Norton 360 Security Suite launched by Symantec

[Schadenfroh]

DailyTech

Symantec today announced the availability of Norton 360, a solution that combines antivirus, antispyware, firewall, intrusion protection, anti-phishing, backup and tune-up, eliminating the need to purchase and manage multiple products.

CNET

The good: Norton 360 is mercifully light on system resources; it's intuitive, covers most of the bases that a comprehensive security-and-performance tool should, and includes free online storage.

The bad: Norton 360 doesn't support Firefox or Opera browsers; doesn't include wireless security tools, doesn't provide an ID vault for passwords or credit card info.

The bottom line: For home and student use, we think Norton 360 represents the best value for ease of use, tools offered, and overall system performance. We recommend it over McAfee Total Protection and Microsoft Windows Live OneCare.

Has Symantec finally listened and provided a security package that uses a minimal amount of system resources? Only more reviews will tell, this appears to be a direct competitor to Windows OneCare.

Norton 360 uses Norton Antivirus' engine, check here for detection rate tests.


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For hot deals on this and other security products, see the antivirus & firewall hot deals thread.

 

[NYHoustonman]

I wish them nothing but the worst.

 

[John]

I'm no much of a suite person, but I am going to try N360 out on one of my office workstations to see what all of the hype is about.

NYHoustonman, NAV2007 and Corp 10.1 / .2 are excellent AV's with little bloat. Symantec is really trying to improve some of their products and I applaud their efforts.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: John
I'm no much of a suite person, but I am going to try N360 out on one of my office workstations to see what all of the hype is about.

Same here, except I think I am going to try to install it on a virtual machine (as soon as I get ahold of a trial version), that should be interesting....

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: John
I'm no much of a suite person, but I am going to try N360 out on one of my office workstations to see what all of the hype is about.

NYHoustonman, NAV2007 and Corp 10.1 / .2 are excellent AV's with little bloat. Symantec is really trying to improve some of their products and I applaud their efforts.

I agree 100%!

 

[NYHoustonman]

Originally posted by: John
I'm no much of a suite person, but I am going to try N360 out on one of my office workstations to see what all of the hype is about.

NYHoustonman, NAV2007 and Corp 10.1 / .2 are excellent AV's with little bloat. Symantec is really trying to improve some of their products and I applaud their efforts.

If they didn't limit the number of times you can install with a given key (NOT the number of simultaneous installs, but the total times the software is activated) to some BS number (~3), I would be fine with them. But my copy of NIS 2007 is USELESS because I had to reactivate when I installed Vista.

Symantec can go screw.

 

[Smilin]

The good: Norton 360 is mercifully light on system resources; it's intuitive, covers most of the bases that a comprehensive security-and-performance tool should, and includes free online storage.

Light on system resources eh? Tell that to the other drivers sharing stack space. Norton has always been awful about this. Hopefully they've corrected this now so we won't be getting a stack of memory dumps from customers.

 

[0roo0roo]

name made me think it was for the xbox

 

[Schadenfroh]

Trial is up

Any idea if it is legal to install two copies of my OEM windows license on the same PC (one in virtual machine, one on the actual system)?

 

[shortylickens]

That would mean a lot if I didnt think Cnet was completely full of crap.

 

[corkyg]

Two huge negatives.

#1 - Symantec
#2 - Suites

 

[nippyjun]

Has anyone that has beta tested Norton 360 gotten the $30 off code in their email yet?

 

[Schadenfroh]

Outpost has it for $20, here are some other deals:
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/message...32&highlight_key=y&keyword1=norton+360
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/message...46&highlight_key=y&keyword1=norton+360

 

[nippyjun]

Does anyone who has this tried the addon pack yet?

 

[QueBert]

Vista sucks + Norton sucks, sounds like a marriage made in heaven. I only ran Vista during Beta and it was very brief, and I haven't touched any Norton crap for ages, but neither get any better. You can just pretty much write off products from either without too much worry about being wrong.

therefore I nominate Norton360 for crappy new product of the year without even reading about it...

