Norton Security Scan - Symantec’s Foot Back In the Door?

Back in the days when Peter Norton actually had something to do with the company, Norton computer products, primarily Utilities, but then Antivirus, were the ones to get. Their only serious competition was from Central Point Software, which, unfortunately was bought up by Symantec also.

For several years now, by my reckoning, since 2003, the Norton Utilities have been warmed over Windows utilities, barely better than the Microsoft items they replace, and the Antivirus offering has has less than stellar detection rates, and slowed even the speediest systems to a crawl.

The latest revision of the Norton Software, the so-called 360 product revision 3, is trying desperately to inure the customer’s system against all manner of problems, without the terrible performance penalties of the last few revisions. In doing so, it might once again crawl its way back up the heap of solutions for the customer’s utility dollars.

Because many will not allow the Utilities on their system because of the extreme difficulties of removing the traces of them (making the need for a completely separate utility to remove the problem parts and registry details, which Symantec begrudgingly supplies) lots of prospective buyers will not use any trial version.

So, Symantec now has an application that is lightweight, and gives a much needed second opinion with many other antivirus solutions. It will not interfere will the other solutions, as it has no memory resident portion. The software must be purposely started by the user, and can give a heads up to any nastiness unfound normally, or a thumb up or down on a false positive.

Sure, there are banner ads, but since the product can be minimized, doing that makes the annoyance factor go down enough to be palatable for even the most finicky user.

A good idea if you have problems, suspect your choice of AV software isn’t up to snuff, or are considering giving Symantec products a second chance.

clean interface, and not too annoying, but if it is, you can minimize the whole thing

To try it, go here -

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If you don’t like it, you can uninstall, and either use the Symantec Uninstaller (Norton Removal Tool), or Revo Uninstaller ( http://www.revouninstaller.com/download/… ), which works very well also.

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