle it.

How well it behaves can relate to both the MACHINE & USER

Good grief. I think the above statement brings us right back to another of my favorites words. That word being COMBINATION

If not installed or setup properly on the proper hardware ANY software STINKS. That is a lesson I learned year ago with not only Norton but other software. And that lesson still applies.

I would be willing to bet that If I bought the newer Norton it would only work ( properly ) on one machine. That being this newer XP Pro. 10 to 1 that it would not work on my almost 10 year old Machine. So why should I buy something that may well only work on one machine ?

I also screen my E-Mail with Mailwasher. And if do not recognize where it came from or prewiew it and still do not like what I see it goes BYE-BYE with the delete. key. ( I just deleted TEN this AM. )

Now. If anybody thinks that I am out of my mind for writing this note they may well be right. I do have to go next Monday for MRIs of my head.

I am not supposed to be even be on this PC as much as I am. But I CAN NOT stay away because I enjoy it to much. Especially posts like this one.

Gotta go take my Medications.

BillyBob

 

I did not see this before I wrote. But it 100% supports some of my thoughts.

So if it does not support 9X then I would be willing to bet that it will not support some of the older hardware either.

BillyBob

 

While I use and have had no problem with Norton AV 2005 I would not seriously consider useing one of the Internet Security packages as a whole.

Main reasons:

1) Extremely resource hungry. My CPU temp ran 2 degrees C higher at an idle with 2006 Internet Security installed.

2) An everyday user just plain can not uninstall it. It embeds itsself so deeply that it pretty much takes over the system. In itsself, for what it's supposed to do, isn't all bad. But it's uninstall dosen't uninstall it. It leaves 100s of registry entries that adversly affect the machine after an uninstall.

3) On a slower machine, say under 900MHz. it will seriously slow down the system. (this relates to reason 1)

On number 2 I won't say that this isn't true of many pieces of software. However, something that takes so much control of the system needs to actually uninstall.

 

Hi Jay,

I shy away from suites as well for the reasons you've outlined + a suite is only as strong as it's weakest part. In the case of Symantec, the firewall from what I've read is mediocre and if something goes wrong with Symantec's LU which is a common enough problem, you're SOL.

I want to emphasize that I think any suite is prone to this sort of problem: McAfee as well.

Unfortunately, suites are "in" and in the future are go to be hard to avoid.

For the record: I use NAV2005 on one XP installation.

Regards - Charles

 

The firewall IS another problem. Say a user has XP and dosen't even realise there is a firewall in XP(many don't)...

The 2006 or 2005 suites will not detect that a firewall is running and give notice to warn. It will just go ahead and install it's firewall and wreck havoc with the system. Have your restore point ready!

 

jaylach

I like your last post. It sort of supports my thinking and FINDINGS.

I had problems with 2004. It just plain overloaded things. Higher temps and slower speeds. It took me three (3) days and A LOT of VERY CAREFUL reg cleaning.

And you can be that I had A LOT of Restore Points along the way. And a couple got used. And when I was all done and found that all was going to be OK after a day or two SR was shut down and restarted.

BillyBob

 

Seing that makes me think/wonder.

This XP machine has a Harddrive that is a COPY of the 98SE machine then upgraded to XP Pro. So therefore it does contain quite a bit of Software that goes back to at least 98B.

Would it even make sense for me to even THINK about installing something like NS 2006 ?

I myself say NO.

BillyBob

 

On the uninstalls getting better I can't comment about the final release but it sure wasn't on the betas.

On the rest I can't argue with your method. It's good. I'm more concerned about the average user though. The one that opens the box, plugs it in, and trusts all the hype of advertiseing because they don't have the knowledge to know any better. Would that person even understand what the above quote is saying?

 

Another thing that may well come into play that I have not seen mentioned. ( If it has Christer will understand why I may have missed it.

The thing that I see missing is the fact,

Are we discussing a HOME built or STORE built machine ?

I ask because I believe that can make a difference too.

BillyBob
PS
I need to go REST. Will be back later.

BB