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Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2007

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Very Good
  • Pros
  • Excellent virus detection
  • Good design
  • Cons
  • High renewal and support costs
  • Slow signature updates
Performance
Renewal cost, per year$39 (3/31/07)
Ease of useSuperior
Malware detection rate: Malware detection tests used AV-Test.org's collection of 884,164 malware samples.96%
File viruses92%
Macro viruses100%
Script viruses98%
Polymorphic viruses100%
ActiveX controls100%
Back doors94%
Bots/zombies99%
Trojan horses96%
Adware97%
Dialers97%
Number of false positives (out of 20,000 harmless files)3
Heuristic detection (one-month-old signatures)49%
Heuristic detection (two-month-old signatures)43%
Detection rate of malware within archived files84%
Detection rate of existing infections (10 infections)100%
Disinfection rate (files, Hosts changes, Registry items)82%
Average time (in hours) to deliver signatures for new malware10 to 12
Right-click manual scans in Windows Explorer?Yes
E-mail protocols scannedPOP3, SMTP
Scan Web traffic?Yes
Scan speed with standard settings, in seconds40
With Firefox 213%
With Adobe Photoshop CS215%
With Microsoft Office 200310%
Daily support hours24
Saturday support hours24
Sunday support hours24
Free phone supportNo
Toll-free phone numberYes
Cost of phone support$10 (installation and bug issues free)
Live chat support?Yes
E-mail support?Yes
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User Reviews for Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2007

  • Reviewed by: verdunwatts

    Duration of ownership: 2 Years

    Strengths: I loved the programs for Norton SystemWorks but the 2007 version kept crashing and finally locked up my computer. Got it off of my system and got a refund from Norton but...

    Weaknesses: The Norton SystemWorks programs kept crashing and finally locked up my system which has more than enough horsepower to handle it. Also getting it off of my system took a lot more work than I would expect.

    Overall Evaluation: I would expect that Norton will clean up this product or take it off of the market. I have probably used prior versions for over 10 years. Very dissappointed.

  • Reviewed by: aungmoe

    Duration of ownership: 2 Days

    Strengths:

    Weaknesses:

    Overall Evaluation: I bought Norton AntiVirus 2007 which Symantec says is Windows Vista ready. I downloaded the vista update for Norton AntiVirus 2007 from Symantec website as advised. But my Windows Vista says that the downloaded file is not suitable for this version of Windows. So, I can't even install the Norton AntiVirus 2007. I felt cheated and looked for the recommendations of good anti-virus softwares. I found that PC World has awarded Best Buy to Kaspersky Anti-Virus and I downloaded and installed it. The installation was very smooth and easy. Kaspersky works well with Vista and now I am happy.

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