• Windows XP

Not Worth Your While

I recently purchased this software and had to uninstall it. In my case, I was unable to get into my Quicken account, which is password protected. One of the features of Confidential is an "Information Vault" which stores all passwords. I was prompted to enter the Quicken one as well, but chose not to as I felt this would defeat the purpose of having a password set up in the first place. After that, when I would enter the Quicken password, my machine would just hang up. The only way I could get in was by opening it in safe mode. ^M

Truly Awful Software- be aware!

As others have noted, this product prevents AOL from loading on my machine - it just stalls (AOL is using a connection via Cable). It also "automatically" registers itself with Symantec and starts the counting of the 1 year subscription unless you cut of internet access. I removed it from that machine (a Toshiba Laptop) and installed it on my backup Dell (an older Pentium 3 866mhz). Both were running XP with the latest updates. It slowed Internet Explorer to a crawl and locked it up when I attempted to first write this review. It also slowed overall performance, when not in the browser, though this seems illogical. I uninstalled it (it was the only Norton product on the machine) and it left Live Update installed until I manually started the removal of it. Fortunately everything is back to normal after removing all. This is truly dangerous software for those with at least my type of equipment: Stay away unless you have very poor browsing security and a machine that does not choke on it.

On-line transactions

This product has some of the best protection for on-line transactions. The product was able to view and secure my bank portal and allowed me to conduct my on-line transactions in a secure form. I am very happy to see that Symantec has moved into this space and providing added security to people like myself that do lots of pruchase on the internet.^M