Hi
After the numerous posts and many negative comments I had heard about
nortons 360 I had to check it out for myself. Some thing this evil had to be
seen in person. My test computer is a Pentium 4 at 3 GHz. It has 1 GB of RAM
and a 200 GB hard drive. It was recently upgraded from XP to windows 7. I
use JAWS 11 the latest version.
Now that we have the statistics on with my report. I loaded the demo
version of Nortons 360 from the nortons site. They usually put the latest
version out for the demos which only makes sense. I ended up with version 4.
I removed my Microsoft Securities Essentials anti virus and installed the
nortons 360. Other then having to respond to a UAC request from the windows
system and possibly having to use my JAWS cursor all went well. I should
mention that I am pretty comfortable using the JAWS cursor.
Next came the big test. Could I access the Nortons screen? Actually,
Yes! This is what I did. First switch to the JAWS cursor. Next, use JAWS key
plus r to go to unrestricted mode. After that it is just a matter of up and
down arrowing to find the items one wants. To go left and right do a JAWS
key plus left or right arrow.
I decided the most important thing was to do a complete scan of my
system. So, I located the appropriate section of the menu and pressed the
JAWS simulated left mouse click button. All the sudden it presented me with
another screen of scan options. I chose the deep scan option. Then at the
bottom of the screen I clicked the section to tell the program to continue.
The program asked if I wanted to set up my back up now. Since I didn't want
to create a back up of my data I clicked no. Next a screen appeared showing
all the things nortons 360 was handling for me. it had just down loaded the
latest virus definition version, it was scanning for viruses, it was going
to optimize my disk and so on. It was handling life on its own now.
Here is the situation. When my computer was an XP machine it developed
a strange thing where windows created backups of its files automatically.
Well, the first time it did this all went well but the second time it also
created backups of its backups. What ever it was backing up the files were
incredibly small because when I ran nortons 360 it scanned over 3,000,000
files. It located 12 tracking cookies. I used the JAWS cursor and the JAWS
left mouse click to easily run through the menus to delete the cookies.
The final complaint I heard was that nortons 360 made it take hours for
a computer to boot up. This turned out to be false for the test computer. It
actually booted faster then before.
Over all I am impressed with Nortons 360 and will probably buy it when
the trial period is done.
End of report.
God bless,
Mark
Jesus Is Lord!
Pendleton Redeemer
http://pendletonepiscopal.org/
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