Norton Internet Security 2004 - Academic Version (discontinued)

User Rating: 4/10

im lucky i guessby - May 15, 2004

Pros: i got a good dwnload an installation. very lucky!!!!!

Cons: none YET! but im very familar with norton products,so i keep my fingers crossed that no probs occur. cause tech supp. is pretty much non-existent

User Rating: 3/10

DID NOT WORK WELL WITH MY NEW DELL DIMENTSION 8300by - May 1, 2004

Pros: Interface, update reminders

Cons: After two weeks of use with my new dell dimension 8300 started having problems with it. Started with liveupdate not being to download anything manually. Error said to download new version of live update. Did that and new version functioned well for few da

User Rating: 2/10

How do I stop subscription dialog of NISby - April 21, 2004

Pros:

Cons: My NAV is 2004, NIS is 2003. Every time computer starts, the subscription dialog shows NAV subscription is OK but NIS subscrition is not. I don't want to renew NIS, how do I stop the dialog? I don't know if it is NAV ou NIS but computer is very slow at s

User Rating: 6/10

Need to get rid of any existing security programsby - March 26, 2004

Pros: It blocks ads like you won't believe!

Cons: Way too delicate to install! First internet download created all kinds of problems consistent with what everyone has mentioned. Reset my computer (Dell) to old settings and started all over again by first deleting NIS 2003 first. Then loaded 2004 and it s

User Rating: 7/10

Solid product...by - March 8, 2004

Pros: It installs and works great. Web browsing doesn't take that much of a hit and the Anti-Spam filters work pretty darn well. I am miffed at why others have so many issues, although here it is March, so bugs may be worked out by now. This blows the doors off

Cons: Uses too much system resources, but is tolerable.

User Rating: 2/10

I eventually had to remove itby - February 27, 2004

Pros: Easy to set up for most activities.

Cons: Prevents a lot of actions such as downloads that require post backs (in ASP.NET) and in Typo3 prevents linking to a specific frontend page from the backend, plus others I discovered after uninstalling it. I contacted support with a question by email and s

User Rating: 8/10

good for those with patienceby - February 15, 2004

Pros: Once installed, this program is very intuitive and non-intrusive. When it needs to make a change to your settings, it asks. Simple as that. Spam filter is awesome as is the pop-up killer. I went from the google toolbar elimating 100s of pop-ups, to hav

Cons: Install has bugs, mostly if you have previously installed Norton products. Also, if you don't have multiple user accounts in WinXP, don't try to setup parental/user account profiles in setup.

User Rating: 3/10

Cant Update Virus Definitionsby - February 12, 2004

Pros: When it is actually working, it is a good product, easy to use. But...

Cons: But if something goes wrong, and it has twice already in 2 months, be prepared to pay the $29 or $39 to speak to a tech, because their online automated support is full of bugs, too.

User Rating: 10/10

I've bought ZoneAlarm PRO 4by - February 12, 2004

Pros: Norton Anti Virus is great.

Cons: The NIS features other than NAV create more problems than they could solve. Technical support offers no solution. Now I have to turn off the NIS and keep NAV only. ZoneAlarm has been running smoothly.

User Rating: 7/10

Just as GREAT as NIS 2003by - February 12, 2004

Pros: I was running NIS 2003 previously. NIS 2004 installed easily. I have not noticed a slow down on my broadband connection. The Ad and Pop-up blocking is great. System: WinXP SP1, P4 2.6GHz, 1GB Ram

Cons: Can't think of any.

User Rating: 2/10

Slowed down IE to a crawl!!!!!by - February 11, 2004

Pros: Like the Anti Virus component.

Cons: Ended up disabling all but the anti-virus portion as webpages would take forever to load. I have a Pentium 4 laptop with 3.2 Ghz processor and my kids' Pentium 2 w/a much slower processor would load pages faster! It was agony. Have not uninstalled it a

User Rating: 3/10

What Securityby - February 3, 2004

Pros: I have learned a great deal about regedit, system files and manually uninstalling software.

Cons: I am not really interested in learning a great deal about regedit, system files and manually uninstalling software. This product only creates security because it ties up the whole machine! A new problem every day.

User Rating: 6/10

nice package of featuresby - January 31, 2004

Pros: When it works it works well. Better then Mcaffe

Cons: Took 2 weeks of installing and uninstalling to finally make it work. Nothing tech support offered made it work right I cant even figure out what I did different that made it work.

User Rating: 1/10

BELIEVE THESE REVIEWS! DON'T BUY THIS !!!by - January 31, 2004

Pros: It could be great software.

