I got Norton 2009 Internet Security for my relatives' two machines and put the extra copy on one of mine that I use infrequently so I would have something to help troubleshoot with when he had problems. Since installation he's had no problems which is great compared to the problems he had as an inexperienced user of AVG AntiVirus and ZoneAlarm, which had trouble playing nice with each other toward the end.
To my surprise, the new Norton is extremely unobtrusive in its bootup times and operation. It has very little user tweaks and interaction, and seems to just do whatever it does transparently. The only glitch I've seen is one day it was unable to update after being off for a couple of weeks, and it popped up a message telling me so and that I should try to update again after waiting 24 hours. Don't know if this was a bug or SOP but it does seem ridiculous. At this point I would highly recommend this version to someone that had trouble or didn't want to be bothered with keeping the individual protection programs up to date and compatible. For myself, I still like knowing what's going on behind the scenes so I'll stick with what I'm currently using. I'd be more interested in the ZoneAlarm Extreme Security suite, if it ever gets reviewed and tested. Richard P. > Thanks for the heads up. Looks like a major rewrite, which it very much > needed. Hopefully it is no longer junk. >>Multiple recent reviews are giving Norton Internet Security 2009 top >>ratings, so I thought I'd make sure the list was aware of this. None >>of us has particularly liked Norton for several years now, but >>apparently they've gotten this newest one right. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
