Cheap Norton 360 All-In-One Security Annual Subscription - 3 PCs (Software) (Windows Vista, Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition, Microsoft XP Media Center Edition) Price

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Customer Reviews of Norton 360 All-In-One Security Annual Subscription - 3 PCs

Norton 360 Works Great
I downloaded the trial version of Norton 360 this past week after much research. I am using Norton 360 on my home PC running Windows XP (Pentium 4). I used to use ZoneAlarm and although it worked very well, it was a resource hog and bogged down my PC's performance. Also whenever I closed MS Outlook, my PC would lock up and I would have to force the PC to turn off. <
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>Since installing Norton 360, my PCs response time is much faster. I have no problems closing MS Outlook. I have no problems accessing my PayPal or any other online accounts (I use Firefox). <
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>I did download a freeware program to filter my junk e-mail as Outlook or Norton 360 was not doing an adequate job. <
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>I plan to purchase Norton 360 and feel it is a great program. There are so many variations in PC configurations that I am sure some of the complaints posted here are valid, but I did want to let you know that in my case, I will be purchasing Norton 360 as it is doing its job and not slowing my PC response time down. I enjoy how it runs in the background. <
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>So if you are not sure if this program will work for you, at least try the free trial of Norton 360 as I am very impressed with the program and the reviews.

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Worthless
It took me several days of online chat support to get this product installed. When it was finally installed, it did an initial deep scan, and passed the XP box with no sign of infection. The very next boot, it had been entirely disabled by whatever has infected the box. I strongly suggest you look elsewhere for your security needs. However, ZoneAlarm, which used to be an execellent product, may still be worth getting asneta separate product. It was, at one time, the very best firewall, for preventing rouge applications from turning your PC into a robot for some hacker. But, 360 is a very big disappointment. I wish I could give a strong recommendation to another vendor, but I have yet to find a product that finds the bug in my box.

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Takes 20 minutes to start your computer
I was using Norton SystemWorks 2006 until its subscription ran out. Norton SystemWorks meant I could not start working on anything for five minutes after turning my computer on. I understand that was because Norton GoBack was using up to 10 per cent of my hard disk space to record system changes. When I installed Norton 360, it uninstalled all previous Norton installations including GoBack, and took at least two hours to systematically obliterate the GoBack history, so I thought I would have a really fast start-up from now on. <
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>I was wrong. It now takes about twenty minutes until my computer will allow me to either connect to the Internet or start a program. The good news is that once it's running, the computer is moving much faster and is much more responsive than it was under Norton SystemWorks. <
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>Norton 360 offers 2GB of online storage and you can buy additional storage if you need it. I thought it was about time I had safe off-site storage for my valuable data. The FAQs say the data is transferred with 128-bit encryption and stored with 256-bit encryption so it's safe. It took the best part of a day to transfer my 1.2GB of data. The FAQs say the process could be slow because of asynchronous connections, i.e. your download speed is much faster than your upload speed. Fair enough. <
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>I then expected that files would automatically be added to the online storage. Apparently this is supposed to happen "when you are away from your computer." I was away from my computer a bit during the first five days after installation, but apparently for not enough time, because no backups took place. I checked backups and the last one was five days ago, but Norton 360 claimed a subsequent backup had been aborted because, presumably, I was using my computer. <
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>I clicked to run the backup now. This was a slow process, twenty minutes to half an hour, and I thought asynchronous transfer speed was again to blame. But no. This was just the time Norton 360 took to locate the 24 files it needed to back up. (I have not been awfully busy these last five days.) It then backed the files up (another twenty minutes) and Norton 360 reported on what it had backed up. It seemed to have picked the right files (I have now read another user review which claimed that Norton 360 had failed to back up files deliberately placed on a hard disk to test it.) Having done the backup and spent at least forty minutes doing so, I was able to turn off the computer and go to bed. <
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>Norton 360 seems to slow down the computer less than Norton SystemWorks, but the software seems to envisage that you never turn your computer off. If you have to turn the computer back on, it will take twenty minutes before you can get back to work. Norton 360 also seems to require vast amounts of time when the computer is turned on but inactive in order for it to decide to carry out what you had hoped would be automatic processes, such as backup, because these processes can abort if you are using your computer.