• Windows XP
• Windows 2000

Product configuration determines system speed.

In all fairness this product is pretty good. You just need to configure it properly for your needs. Out of the box, it will lock down your system so tight that you will not be able do get much done. So you will have to decide which filters you want to activate by default and which ones will be selective. This will take a day or two. The main thing to turn off is the automatic update. I also suggest not using the email plug-ins, just let it scan the messages. The plug-ins get loaded if you answer yes to the email linking question during installation. ^M

Annoying

So I go home to New York to visit my mother with tech boyfriend in tow. She has a 3 year old notebook and it is running SLOW. We cleaned up the startup and did a bunch of other stuff, ran a little faster b ut still slow at startup, and kept getting annoying popups from Norton saying that her subscription was expiring IN A MONTH. When I tried to update it, the program would not download virus definitions without renewing the product... finally after about eight to ten times of waiting for Norton's excruciatingly slow liveupdate to connect and telling me I had to renew the subscription that wasn't even really near expiration and clicking no over and over again, the program FINALLY updated its virus definitions. That's RIDICULOUS. The update server should NOT be holding your liveupdate hostage when THE SUBSCRIPTION STILL HAD A MONTH LEFT. Because I use PC Cillin on my home pc in buffalo and have been meaning to get some more licences of it for my other pc's, I went out and purchased a 3 pack of PC Cillin licences at Best Buy (would have gotten it online for cheaper but I was only in town for a couple days for a funeral). Myself and my boyfriend then proceeded to uninstall Norton, clear out all the junk that it had left in the registry, and the computer worked great. The end.^M

Much smoother than I thought

I was looking for a good deal on this since my old version was out of date for a while and I was tired of the frequenct reminders. I have three computers at home, a bare bones Dell, an HP desktop with AMD Athlon and a Sony notebook. All with XP pre installed and well maintained. I do registry cleanup, disk cleanup, psyware check etc regularly. The Norton software installed easily on all of them, after telling me to remove earlier versions of NIS as well as Spybot. Since Norton has its own spyware detector I did not mind. One of computers actually crashed during the installation but that was because Microsoft simultaneously downloaded and installed one of its zillion security patches stealthily in the background and kept pestering me to reboot. After I changed the Windows update settings there were no other issues. ^M