 

[Schadenfroh]

Put Norton 360 on my laptop to test out (screen on it is dead, so I am going to RMA it next week anyway), the thing only uses about 30mb of memory... not bad for a security suite (firewall / antivirus / etc).

 

[dakata24]

what's the consensus on Norton 360? Is it a decent security suite to use on a home pc? I just built a new rig that needs some protection. In the past, i've used the Comcast Mcafee suite as well as the Yahoo DSL Computer Associates suite.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: dakata24
what's the consensus on Norton 360? Is it a decent security suite to use on a home pc? I just built a new rig that needs some protection. In the past, i've used the Comcast Mcafee suite as well as the Yahoo DSL Computer Associates suite.

This thing blows Mcafee security suite out of the water and IMO, Norton 360 is what Microsoft One Care should have been. This is probably the best security solution for the average user (IE, nongurus or people who do not want to be bothered with configuring and managing their security products).

But, I am sticking with my running recommendation of Kaspersky products for nonpower users (although I currently suggest that one uses the trial version before buying, due to possible issues that may arrise)



Norton a new norton 360 deal is up (thanks to flexy):
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...y=y&keyword1=antivirus

 

[Noema]

Originally posted by: corkyg
Two huge negatives.

#1 - Symantec
#2 - Suites

 

[Schadenfroh]

Well, my Norton 360 trial is up on my laptop and I must say that I am sad to see it go. If a free after MiR deal comes up, I will probably jump on it in order to switch some of my friends / family over from other (more difficult to use) security products. This is by far the best Symantec home user (IE Non Symantec Corporate) security product that I have used in a long time and the online backup service is very nice. I would defiantly recommend it to people who are setting up computers for people that are not techs.

Originally posted by: Noema

Originally posted by: corkyg
Two huge negatives.

#1 - Symantec

Try to keep an open mind. Ghost, PartitionMagic, and Symantec's corporate antivirus are all top notch.



By the way, if anyone wants info of the processes that are spawned and the ram usage, let me know. I saved all of that info on my laptop.

 

[bsobel]

Has Symantec finally listened and provided a security package that uses a minimal amount of system resources?

Guys, I can honestly say that feedback from folks here on AT had a direct impact on this. 2007 was remarkably lighter than 2006, and 2008 is a good improvement over 2007. We got and deserved a lot of crap for the 2005/2006 versions, but I'm very pleased by what we've gotten the team back to.

 

[bsobel]

If they didn't limit the number of times you can install with a given key (NOT the number of simultaneous installs, but the total times the software is activated) to some BS number (~3), I would be fine with them. But my copy of NIS 2007 is USELESS because I had to reactivate when I installed Vista. Symantec can go screw.

That is incorrect. Much like windows acitvation, after 3 installs you'll need to call in, but the product certainly isn't useless. If that wasn't your experience, please let me know and I'll walk you thru support myself if I have to (as most people in the forum know, I'm a chief architect at Symantec)

Bill

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Smilin
<blockquote>quote:
The good: Norton 360 is mercifully light on system resources; it's intuitive, covers most of the bases that a comprehensive security-and-performance tool should, and includes free online storage.</blockquote>

Light on system resources eh? Tell that to the other drivers sharing stack space. Norton has always been awful about this. Hopefully they've corrected this now so we won't be getting a stack of memory dumps from customers.

Smilin, we were ALWAYS In the stack trace by nature of the layered driver model. We were never high on stack usage, we used our own stack (something that gave Dave fits). If you have any outstanding issue let me know, I had lunch with the guys you'd want to talk to yesterday...

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: QueBert
Vista sucks + Norton sucks, sounds like a marriage made in heaven. I only ran Vista during Beta and it was very brief, and I haven't touched any Norton crap for ages, but neither get any better. You can just pretty much write off products from either without too much worry about being wrong.

therefore I nominate Norton360 for crappy new product of the year without even reading about it...

:roll: You admit you've not run either the OS or the product, yet you basically thread crap but posting how bad both are. Feel free to add to the thread, but try to add something usefull next time.

 

[scoobyx13x]

I have fond memories of using BE and Norton Commander back in the day. It made me very sad to see the Norton products turn into bloatware.

I am glad that to see that they are turning around.