Norton Internet Security 2009

Hmmm, it might be time to give this another trial-run. At the moment I am trialling Panda Anti-virus and Eset NOD32. Of course the price also makes a difference.

Good to hear that they have hopefully fixed the resource and speed problems. Will give it a shot when I can get my hands on a trial version.
 
Even more impressive is the new scan engine that Symantec has been working on for the last two years. Dubbed Norton Insight, this new engine uses a clever system of distributed computing to compare the files on your machine to that of a known and trusted database of file data.
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Oh for fark sneaks ... I thought that the entire reason for purchasing an anti-viral suite was that the suit would have access to this "database of file data", and that Norton had such a database and we were basically paying them to keep it up to date.
Are Norton saying that they did not have this "database" before.
Well, then what the heck were all those downloads that made my mom feel so safe all about?

* :mad: *

I refuse to use anything like these products, back it up, or be prepared to lose it.
 
The software has also been redesigned to only start scanning when the machine is idle.
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Okay, now I'm really confused .. this was definitely a feature in the previous release.

Methinks that this so-called article is a pile of bs.

I wonder if this product works when you're offline?
 
Norton is the biggest & baddest virus you can get on your pc. I prefer something light like avast, AVG, NOD. :)
 
um, wouldn't hurt to trial it on a test PC. Nothing like giving it a bad rap just because of it's past behaviour. Come on people. Don't be sheep. This is a whole new version... let's wait until some more reviews come in.
 
They're using hash values to identify files that aren't viruses... definitely useful with all the variants of crap going undetected these days.
 
Why is Peter Norton standing with his arms folded?
He's waiting for the Norton Desktop --make it Norton Antivirus-- to load. :)

This was a running joke in the old Win 3.1/95 days of the Norton Desktop for Windows.
Peter Norton as you all know, the guy who gave his name to the Norton Utilities, Norton Desktop and then Norton Antivirus, is often pictured standing with is arms folded on the front of various Symantec boxes.
 
I have to admit that if it's a lot better les hungry than in the past, I'd be willing to try a trial version of it in a virtual machine. I do believe change is possible, but in the case of Symantec it may be too little too late. The other anti-virus vendors have sensed the gap and most of them raised their game up way beyond what Symantec was doing.

Time will tell what happens.
 
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