As dictated in the fine print of my contract as the local friendly neighborhood computer geek ,this time of year I get inundated with everyone's new PC's and laptops they received for the holidays. I take the machines, clean out the bloatware , make them more user friendly and hand them back to their excited owners. Along the way I inevitably run across a preinstalled Norton product, which this year I decided I would try to take the time to learn the interface, set it up properly and really give it a chance; based primarily on Gil's love and unwavering faith in the product line. Well, after almost an hour inside the interface, I surrender. it ( the 360 product) getting uninstalled and going right back into the Hate-bin, and I'm picking up the "Norton's blows really, really hard" flag once again. Here's why:
No access to fine tune settings whatsoever. No control panel No ability to set up and save custom scans No ability to turn down the notifications Pop up city from the task bar with nags ( note to developers: silent programs = good programs ) Unclean uninstall. this crap left half a dozen start up elements I had to manually remove via autoruns. Intrusive behavior in internet explorer, and the shell. Doesn't ask permission to do things; it just does them. Spam. I registered under one of my hotmail accounts and despite every opt-in being unchecked, I received *8* emails in less than 20 minutes from them. The general vibe from the software that they know better than I do as to what is "safe" for my PC. Now, I'm sure all these things could be addressed somehow, but at this point why bother? Is it really too much to ask to make these sort of adjustments available ( and easily available ) to those of us who want them? Do they really have to be hidden? The really sad part of all of this is that it's very likely it's a great product that would do a fine job, but the combination of everything above has not only earned it 'insta-delete' status, but has cost Norton's around 40-50 new licenses as people tend to buy what I recommend to them. It's a shame. Adios Norton 360, maybe next year. Dave David Smith Systems Administrator Doan Family of Dealerships (585) 352-6600 ext.1730 [email protected] www.upstatedigitools.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/000f01c96a7b$94b5bdb0$be2139...@com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
