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| From: Symantec
List Price: $79.99
Buy New: $33.99
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Rating:  206 reviews
Sales Rank: 111
Format: Cd
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp Professional, Windows Xp Home Edition, Microsoft Xp Media Center Edition
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.5 x 1.4
MPN: 11889178
Model: 11206515
UPC: 037648318495
EAN: 0037648318457
ASIN: B000NA780M
Release Date: March 10, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New. Comes in original sealed CD Sleeves with Product Key. Physical manual included. No rebate inside. UPC code & Proof of Purchase gently removed for promotional purposes. Retail Packaging Removed for Shipping Convenience. Guarantee satisfaction!!! We ship fast with delivery confirmation by email. No APO. Shipping to Continental US Territory Only. Thanks!
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| Customer Reviews:
 Never again June 17, 2007
Charles E. Brown
21 out of 25 found this review helpful
I am a programmer as well as a user of Norton products for many years. While I started to see a slip in quality with Internet Security 2006, nothing prepared me for this poorly done program.
I installed this program right after I installed Windows Vista Ultimate. Installation was quite smooth and, for the first couple of months everything worked out well. I then started to notice my computer slowing down. Finally, the slowness got out of control.
I decided to uninstall Norton 360 to see if that was the cause. The uninstall was anything but smooth and Norton left a large number of files still installed and an even larger number of keys in the registry: so much so that Windows still saw the Norton 360 Firewall as running.
I contacted their technical support. To say they were unhelpful would be a complement. They showed an ignorance and arrogance like I have never seen before. They even called me "uncooporative".
It took me 7-hours and a great deal of research to fully uninstall this awful software (I might have been better off reformatting).
Needless to say, Norton 360 was the cause of the slowness.
I will never use another Symantec product nor will I recommened any of them to others. This company does not deserve to be in business.
More like Norton 180 August 24, 2007
George C. Targonski (Sayreville, NJ)
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
Norton 360 comprises four integrated modules:
(1) PC Security is excellent
(2) Transaction Security is very good
(3) PC Tuneup is useless
(4) Backup and Restore is dreadfully bad.
(1) PC Security includes antivirus, firewall, spyware scanning and email scanning. Norton is known for having the best Antivirus software on the market - if you believe the reviewers at cNet, PC Magazine and others (I do). I had been using Norton Antivirus and Norton Utilities for almost 20 years. They did have a problem a few years back, when installing the product would often crash the computer, and uninstalls required manually editing the registry. Still, Norton ALWAYS protected against viruses. A couple years ago, Symantec fixed these install and unistall problems, but still, Antivirus hogged system resources which slowed the computer down significantly. All these problems seem to be fixed now in 360. (I have been using 360 for two weeks.)
(2) The Transaction Security module is an anti-phishing filter. Over the last couple weeks, the thing popped up a few times, warning that I surfed to a site that was asking for personal information, but whose security information changed from the prior screen. Each time I was about to place an order from a small-name vendor who redirected me to a web commerce site. Who knows - I could have been sent to a site with a .ru extension!
(3) The PC Tuneup module consists of four components: (A) Clean Up Internet History, (B) Clean Up Intenet Temporary Files, (C) Clean Up Windows Temporary Files, and (D) Disk Optimization. Vista and XP do this anyway for free. Why no registry cleaner? Why no duplicate file finder? The Tuneup module is useless.
(4) Backup and Restore is poorly written, confusing, and gives a false sense of security. It seems to be a front-end for Symantec to sell web storage space on their servers, for a fee. The interface is ridiculously slow and confusing. Simply calling the module up causes it to search the entire hard drive for 15 minutes. If you change the backup schedule and want to check if it is set up properly causes another 15 minute search - on a brand new HP dual core PC. Traditionally, there are two ways of backing up: Full Backup and Incremental. You do a full backup, say, once a week (which takes several hours), and incremental backups daily. If the hard drive crashes, you simply restore the full backup and any incrementals. The 360 interface makes it look like this is the case, but this is not true. The instructions say that "full" and "quick" backups are set up and run independently, but this is not true. A schedule can only be set up for one backup method at a time. And "full backup" still presents you with choices of what types of files to backup - which means it cannot be doing a FULL full backup! I guess "full backup" means only ONLY your data is safe, whereas "quick backup" means SOME of your data is safe. In either case, operating system files a drivers are not backed up. You can manually select the whole drive with hidden switches, but such a complete backup will takes hours each day. What seems dangerous is that the uninformed user might feel that checking all the little boxes in "what to back up" means everything IS backed up. Not so.
One half of Norton 360 is very good - which is why it should be called Norton 180. You are covered only halfway. Look for backup elsewhere. I will go with Roxio Backup MyPC when it becomes available for Vista.
Very sorry I bought it April 24, 2007
Ben (New York, NY United States)
20 out of 24 found this review helpful
Looks nice... but beware!
Installed Norton 360 on the 6 workstations in our small office. As soon as I did that our accounting system (Peachtree) started to lock up a few times a day. Even after turing off the firewall on all workstations the accounting system still locked up.
I've now uninstalled Norton 360 on the server PC and that seems to have solved the problem.
I wish now that I had just upgraded from Norton Internet Security 2005 to 2007... Never again.
You Will Need to Buy a New Computer if You Use This Software May 1, 2007
J. Potocki (Stolen Native American Land)
16 out of 20 found this review helpful
Since I make my living off of my computer as a writer, I thought I would upgrade my protection and as I've been a fan of other Norton Products (now Symantec) I thought 360 sounded like a great deal.
I have a computer with an 80 gig hard drive, 512ram and 1.5 GhZ. Not a hoss daddy computer but a decent one none the less and it was working just fine prior to the installation.
I downloaded the software off the net and that was the last time my computer was able to connect to the Internet. I finally called Symantec support and was instructed to remove the 360 program and then reinstall it. I did so and it was worse - the system just went into initialization mode and then rebooted again and again. The Symantec support tech said I had a problem unrelated to the software and I needed to contact Dell and my ISP. So I contacted Dell and the technician said that he had handled other calls similar to mine and he showed me where the 360 software had disabled the network adapters and couldn't connect to the Internet and therefore was attempting to connect over and over.
I contacted my ISP and upon saying I had just installed Norton 360, was taken to my network adapters page where he confirmed Norton had disabled each and every one.
Another call to Symantec proved fruitless, I was instructed to remove the 360 one more time (which we managed to do by restoring the computer to a previous date and it didn't really work but it enabled us to un-install the program) and the technician told me since I had un-installed the program my technical issues weren't going to be handled by Symantec, thank you and have a nice day.
So I contacted the VP of Investor Relations and she referred me to a guy in the Executive Consumer Relations Team who described installing Norton 360 as "like putting a nuclear submarine in a lake". He also told me if I had an existing small issue in my computer this could have aggrivated it and caused it to escalate.
It is my humble opinion that this program is garbage and was released on an unsuspecting public without much testing. I Googled Norton 360 and came up with numerous complaints very similar to my own. Please don't spend your money on this ill-designed software or you'll be buying a new computer like I am.
Auto Update Corrupted a Windows XP system May 15, 2007
S. Fox (TX)
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
I used norton 360. A month or so after installing it, it stopped my browsing capability. Completely.
I couldn't launch its configuration utilities, I couldn't uninstall it. Attempting to do so would result in a process starting, but no interface ever being displayed. When I attempted to uninstall in safe-mode, it told me to reboot to normal mode and uninstall... What an idea.
This product is utter [..]. I will never disgrace my system with a norton bloatware product again.
If I could have given it fewer stars, I would.
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