Yep, those problems were "Then", a lot of changes. The whole Norton Utilities package is around 20MB and its not resource hungry as it used to be.
On 20/01/2013, at 6:56 PM, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > The problems I have with Norton Utilities are: > 1. They are incredibly resource-hungry > > 2. Symantec is not at all user-friendly in terms of support. > > 3. Their download policy of products which you purchase is disgusting. Even > if you have the base level install utility, if you suffer a system crash, > after a certain period of time you cannot download the product you bought any > more, so bang goes your installation. > > That, in my view, is not the right way to treat your customers. In view of > this last problem in particular, I stay away from Symantec's software > products. > > Of course, Symantec is taking over the world in terms of security products in > general. For instance, they hav recently acquired two certificate signing > authorities, GeoTrust being one of them. GeoTrust is the second largest > provider of security signing products behind Verisign. Thaut, (think I > spelled that correctly) is the third largest. GeoTrust's operations, thank > goodness, have not changed, and their technical support is still excellent. > That's why we continue to use that company for our SSL signing products. > However, I am continually watchful as I will change to another non-Symantec > owned company if the support policies change. > > Anyway, back to the topic under discussion. Naturally it's always > interesting to hear about people's experience of these things, and if the > product has changed in terms of its interaction with other products and with > the operating systems, so much the better. it is also true to say that one > can make a system level backup these days, so if the system breaks it should > be easy to roll it back and not have to worry about the downloading of the > software. So yes, that assertion could be slightly superfluous now. > However, speaking from a personal perspective, we have a lifetime license for > another product and it really couldn't be much better to be honest. It > doesn't keep popping up with needless windows as some other products of its > kind do. It just sits there and gets on with its job. So, Norton would > have to be blazingly good for me personally to consider switching. > > > On 19 Jan 2013, at 14:44, Dane Trethowan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! > > Its been a while since I've played with any versions of Norton Utilities, I > think its been a good 10 years in fact. > > I was sent a trial of Norton Utilities 15, its installed on one of my Windows > PC's and I'm very happy to report that the software seems quite accessible. > > No, you can't use the Tab key to get around but you can use your WE Cursor or > the JAWS cursor etc to navigate the screen and find out what all the options, > functions and settings are, as you move you'll hear brief help messages > pertaining to each function you move to. > > Will I buy Norton Utilities 15? Its a bit too early to say but I'll certainly > be interested to play with the software for the remaining 30 days. If I do > decide to buy then the $50.00 price tag certainly won't break the bank. > > > > ********** > > Dane Trethowan > Skype: grtdane12 > > > > > > ======================================= > > To post to this group, please send your message to: > [email protected] > The Windows-Access E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free > > To modify your subscription options, please visit your personalise subscriber > options page, located at > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/windows-access > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Windows-Access forum at > either of the following websites: > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/windows-access/index.html > Or: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> > > you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. 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