Norton Antivirus 2003 - Symantec Review

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Norton Antivirus 2003 - Symantec
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Nerd3D's Review of Norton Antivirus 2003 - Symantec

11th Mar 2004

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Good Points

Um it's popular?


Bad Points

But popular doesn't make it good. It's very slow to load. A "context scan" takes way too long. It's very frail and often the target of scanner hostile viruses. It relies on IE for it's entire interface. This makes it even slower and more prone to breaking. The "live update" mechanism fails frequently, depriving paid up subscribers of their updated.

Most importantly is actually caused data loss, exactly what it's supposed to prevent. Symantec, go home and try again.


General Comments

I've been using Norton products for nearly 20 years. The latest batch of products saddens me. They have finally run me off. Even with current updates the Norton Antivirus 2003 - Symantec e-mail scanner was letting viruses through, then catching them latter as the e-mail client accessed the just-downloaded mail to display it. This usually caused something to crash.

I tried the official Symantec work-a-round of disabling the e-mail scanning completely. Yes, their official fix was to let your computer get infected then scan the virus out later. (Read it for your self here: http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/docid /2003013115102706 )
I doing this back door trick once NAV finally caught the virus as the mail client opened... It "fixed" the mail file be deleting 6 months worth of e-mail. That was the day NAV got uninstalled.

Their sloppy programming just did exactly what it was supposed to prevent. I'll never be back.

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  • blacknyellow on 7th Sep 2004

    I couldn't agree more. The one and only program that I had to completely disable on my firewall was Norton's update lucomserver.exe, because every time straight after switching on my computer it was spawning off information to all sorts of websites related to spyware - a thing I would have expected it to prevent rather than promote. It is running clean now, while I regularly update it manually - but this should simply not be the case, and I will uninstall Norton after my paid-up subscription runs out in a couple of months' time. Not again, thank you very much! Norton is just too expensive for capers of this sort.
    I am considering Panda Titanium 2004 at the moment instead...