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Norton 360 (3 User Licence) (PC)
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4 new or used available from £38.99
Average customer review:
Includes antivirus, anti-spyware, firewall, intrusion protection, vulnerability detection and anti-phising technology.
Combined with cheap laptop insurance, this will offer full protection for your computer.
Product Description
NORTON 360 RET IN
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #955 in Software
- Brand: Norton from Symantec
- Released on: 2007-03-09
- Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows XP Professional
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, 2.42 pounds
Features
- Norton 360 (EN) WinXP/Vista
- Norton 360 EN WinXP/Vista
Editorial Reviews
Manufacturer's Description:
Norton 360 is designed to deliver all-in-one security for everything the computer users in your family care about. Easy to use, it helps provide automatic and transparent protection from viruses and spyware, fraudulent Web sites, phishing scams, hackers, identity theft, and more. With a renewable subscription, up to three PCs in your household can be provided the Norton 360 protection, safeguarding your family when they play games, send and receive email, download files, chat, or surf the Web. And transaction security features will allow you to shop and bank online with confidence.
Norton 360 also helps keep your PCs tuned for peak performance and safeguards the data on them by making it easy to back up photos, music, financial documents, and other files and restore them at any time. Flexible options allow you to back up your files to CD, DVD, and USB devices. For even more convenience, you can also set up automatic backups to an attached hard drive or a secure onl! ine storage service* to safeguard your important files in the event something happens to your PC. And for enhanced performance, a smart background scheduler automatically schedules key Norton 360 functions such as scans, backups, and tune-ups so that they don’t interfere with your PC activities.
*Requires high-speed Internet access; 2 GB online storage included, with option to purchase more.
Manufacturer's Description:
Norton 360 is all-in-one protection that keeps you, your family, your PC, and your information protected so that you can freely engage in your everyday online activities without worry. This comprehensive solution combines Symantec’s proven, industry-leading security and PC tune-up technologies with new automated backup and anti-phishing technologies to protect your valuable data and to help guard you against identity theft. As a comprehensive security solution Norton 360 eliminates the need to purchase and manage multiple products and provides you with a full circle of protection in one highly automated service that:
Defends your PC against a broad range of threats
Norton 360 utilizes Symantec’s leading security technologies to intercept a range of threats including hackers, viruses, worms, and Trojan horses. It also detects and blocks spyware and other unwanted programs that can steal your identity or slow down your computer’s performance.
Safeguards you against online identity theft
New innovative technologies detect and prevent online fraud and phishing attacks to help protect your online identity. Norton 360 provides zero-hour threat protection by authenticating popular shopping and banking Web sites automatically, and by detecting fraudulent sites using advanced detection technologies.
Protects your important files from loss
Automated backup and recovery features help make sure that your important photos, files, and music are safe and secure so you can share and enjoy them and not worry about them being lost. Norton 360 discovers any new files and backs up that data automatically. It supports both local (external drives, CD/DVD, home network) and online backup locations. Once set up, the online backup option requires virtually no user intervention. Norton 360 enables you to conveniently store data to a secured online storage service so that you can easily restore your information when you need it.
Keeps your PC tuned up for peak performance
Integrated maintenance and optimization tools keep your computer running at its best. Clutter such as unwanted or temporary files are automatically cleaned up for you and your disk will be optimized in the background.
Provides a hassle-free user experience
The easy to understand user interface helps provide you with peace-of-mind by clearly indicating what activities are safe and how Norton 360 is providing continuous protection. You will not be bothered with constant alerts because Norton 360 automatically resolves a vast majority of security, backup, and PC tune-up issues quietly in the background.
Protects against the latest online threats
Delivered as an annual subscription service, Norton 360 automatically makes available to active subscribers both definition updates and product upgrades, helping to protect you from the latest online threats.
