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Symantec Norton Confidential 2007

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Pros
Real-time site analysis
Clear alert messages
Cons
Expensive
No Firefox support

$4.99 - $12.00
From 4 Merchants

User Reviews for Symantec Norton Confidential 2007

Reviewed by: dvilledoc

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: It's "Norton"

Weaknesses: Not particularly useful, and made my system run very s-l-o-o-o-o-w

Overall Evaluation: It sounded good in the ad. I downloaded this onto my Mac (OS 10.4) and in setting it up began to wonder what it was going to do for me that common sense wouldn't. It "keeps my sensitive information from being sent out" for instance. Hey, I'm the one sending it.And then I began to notice that my system had slowed considerably. The Mac "mail" utility took forever to send an outgoing mail, and it finally dawned that maybe Norton Confidential was reviewing everything I sent before letting it go.Long story short, I uninstalled the utility, things are running fast, and I'm happy. I like the Norton Antivirus for the Mac, but this one's a bust.
Reviewed by: liuspring

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: password management if it works properly

Weaknesses: feels like it is still in beta test

Overall Evaluation: I did not expect too much from it for antispyware but I do want Norton confidential could help me in password management. Its malfunction and its impact on the browser speed really make it like a malware. Stay away from it until Symantec takes this product seriously.
Reviewed by: SC4SHURA

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: None

Weaknesses: Unstable. Difficult to use. Does not install on non-english Windows.

Overall Evaluation: At first, I wanted to use this product on my laptop with Japanese Windows XP, but the CD refused to install the product because the Windows is not Englsh version. So I had no choice but to install it on my desktop. Though it provided all the promised functions, it took up much of resources, and slowed down the whole system.
Reviewed by: helwig

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: In theory has some useful features

Weaknesses: In reality, I'm not sure what this is good at. Also, it uses too many system resources

Overall Evaluation: I'm not quite sure why you would want this product. It is supposed to help manage passwords, save you from phishing, and all kinds of good things. In reality it isn't overly useful and just slows down your machine. I expected better from Symantec since they usually product fairly solid products. This one is a disappointment.
Reviewed by: pinks2n

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Nothing

Weaknesses: Please don't make the purchase.

Overall Evaluation: As I said before don't purchase this software, whatever price U get. This software is not at all good. Can't find or catch all the virues and fraud sites. It gave me hard time to install and after I was done my system perfomance became slow very slow. U can't compare this software with any other symantec product. It is not even near to them. There is only onething good about this software is, defenitely we are sure that we will never ever buy this software at any cost. That it makes sure. Nothing good about it.

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