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| Norton Internet Security 2008 up to 3 Users [OLD VERSION] | ![Norton Internet Security 2008 up to 3 Users [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41OnZfgRayL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | From: Symantec
Category: Software
List Price: $69.99
Buy New: $16.99
You Save: $53.00 (76%)
New (35) Used (7) from $13.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  187 reviews
Sales Rank: 237
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Color: 3-user
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 12608434
Model: 12608434
UPC: 037648617291
EAN: 0037648610070
ASIN: B000T9LUBU
Release Date: September 11, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Norton incompatible with... Norton! October 16, 2007
25 out of 32 found this review helpful
Gone are the days when a Norton/Symantec product could or should be trusted as an out-of-the-box standard. Long gone. Advice: spend another 10-15 minutes on the internet researching competitor's alternate products and avoid wasting $70 (before rebates, etc.) on this product.
The details:
Norton's latest (on my computer) product, NIS 2008, is incompatible with SystemWorks. Installation of NIS tells you to uninstall all Norton products. Another way to get you to buy yet another upgrade/replacement product? Ingenious revenue generation.
LiveUpdate, the feature that is supposed to keep your anti-virus definitions up to date, consistently crashes with well-publicized errors. Just google LiveUpdate or luall.exe
New "Auto-fix" feature advises that product should be uninstalled with every error message.
Support? You guessed it, India. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES ALLOW SYMANTEC SUPPORT TO INITIATE A REMOTE SESSION ON YOUR PC. They disable your keyboard and leave your PC running Buddha-knows-what diagnostics until the PC locks/crashes. Then, good luck trying to get Mushmed back on the phone.
Are you getting the picture?... "Raving" reviews must be from a) someone who has never used a previous Norton/Symantec problem and truly has no track record with the product family or b) an employee at this illustrious firm.
Sorry I can't rate this zero stars.
Beware of renewals October 9, 2007
34 out of 40 found this review helpful
I bought Norton Internet Security 2007 with protection for up to 3 PC's. My subscription is expiring and when I go to renew, I find out I have to pay $50 per PC to renew the subscription! Renewal does not buy you coverage for 3 PC's, but one! Symantec wants to you to buy a whole new product.
If Symantec advertises "Protection for up to 3 PC's," then renewal should cover 3 PC's also, not single. And they don't.
Poor quality and no technical support October 9, 2007
11 out of 22 found this review helpful
This is based on my experience with Norton Internet Security 2002. Symantec's products are of low quality, and technical support might as well be nonexistent. Furthermore, Symantec has a nice trick to force you to buy new versions of NIS every few years; it cuts off your ability to download virus updates for older ones.
I am currently relying on Frisk F-Prot for virus protection, so I no longer need Norton Antivirus (part of the NIS package). However, I am unable to uninstall it. If I disable the executable file (e.g. by changing the extension to NULL), it freezes all my Microsoft Office applications like Word, because they still request virus scans from Norton Antivirus.
In 2004, a Live Update from Symantec apparently caused Norton Internet Security to take over a good 99 percent of my computer's CPU while bringing Internet performance to a crawl. Symantec's technical support people ignored more than a dozen E-mails, and a fax to the tech support manager also went unanswered--thus suggesting that Symantec's contempt for its customers comes from at least middle management if not higher.
On the basis of my experience with this product, Symantec is permanently disqualified from selling me anything whatsoever in the future. Its contempt for its customers is quite obvious from its marketing practices (cutting off your ability to buy virus updates for older versions), not having any meaningful technical support, and peddling products that cannot even be uninstalled.
 Best security suite of 2008 October 8, 2007
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
My pc repair class has been reviewing 2008 Security Suites and NIS 2008 is the best. I decided to review Norton because I have hated Norton since the 2004 version. I had the AVG Suite on my computer, but the license was going to end so I decided to purchase NIS 2008 after reading the PCMag review. I installed NIS 2008 about a week ago. So far I have had some problems but none that were big. The install went very well and the startup scan found 3 viruses that AVG missed and found every other virus and spyware that I put on the machine. This version of Norton does not slow down the computer as much as the 2004-2006 versions did. The scans are very fast and detailed. I like the fact that there is an option that stops the pop ups from the firewall and lets Norton think for itself. But like I said before I had 2 problems.
The first problem was that the phishing protection didn't work when the crimeware protection was on. I chatted with Norton support for about 5 minutes and they solved the problem. The only bad thing about the support team is that they don't know a lot about the computer. Even so that doesn't seem to stop them from fixing the problems.
The second problem I had was the scheduled scans wouldn't run. I talked to several (4-6) tech people for about 3 hours and no one could solve the problem. When I talked to the last person he stated that the time in the scheduler was off and so was the date. He fixed it and now its fine.
 Disappointed October 7, 2007
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
After reading the glowing reviews I decided to finally upgrade from NIS 2005. As another reviewer stated, booting was very slow. At least the computer doesn't seem noticeably slower or faster.
I am disappointed that it no longer comes with ad blocking. Looks like to get that they want you to purchase Norton 360. I found a free Mozilla plugin that's supposed to block ads. Hopefully it'll do the job.
The only plus side is that I got it for free (after 2 rebates) and it didn't slow my computer (any more than it was already).
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