Customer Reviews
Norton 360 online backup does not work
I have to agree with the first reviewer - the antivirus product is great, but the Online Backup (which was the main reason I bought this product) does not work. I have also purchased additional storage twice, reactivated the product numerous times, had the storage refunded and purchased it again, and removed and reinstalled the programme. 3 weeks in it still doesn't work. In addition the support team is in India and calls and emails in the middle of the night! The support is very poor, with technical support telling you to contact customer support and vice versa. They repeatedly tell you to do things you have already done and which do not work the third, fourth or tenth time you do them. I will keep you posted to let you know if this is resolved or I just give up!
Do NOT buy Norton 360!
Do yourself a big favour, believe me, and DO NOT BUY Norton 360.
Here's why:
* The programme (as downloaded or on the CD) includes a major bug that, unbelievable as it sounds, makes it incompatible with Internet Explorer 7 for secure webpages (like for example Amazon!). There is now a patch for this, pumped out via LiveUpdate. However, this failed to register with my installation. After several inconclusive support chats, I was eventually told to uninstall and reinstall the entire program, and only then did the update succeed.
* The online update function that should allow you to backup your files to an online account (2 GB are included for free with Norton 360) is fundamentally broken (and a Norton technical analyst eventually acknowledged as much in a support chat).
* The backup server seems to be frequently down.
* I tried to buy additional online backup storage space, paid Symantec my money, but never received my storage space. Technical support told me to wait. Nothing happened. Technical support cancelled the order and told me to re-order the additional online storage space, which I did. I again did not receive the space I had paid for. Technical support told me to wait for a server upgrade. Nothing happened. Norton support then told me to reactivate the product (no success), reinstall the product (no success), and reinstall the product again, this time with a file cleaning routine (no success either). At that point they stopped responding to my e-mails while still having the money I paid them for something I didn't get. I eventually had to call customer care for a second refund. You cannot actually buy more storage space.
* While Norton technical support is happy to instruct you to reinstall, they don't tell you that this breaks the link to whatever files you've already backed up in your 2 GB online account - you can't get to them anymore and you can't delete them, which means you also can't free up space anymore, so you can't work within the 2 GB. Technical support was unable to address the issue and told me instead that trying to back up large chunks of data crashes the system. It is unclear to me how this relates to the reinstallation problem, but since with Norton 360 default settings its Norton 360 and not the user that decides when and how much to back up, that simply means their software is broken.
* I once e-mailed technical support with a simple question (my mistake, I could and eventually did find the answer on the internet). I received an automatic reply, prominsing me a response within 24 to 48 hours. Instead I got one, at this point rather unexpectedly, after over a month!
Ironically for a program that is supposed to run quietly in the background, I've never ever spent that much time and effort on the malfunctions of any piece of software. Conceptually, Norton 360 may be an alluring proposition, but in its current state the software belongs deep into beta testing and nowhere near a consumer. You can save many valuable hours of your life by staying clear of this product.
Surely this product is unfinished ?
I bought this product after encountering trouble and then lack of faith in, PC Guard the free software from Virgin media. I, being a complete technophobe in terms of software, put my trust in a Norton product. what a mistake.
It all went on easy enough but when I did a manual update for virus deinitions, I kept getting an "Error 5" message. So, thinking I did something wrong, I pressed the auto fix button. This in turn said that I had " a critical componant out of date" despite my PC being fairly new. So, the program automatically puts you through to Norton for either a telephone call / email/ instant messenger enquiry. I chose to instant message, as i wanted it done and dusted and feared for my PC for having "an out of date componant".
What happened next happened TWICE over the evening. I waited from about #40 to speak to an operator, who seemed to be in Asia judging by their names. They then took remote access of my PC and could not gain any further with their pursuit, then only advising me to uninstall, clean out Norton from the registry then re-install and reboot. Obviously by rebooting this ended any conversation with Norton support, making me wait in another queue for approx an hour. After losing it with it, I left it on in its current form for the night before getting rid in the morning for another product.
However, try 'Googling' Norton 360 and Error 5 messages........it then becomes apparent that there is a problem with this product. I can only summize that this is known, considering PC World exchanged it with the seal broken, on display of pages, pages of print off's of the said problem from various forums.
I swopped it for Kaspersky Internet Suite and that has run like a dream.
