Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2009

Norton AntiVirus 2009 provides fast and up to the minute defense against all types of malicious software. It keeps your system protected without slowing it down.

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• Reviewed by: disgusted1974

  12-27-08

  Duration of ownership: 5 Days

  Strengths: UNSURE CUZ IT WON'T INSTALL

  Weaknesses:WAY TOO LONG TO INSTALL AND YOU HAVE TO REMOVE WAY TOO MANY PROGRAMS

  Overall Evaluation: "easy to install"!!! NOT!!!! Norton products used to work fine, but i've experienced nothing but trouble lately. Last year's Norton 360 fiasco and now NAV2009. NAV2009 does not install easy. maybe it does on a new computer with nothing else loaded. I've been chatting with Symantec tech support for over 4 hours on two separate occaisions. They had access to my computer and still can't install NAV2009. IMHO, if you have a norton virus program running now, just pay for the subscription to be extended. I wouldn't upgrade unless you want to lose use of your computer and spare time.

• Reviewed by: pnghiem

  06-05-09

  Duration of ownership: 7 Months

  Strengths: New and improved; fast; lean and easy to install.

  Weaknesses:Haunted by previous resource hog versions.

  Overall Evaluation: In the last few years as a long time users of Norton's products, I have reluctantly switched to other antivirus programs because Norton Antivirus was well-known as a resource hog. Listening to users' complaints, Norton has dramatically improve its virus scan engine to the point that it is now the fastest Antivirus product on the market. It uses much less memory than competitors with its smaller file-size while speeding up the scanning time as well as installing time. The use of Norton Insight to identify trusted files on the computer cut scanning times by almost 90%. This new and improved version of NAV 2009 has successfully lured me back to use Norton AV and IS products again.

• Reviewed by: hjpospie

  02-13-09

  Duration of ownership: 5 Days

  Strengths: Many features and functions

  Weaknesses:Bugs and incompatibilities

  Overall Evaluation: After many positive descriptions i installed Norton Antivirus 2009 on my system(XP with SP2, 2.8 GHz, 2 MBytes). And then there were nasty problems: - SRTSP reported that it cannot find proper registry data and had to load default, - IE 7 did freeze and could not be stopped with task manager, only reset, - During system scan at approx one million files the program did not continue though progress bar was updating; again revery was only possible by reset. I was happy that i had made an image shortly befor installation so that i could easily go back to the stable configuration (wit Norton Antivirus 2008). The incompatibility with IE 7 is so critical that Antivirus 2009 is not really useable - maybe Symantec can repair this bug...

• Reviewed by: jimyster

  11-20-08

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  Strengths: Found a virus that a few other fully updated freeware scanners did not detect at all.

  Weaknesses:You'll want to download there latest version from the website. Then just use the serial number from the software shipped to install it.

  Overall Evaluation: I've used many different brands of anti virus software, and always return to Norton AV because I believe it to be the best. This product was ordered and shipped to me within one week.

• Reviewed by: daronxuan

  11-09-08

  Duration of ownership: 8 Years

  Strengths: No problems upgrading from Norton AntiVirus 2008.

  Weaknesses:None So Far

  Overall Evaluation: User interface on 2009 is completely different. I completely removed my Norton AntiVirus 2008 software BEFORE installing Norton AntiVirus 2009 on both my Desktop PC (Windows XP) and laptop PC (Windows Vista). The installation on both operating systems was successful. The features I was used to in the earlier versions are still available in 2009, you just have to look around in different places on the main menu to find them.Same as last year, the spyware protection included in Norton AntiVirus 2009 is most appreciated.I would have preferred keeping my old 2008 version for a second year, but the second year of Norton AntiVirus protection is so expensive, I found it cheaper to buy the new 2009 version for $49.99 from Fry's and submit two $20 rebates. Net cost for another year of protection = $9.99 plus tax.

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