Norton Protection Blog

Re: Microsoft Security Essentials: “Reruns” Aren’t Just for TV Anymore

chaz_001 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:27:01 GMT

This is a rather desperate blog by Norton.

Norton have always produced bloated software that slows a PC down considerably and when a free product comes along they will always want to feed the fear, uncertainty and doubt into peoples minds. That is the whole basis of antivirus/internet security software business is to feed that seed of doubt. What will help alot of people is to educate on how viruses spread and how PC's get infected. Once you apply some basic understanding and not to trust everything that arrives on your computer then you are in a good position. The Windows 7 firewall is more than adequate - you don't need a third party program unless you are perhaps wanting to control your PC's security a different way.

Yes, MSE doesn't have as many features as Norton AV BUT test results have shown it works and works very well. I notice the above blog refers to the older OneCare and beta version of MSE. Both of these are outdated now and are widely regarded as inferior to the official MSE release.

Will I spend money on Symantec's products? You have got to be joking!

Another reason why Norton would do a blog like this is because they feel threatened and want to keep people buying there products!

Re: Microsoft Security Essentials: “Reruns” Aren’t Just for TV Anymore

EricHilton1987 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:43:55 GMT

Well, I hate to sound like a "ReRun" but I to find it dissapointing to see Symantec blast Microsoft just to attempt to scare potential MSE users to chose Norton.

I love Norton products and currently I am subscribed to many of your products so I am not here to bash you.

Some computer users simply do not have the money to purchase a high end product like Norton and it is unfair make them feel as though there decsion not to shell out 40-100 bucks is a loser one.

Another group of PC users are not knowledgable to know the difference in Free and Paid and do not know difference in your product and the free ones. Taking advantage of these novice users is very cowardly.

For once i'd like to see you say something nice about the competition.. I dont know about others but that tends to make me see you in a better light and might persuade me into purchasing your product over the other guys.

As a PC user, I welcome the competition. It is nice knowing that so many software vendors are pretty much forcing each other to out do there products.. I think symantec should happily welcome that as well.

Re: Microsoft Security Essentials: “Reruns” Aren’t Just for TV Anymore

svtcontour — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:18:53 GMT

Wow dissapointing - Symantec playing childish games....

So far from recent testing with infected machines, I find Microsofts latest antivirus to be the best I've used. Its managed to clean machines that all others have failed at. I'm going with MS.

Re: Norton Utilities Premier – New!

ProTruckDriver — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:04:52 GMT

Looks like a Great Package for your computer, I like it !

Re: SONAR 2

ProTruckDriver — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:50:15 GMT

Good video that explains what Norton SONAR does. More protection for your computer. Norton is looking out for us. Keep up the excellent work.

Re: Norton SafeWeb - increasing online comfort and confidence

ProTruckDriver — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:36:52 GMT

Great video and explanation on Norton Safeweb. It looks like a lot of viewers are taking advantage of Safeweb by putting in their reviews of websites. Keep up the Excellent work Norton.

Re: Norton Utilities Premier – New!

PapauZ — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:35:32 GMT

Funbeta: As I see, this is the same as NU14, only with Premier you get a Norton Online Backup access for 1 year. So it is two programs in one box, like by us (Hungary) previously the NIS 2009 premier where you got NIS09 and NSW14 Basic together.

Re: Norton Utilities Premier – New!

funbeta — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:39:17 GMT

I know what is now the version:

Version 14.5.0.116

Re: Norton Utilities Premier – New!

Phil_D — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:00:14 GMT

That looks like a winning combination!

Re: Norton Utilities Premier – New!

Yaso_Kuuhl — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:03:04 GMT

Spiffy ;-D

Re: Cybercrime News: Conficker is Spamming, Weak Economy Drives Crime, Why We Click on Spam and More

mdturner — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:00:29 GMT

The article is interesting and contains some valid points but users are unlikely to change "bad habits" when using their PCs. That fact is a comfort to the cyber criminals who constantly manage to fool "intelligent" users with very simple scams.

Re: Norton Utilities Premier – New!

silverhawk — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:34:05 GMT

Wow nice package..great looks.

Re: Norton Utilities Premier – New!

mdturner — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:07:42 GMT

The Web Site doesn't seem to show a version for this.

Re: Norton Utilities Premier – New!

funbeta — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:39:02 GMT

But just a question what is the version of this product?

What same as the version 14 or it is now version 15?

Re: Norton Utilities Premier – New!

funbeta — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:35:47 GMT

Glad to see also.

Re: Norton Utilities Premier – New!

mdturner — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:33:33 GMT

Nice to see a great package available on the market bundling 2 excellent products together..

Norton Utilities Premier – New!

robertreynolds — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:24:18 GMT

Over time, once-zippy computers can start to lag, getting bogged down with unnecessary programs, too many temporary files, broken registry keys and all sorts of other digital gunk. Today we're announcing the newest weapon in the fight against PC sluggishness and data loss.

Re: Anybody need PC help?

integral — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:32:00 GMT

Oh, Thanks for this post guys, I always need some help with my old old PC )
Решение контрольных работ по высшей математике.

Re: Macworld 2009

integral — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:26:18 GMT

Yes , I Was there. And it was wery interesting for me :)
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Re: Microsoft Security Essentials: “Reruns” Aren’t Just for TV Anymore

BrandonLive — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:38:31 GMT

The content of the MS press release you link to is completely counter to the claim you made in linking to it. Did you expect your readers to not check the source that *you provided*?

As the release indicates, MSE is based on Microsoft's ForeFront enterprise security technology.

Dennis Technology Lab seems to be a dubious source, with no indication anywhere on the web that such a lab even exists outside of Symantec forums. If it is real, could you please provide a link to their website? Neither Google nor Bing seems to know of one.

Every review of MSE that I can find seems to dispute your claims. For example:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/09/stress_testing_microsofts_free.html