Entered CNET Catalog: 08/29/2003
SKU: 10103140
Manufacturer: Symantec Corporation
Manufacturer description
Symantec's Norton Internet Security 2004 Professional protects you and your business from online threats. It eliminates viruses automatically, blocks hackers, safeguards your personal information, fights spam, increases online productivity, recovers lost or damaged files, and thoroughly deletes confidential data you no longer need.User opinions
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User Rating: 
7/10
Best Security for Todays Systems
Pros: Many Security Features customizable between user accounts, Easy interface to understand with help on each page, smooth intergration with NSW 2004, easy updateing online.
Cons: System resources used (If run on an outdated machine, I recomend 512MB ram PC2100 or faster, P4 HT series/AthalonXP 2800+ or faster... Note: With all features installed on my machine uses 27MB of ram), complicity of advanced features may have unexperien
User Rating: 
4/10
slows down browsing (i have XP)
Pros: easy to install, configure and use.
Cons: Slows down my browsing like mad. These folks made a poor product. They know it slows down and they don't have a fix. I'm happy they owned up to it by posting it in their support section, however. As a first time customer of symantec, I'm pretty turned
User Rating: 
2/10
Is slowing my machince down terribly . . .
Pros: The Anti-Spam feature seems to work quite well
Cons: Sucks up my computers memory . . . everything takes longer . . . I had to remove it several times . . . am now waiting for a fix
User Rating: 
1/10
can not disable integration between NSW 2004 and NIS 2004
Pros: It was easy to install under administrator.
Cons: Program scan did not work. Can not disable integration between NIS and NSW. NSW do not run under power user accounts. Program do not unistall well and will not reinstall. Will messup computer registry. I returned the software (also NSW 2004 Pro.)
User Rating: 
3/10
Very buggy compared to the 2003 version
Pros: No learning curve to previous Norton IS users
Cons: Previous versions were great, so I uopgraded. A mistake. Web assistant icon disappears; anti-spam is no better than MS-Outlook at filtering and prominent AntiSpam toolbar cannot be permanently removed from Outlook; also results in extremely slow boot up
User Rating: 
8/10
Beats ZoneAlarm Pro
Pros: Norton Internet Security 2004 is the only firewall I?ve found that stops rogue programs and Trojans without constant pop-ups. The only way I could get ZoneAlarm Pro to stop ?Firehole? http://www.keir.net/firehole. html was to crank it up so high that I h
Cons: It?s worth noting that with ZoneAlarm Pro, Norton Internet Security 2004, or any other firewall that blocks pop-ups it will be necessary to customize some web pages; e.g., MSN Search with preview requires enabling the pop-up search window. This task has
