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by Anonymous User on Tue Oct 10, 2006 at 06:23:27 AM PDT

I am a techie. Symantec products have become bloated resource hogs. The Internet Security package will slow boot times by 60%. Additionally I have found that the upgrade via online will bork a PC real quick. What happens is the uninstall of the previous version is incomplete and the install of the new over the remnants freaks everything out. OF course theres the issue of the forced upgrades. When NIS 2006 came out anyone using 2004 or earlier got screwed as the regular updates being pushed by Norton broke them. The Norton trouble shooting is a joke. No matter what path you follow you end up at uninstall/reinstall. The Norton uninstall tool has never worked. It always takes a manual uninstall complete with registry edits to completely remove the damn thing. Live update constantly breaks. The activation keeps forgetting the product was activated. I don't know that any all in one product is any better. I have never been a big fan of somehting that promises to do everything. I find they do nothing well, just everything half assed. I personally never use nor recommend anything from Symantec. I have seen NAV detect something as simple as VunDo but be unable to remove it. Doesn't prompt for a reboot to remove items resident in memeory that are detected...just shows detected and leaves you on your own. As far as I am concerned NONE of the big name companies products are worth buying.

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by Anonymous User on Tue Oct 10, 2006 at 01:12:58 PM PDT

I concur - LiveUpdate gets hosed; activation gets messed up. The ActiveX programs that are supposed to help you are deathly - I used one to upgrade LiveUpdate at the request of the help page and I ended up having to uninstall/run a separate uninstall from Symantec/manually edit the registry and then reinstall everything to get it to work for another 90 days (LiveUpdate broke with LU1815 a week ago). The tech support is as bad as Dell support - I have more success (yes, I'm a techie too) on my own than with them. Symantec has become a joke - but McAfee is far worse - I disabled SpamKiller because it was actually crashing my system because it used so many CPU cycles - couldn't do PowerPoint slide shows in real time with it running.

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by maderikapapa on Sat Jun 28, 2008 at 12:52:53 AM PDT

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by maderikapapa on Sat Jun 28, 2008 at 12:51:21 AM PDT

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