Customer Reviews
Fails out of the box
I remember Norton from the mid 80's. He was the guy who figured out all the 8088 traps for the original IBM. It started with books. He did some magic low level programming and shared it with anyone who cared to buy his books. Somewhere along the lines he got involved with a bigger company.^M
Beware then be happy
I recommend this only to experienced Norton users who are aware of the pitfalls (no support, labyrinth of looping phone menus and a web site worthy of any soviet bureaucracy). Uninstall any previous versions completely--even earlier Norton products--and restart before beginning the install. Don't put this on any machine older than a couple of years as each edition since 2003 dogs the speed and performance of the computer to a point you'd weigh the consequences of operating in the wide open without protection (not recommended unless you're a potential client of mine with lots of spare change). NIS does a great job when it's set up and running properly. I like Ghost and have moved many clients away from traditional backup programs to it and I appreciate that they include the older version for older operating systems.Symantec makes some good products and is that infamous 900 lb. gorilla, but it could be soooooooooo much more if had even an inkling of real support.
Half and Half
Half the deal is good. The Norton Internet Security is cheaper than on the Symantec website, so that's a good bargain. The Ghost, though, is really quite an annoying program. It does back up the data (supposedly), but there isn't a way that I could find to get it OFF the hard drive so I'm not sure how it will help, considering if the hard drive crashes, it is unusable. It also really slows down the function of other programs because it is constantly running in the background. I ended up deleting the entire program from my computer and hoping for the best. Therefore, I'd suggest that you just go ahead and buy the Internet Security alone.
