Canon Puts Efficiency On Press
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"It is like having spyware and have to pay for it." on by PKo607
Pros: A lot of features that useful.
Cons: Lack of common senses support; Not easy to use as advertised.
Summary: Norton 360 2.0, after I installed it; put my system to a crawl. Take 2-3 minutes to load web-page, open up Outlook, and others application.
Support is terrible. I submit for money back, and instead I got an e-mail from the support on how to config the software; which I already know from their knowledgebase. No follow up after I respond to them.
I would not recommend this software to anyone; unless they have time to kill all day. -
"Norton 360 2.0 is a resource hog" on by shadywood
Pros: It is no longer on my notebook
Cons: It impacts your system like it is malware
Summary: I am a Norton Utilities and Antivirus user from way back in the DOS days. I was actually more of a fan of Norton products. They were great. Reliable. Efficient. They did the job.
I migrated over time to many version of Norton products. I really liked that earlier version of Systemworks that ran on W95 and W98. With the Systemworks that was designed for XP, I noted a reduction of functionality. My last version of Systemworks was version 2003. An okay version, but not as useful as 2001.
I decided earlier this year to upgrade to Norton's latest utilities. After all, I was loyal and I trusted Norton. I went with Norton 360 2.0.
Prior to making my purchase decision, I did research the reviews on many sites. I saw mixed reviews that ranged from "works great" to "I had so many problems that I had to uninstall it". The reviews were for version 1. At the time there were no reviews for 2.0. I needed to upgrade to something and decided to take a plunge with 2.0. Remember, I was a loyal Norton user. I figured/hoped that Norton would have addressed the problems and criticisms on version 1. It was Norton after all!
My loyalty and blind faith in Norton was a blunder. This program is a pig. It uses enormous quantities of resources, When it runs scans you can just forget about doing anything else. It often will take a huge slices of CPU time just to check the status of its components. It is not a good neighbor with your other applications. When it wants to run, it runs and takes everything with it. It acts like it is the most important application on your computer. Its just a utility and needs to accept that status and run in the background at a lower priority.
It is very difficult to minimize its impact your system. You can set some functions to manual including updates and scans. However, it is always trying to reset everything to automatic. Hit "fix" on one of the warning flags and all of the automatic settings are restored.
I had to go into Task Manager or Services on occasion to kill Norton 360 processes in order to get things done that I needed to do at that moment. If I didn't stop the offending Norton 360 process, some of my applications that did real work for me would not run properly (they would run excruciatingly slow). I can not imagine what users that did not have the systems background would do. They were/are just screwed.
I have decided to go elsewhere for my security needs. The Norton that I trusted and liked does not exist anymore. RIP. -
"Norton 360 Sucks Don't Buy!" on by DigPicPhoto
Pros: None at all stay away fron Norton
Cons: Bad product, pleanty of nag screens.
Summary: Supports sucks, can't understand them, removal of Norton 360 took 12 hours, never again will we buy a norton, buyer beware!
I guess CNEt is on the payroll, how could anyone rate this a good product. -
"bogs you down" on by tfarney
Pros: has all the goodies you might want
Cons: chews up processor time
Summary: I put this on a p4 2.4 GHz machine and suddenly it stopped (or seemed to)...
much CPU usage as task manager measured it that it seemed to shut the machine down for minutes at a time -
"Horrible and CNet should be embarrassed" on by eaglesinnc
Pros: All-in-one
Cons: uses up 99% of the processor
Summary: Boy I wish I had read some of these reviews before I bought this product. I don't get how CNet can give it such a high rating when so many users have had problems with it. For me, 360 ended up using 98-99% of the processor for about 36 hours until I uninstalled it. I couldn't do anything on the pc while it was there. One of the other reviewers said it doesn't play well with QuickBooks and maybe that's the issue, but I bought this to be a simple, all-in-one problem solver and it became part of the problem instead. For a small, startup business spending 80 dollars on something I can't use is not making me happy right now..
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