Product Description

NORTON 360 RET IN

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #147 in Software
• Brand: Norton from Symantec
• Released on: 2007-03-09
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows XP Professional
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Dimensions: .77 pounds

Features

• • PC security defends you against a broad range of threats• Transaction security safeguards you against online identity theft• Automatic back-up and restore protects your important files from loss• PC tune-up keeps your PC runnin

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

A whole Sunday wasted trying to sort out problems caused by this
I bought and downloaded version 2.0 without knowing Symantec had removed the pop-up blocking component. I then started logging on to sites I had used for three years without problems and all of a sudden, in the blank spaces were adverts. I could not stop them despite adjusting my blocking settings to maximum and had to contact Symantec via a chat room type thing. Everything they suggested I had already done and still nothing would solve the advert problem so after some time they then logged onto my pc, removed 360 version 2.0 and installed version 1.0. I could not do this myself with my own basic home-user technical ability: version 1.0 would not install while I still had 2.0, but it would not let me remove it while version 1.0 was trying to load up. Eventually version 1.0 was installed and it was a nightmare, slow in everything it did. Finally I did a back-up but when it had reached 6% after 25 minuted I decided I was not going to put up with this for the £120 and two years I had paid for and abandoned it. Now I've reclaimed my money and I'm looking elsewhere.

Outstanding, few small problems
I bought this in a deal when i bought my laptop. i was cautious towards Norton because i had Norton 2005 before this, which was extremely slow and sluggish. The installation speed was extremely slow, but much to my delight, installed properly first time, which is always nice!

Since then, in 14 months, i have never had one problem with my laptop, whether that was also down to the laptop being a Toshiba or not thats irrelevant. I can safely surf the web, buying my shopping online, which has even converted my parents to it!

The alert system is good, it alerts you when it finds a tracking cookie, and usually minimizes all programs just to make sure (which can be annoying!) Its scans are very simple to use, you can customize them really easily to suit you. i would give caution to people with just one processor, the scans are quite demanding on computing power! (doesn't bother me, i have a dual core!!) I have found the backup feature utterly pointless, they give you 2GB, and you have to update the backup every week, which you have to set up manually.
On to the best bits, it is very thorough! The scans clean up everything, from temperary files, to files you don't want, and the best part of the program, Disk Fragmentation. This makes your system run at optimal levels all the time, and this actually works! (I know MSFT has one but its crap!!!

Overall, its a very well developed piece of software, which caters for almost everything one could possibly need. Can't give it 5* because of the few little 'problems'. other than that, well worth the money

Too Many Problems
I have Run Norton 360 for a year on my laptop (work) and desktop PC (home) - not networked - and have had problems with Norton on both. On one it refused to do the automatic updates and Norton's fixes were no help. On both it slowed thing down and if I tried to send more than a few emails at one time, came up with a message "Norton has encountered a problem", and refused to send them, but never told me which ones - so I would have to resend everything. It really slowed down both PC's, especially on startup. I am deleting it from both and trying Windows OneCare.