Cons: I have been a loyal Norton Anti-Virus and Internet Security software user for as long as I can remember. Their products have been great and have saved my bacon on numerous occasions. That said, the latest release (Norton Internet Security 2004) is the W

User Rating: 2/10

DON'T BUY THIS PROGRAM !!by - January 30, 2004

Pros: If it worked, this would be the best, most comprehensive version of NIS to date.

Cons: All the negative comments you read here are true. I am an experienced techie. I stupidly didn't believe the negative comments, because I've had great success with Symantec products for many years and - until now - have had a very high opinion of the comp

User Rating: 2/10

XP-Centric? Not Ready for Prime Timeby - January 29, 2004

Pros: I'm sure they're in there somewhere...

Cons: I hate to say it, but Symantec fell down hard on this one. I'm a fairly tech-savvy user, so I decided to give CNET and positive comments a little more wieght (okay, there were discounts and rebates involved). I will not make that mistake again.<br>

User Rating: 3/10

Product is NOT user friendlyby - January 26, 2004

Pros: Norton Anti-Virus portion works well.

Cons: First the Anti Spam would crash Outlook express everytime you tried to identify a new e-mail as Spam. Norton knows of problem but has no fix. Second the anti-ad program is very weak I found many items with Ad-aware that Norton completely missed. Third

User Rating: 1/10

Flawed product, unable to reach support. DO NOT BUY!!!!by - January 22, 2004

Pros: 60 day return policy. Norton charges $30 to help you install its product if you have problems and if you can get through to their customer support. Pretty interface.

Cons: Haven't gotten it to work after 1 week. After 2 calls to customer support totaling 2 hours and $30, the product still won't activate. I have spent another 3 hours on hold trying to reach tech support again without success over a period of 4 working days

User Rating: 6/10

It's Working Fine for Meby - January 21, 2004

Pros: Formats pages without adds if you prefer.Antivirus 2004 will block ads as well

Cons: Boot time went from less than two minutes to almost three

User Rating: 3/10

DE-stabilizes operationsby - January 10, 2004

Pros: easy to use, nice interface, lots of features

Cons: fails to operate correctly with previousely installed and CURRENT NORTON antivirus programs, too intrusive, conflicts with other programs, cannot easily set rules to restrict or allow traffic to and from trusted sites and companies, blocked traffic from h

User Rating: 2/10

A good product turned badby - January 9, 2004

Pros: Good interface, setup was ok

Cons: Been a loyal Norton user since 2000 had every version since but this product is dire. I upgraded 2003 on my 2k box but it virually became unusable, I reinstalled it on 2k still had probs so upgraded to xp on a new harddisk, had even more problems with per

User Rating: 8/10

i like this surprisinglyby - January 2, 2004

Pros: easy to use scans compressed files easy instant updates without having to restart your computer all the time like mcafee

Cons: noticeable speed loss activation

User Rating: 5/10

Look at the competition firstby - January 1, 2004

Pros: Anti Spam, Easy User Interface, online updates and good signiture db

Cons: Very slow and huge overheads. Kills bootup on XP(2-4mins delay).

User Rating: 8/10

Good Good Goodby - December 20, 2003

Pros: No problems on my Home XP System. All the parts work great! Security, add popup blocking, super spam filter along with the virus scan and firewall. No lockups or failures of any kind. Great product with lots of functionality.

Cons: Not sure I care for the product activation process. It was no problem and I guess I can see why its necessary.

User Rating: 1/10

Total Trashby - December 16, 2003

Pros: Absolutely positively none

Cons: Lookout folks, Norton wants you to call their tech center because they charge you an enormous amount of money for support. When they told me how much it cost for support I said no way. I tossed it in the trash. No satisfaction with this product. Don't Buy

User Rating: 3/10

Avoid this horrible program at all costsby - December 15, 2003

Pros: I haven't had anyone try my firewall or send me a virus, but I guess it's protecting me. Nice user interface.

Cons: I have a P4 at 3 GHz, 1 GB RAM and Windows XP. All new, all good stuff. My system was working fine for months. After loading Internet Security 2004, my computer crashes at least twice per day destroying whatever I was working on. It automatically updates

User Rating: 8/10

Its great on my XP systemby - December 13, 2003

Pros: I have had NIS 2004 installed for over a month (Windows XP). I was hesitant because of all the negative reviews. But I gave it a try as I prchased it with a couple of rebates. So far its been great. No crashes or lock-ups. All works well. The add and popu

Cons: I do see a very slight slowdown in web browsing (I have a cable connection). Butits very slight and hardly bothersome.

User Rating: 7/10

Was skeptical, but...by - December 9, 2003

Pros: Thanks for the advice about reading the manual first...very helpful. Install went off without hitch. Activation scared me, but also no problems...also it let me put the product on more than one PC - maybe its a mistake cuz I thought activation wouldn't

Cons: Obviously most computer don't read manuals before intalling products - and they obviously should. I would like to hear from users who read the manual the very firt thing but still then had bad experiences. The product is a little sophisticated which is

User Rating: 2/10

Causes death in Windows 2000 Pro.by - December 8, 2003

Pros: Antivirus part is fine. 60 days money back. They're investigating the problem.

