Rating: - In my book--best product out there for full security-suite--BUT SPYWARE piece like all full suites STINKS
I have usually had Norton pre-installed as 3 month trial on every laptop I bought and just went for it.

However, last laptop I had used McCafee, and had loads of problems.

So on my latest PC, I did a full evaluation of most top products: Kaspersky, Bit Defender, etc. Conclusions are Norton is still best in my book BUT you need another ADWARE or anti-spy product. I use Super Anti-Spy..for free.


Problem with kaspersky and other (possibly better products) are they do too thorough a flag of items..and I acnnot even figure out clearly results of a scan! You need to have been in Aerospace program at NASA!
And I am a very techgnical person, but have no tiume to spend 3 hours looking ata scan!

And ALL of full interne t suites MISSSED all low-risk spyware that MY FREE COPY ($20 for fuller function with scheduling and live auto update)caught. Definitely real spyware.

Shortcomings of Norton 360:

1) very confusing to diffeentiate between having NORTON run scans automatically when it chosses versus auto-scheduling for certain days, week or month.
2) Very hard to discern easily which scans were run
3) Firewalkl works superbly
4) Fast scan--in automated..I don't trust having it control when it runs
5) Live update, unlike mcCafee is coupled with running scan/...so u cannot (like Windows) have it do real-time updates 24X7

Overall, compared to other products for ful service package--for $40 this is awesome buy. McCafee had better user interface screens..but it kept on turning off--and found out it was some bug ..that tey had no solution for. Then it just stopoped working totally!

BTW, I have a duo-core Extreme CPU on Windows 64bit VISTA.


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