Cons: Personal firewall, Intrusion detection, and productivity control is all disabled because otherwise I get blue screen of death. This is a known flaw at Symantec.

User Rating: 9/10

What are you people smoking? Its fine!by - December 7, 2003

Pros: Flawless install and operation for me. So easy a retarded monkey could use it. You people must be doing something wrong. There is minor a slow down though you can't expect to to take some hit is speed and still be protected. "Garbage if you run Windows 9

Cons: It is slow in detecting my wireless network at start up It takes about 15 seconds up from about 8 before.

User Rating: 4/10

Moving Cautiouslyby - December 5, 2003

Pros: I am currently using NIS 2003 AND Systemworks. After reading all these reviews, I can't see anything that is worth the risk of trying NIS 2004. My systems are too important to me.

Cons: Product Activation. What a load of crap. Thanks Norton, you just lost ANOTHER loyal consumer. I've been using Norton products since Peter's face was hawking the disk optimizers of the late eighties. I'M NOT A BUSINESS. I may have more than one computer in

User Rating: 2/10

crashes repeatedlyby - December 4, 2003

Pros: is good at what it does when it will run

Cons: slows system to a crawl. repeatedly crashes and little to no customer support.

User Rating: 5/10

What did they do?by - December 2, 2003

Pros: Interface is nicer, Spam controls

Cons: Extremely buggy, slows down my P4 big time. Only had it installed for 3 days before Antivirus became corrupt and had to re-install. This was such a great product gone horribly wrong. Too bad. I guess it's back to 2002 for me. I hope they get the bugs work

User Rating: 6/10

Easy to use not any support to mentionby - December 2, 2003

Pros: Quick and easy small info messages keep you up to date on how it's working

Cons: Would like to knoe how to install when I have 2 hard drives and 2 OS onone computer

User Rating: 2/10

Feature packed but unstable and slow!by - December 1, 2003

Pros: Has many built-in features including anti-spam and spy-software detection

Cons: Very unstable, system errors force repeated un-install and re-install. Slows entire computer to an unacceptable level. Symantec tech support is slow and offers no solution. I've upgraded to every new version of Norton Internet Security for the last 6 y

User Rating: 1/10

It's worse than having a virusby - December 1, 2003

Pros:

Cons: This product has a flaw which is criminal. Basically, it has a bug in which it will improperly store the supervisor password you assign it and you then can't log in as a supervisor to change settings. The really bad part about this is that it also won't

User Rating: 9/10

I have absolutly no problems!by - November 30, 2003

Pros: Simple and straight forward interface. One complete package for all you interent security needs. The spam filter is a GREAT bonus!

Cons: I experienced only the slightest slowdown while using my web browser, not enough to even begin to complain.

User Rating: 1/10

The must have written the code all over again and got it wrong again !!!!by - November 30, 2003

Pros: None !

Cons: I have had to completely uninstall and reinstall multiply times. It appears that the license gets corrupted and shuts down all protection, and forces the user to re-install. My computer has taken more dumps since I installed this product, then the entire

User Rating: 7/10

Better than the Competition..by - November 29, 2003

Pros: I tried them all, believe me, and the only one I use myself on my power laptop is Norton Internet Security. Easy to update daily with Intelligent Updater, Excellent, firewall and Anti Spam, Decent AV with unpacking strengh. Good support overall, compared

Cons: The Product Activation (DRM) scheme caused me a lot of worry, but I have NO problems with it. I can't blame Symantec 100%, I guess.

User Rating: 8/10

Great! No problemsby - November 28, 2003

Pros: Having all the security tools neatly and logically integrated in a single interface. I installed on my XP machine. I have not had a single problem. Spam filter is way better than others I have tried. I don't see much impact on web browsing. Live updat

Cons: None so far.

User Rating: 10/10

The Best Ever!!!by - November 28, 2003

Pros: Norton Internet Security is the best protection for your computer and your dollar. I have been using Norton product's since 2000 and they have always worked very well for me. I like this product because it protects, its easy to use, it dosen't slow down y

Cons: NONE

User Rating: 8/10

Heed the many Warnings!!!by - November 25, 2003

Pros: Nice thought.

Cons: See all other negative reviews and there are many. Actually stopped my new Microsoft Office 2003 from installing critical updates. The NAV "progress window" which was hidden by any open window(you must minimize or resize the see the progress window) displ

User Rating: 8/10

Works Great!!! No problems at all.by - November 25, 2003

Pros: Good protection with a GREAT spam filter. I totally recommend this product.

Cons: Product activation is lame.

User Rating: 1/10

Installation horrorsby - November 25, 2003

Pros:

Cons: I spent probably 40 hours trying to get this piece of junk to install. I've followed Symantec's advice on their Web site about installation failures; advice that has you run special uninstall programs, registry edits, and so on. There are known problems w

User Rating: 1/10

Biggest crap ever from Symantecby - November 25, 2003

Pros: none

Cons: Resized my partition, activation was gone, surfed the internet again activation was gone. Slows down machine horrible, not to mention internet access, with NIS 1 page loading took several minutes, without in a blink. Customer Support not acceptable. I ref

User Rating: 7/10

Good but hidden danger during activation.by - November 24, 2003

Pros: It seems to have more smarts regarding automatic configuration when a standard program is trying to access the internet.

Cons: WARNING!!! During product activation NIS 2004 is OFF, and successful product activation requires you to be connected to the internet. This is extremely dangerous if you are installing it on a new PC or doing a clean install of the operating system since

User Rating: 3/10

Extremely Flawedby - November 24, 2003

Pros: Lots of features, live update works well.

Cons: Clearly a rushed product as its extremely flawed and contains MAJOR bugs. Try using multiple profiles in any version of outlook, forget about it. Delays printing and multiple web browsing issues. I've been supporting PC's for 16 years, never had as many p

User Rating: 2/10

Horrible, not worth the installby - November 24, 2003

Pros: Sure, it has some good features like hogging your cpu and blocking spam..

Cons: Be sure to have an hour and half and a 3ghz computer when you plan uninstalling this pathetic product. It is by far the worst thing Norton has ever placed their name on.

User Rating: 9/10

The best home security package bar none!by - November 24, 2003

Pros: Intuitive Interface, automatic updates, thorough product documentation, excellent effectiveness, great value at price point. Technical support good via WWW, NNTP, and e-mail. Those who RTFM (Read The Freakin' Manual) prior to PTFB (Pushing The Freaking Bu

Cons: None discovered as of yet.

User Rating: 3/10

Bugs and more bugsby - November 24, 2003

Pros: Nice Bundled Package but...

Cons: Would not install on my laptop.After 6 hours on the phone with support I was instructed to send the product back for refund..Now I have no protection and am waiting for the bundled McAfee Internet Security Package to arrive in the mail

User Rating: 3/10

VCOM SystemSuite5 beats them allby - November 24, 2003

Pros:

Cons: I have tried both Norton and McAfee IS 6.0 and Norton IS 2004 during the past few months. I have returned to SystemSuite with its Trend Micro anti-virus and Sygate firewall. I have been using the various versions of SystemSuite for the past 4 years and

User Rating: 4/10

wha6 a headacheby - November 24, 2003

Pros: in theory this is the best antivirus/antispam/firewall on the market

Cons: same thing that everyone else says: it is an absolute nightmare. constant crashes, slows down webbrowser etc. NIS 2003 worked great for me. I am going to stick with 2003 until Symantec figures out what's going on.

User Rating: 9/10

Works great and no problemsby - November 24, 2003

Pros: Everything works as it should. I avoided all the problems people with negative comments had because I read the 200 page user manual prior to installing it. You need to know what you are doing if you want it to work right! I have Windows XP with a 2 GHz pe

Cons: None. I can't comment on support because I didn't need any support after reading the manual.

User Rating: 4/10

OK Product - not greatby - November 21, 2003

Pros: does the job. great spam filter.

Cons: Does indeed slow down browsing experience, but can deal with it. At times can make the system unstabe, but very easy to restore. After my year is up, will not renew subscription. Going to find better alternative.

User Rating: 3/10

Not worth the time, money, or troubleby - November 20, 2003

Pros: Reasonably priced considering all the features you get.

Cons: Very unstable. Constantly gives errors that require a re-install to fix. Even when it is working it causes so many headaches I want to scream. Web browsing gets slowed down so bad you might as well get a 56K dial-up connection.

User Rating: 6/10

great but does it ever slow down your pcby - November 7, 2003

Pros: still the best if it was NIS 2003

Cons: it slows your web browser to a near halt,tried every configuration to fix it but to no evail.Think i'll try zonealarm pro 4.0 and give my copy of NIS 2004 to my brother as a christmas gift(lol)

User Rating: 2/10

Faulty product-do not buy!by - October 27, 2003

Pros: The bundle makes sense, the interface is straight-forward, and regular updates SHOULD make this a great product. However...

Cons: This product is currently faulty, and Norton are unable to fix the problem. They have introduced product activation, but it fouls up on some laptops. My laptop is unprotected despite my spending £50 on this product & hours on their support helpline an