Norton Internet Security / Norton AntiVirus

[Tomwa]

I have used many many AV/AS products in my time on the computer, I won't settle on one unless I've checked AV-Comparitves, AV-Test, and the VB100 to ensure their scanning abilities and tested Free Trials on my own. I've used AV's from Panda, Kaspersky, Avira, Avast, Microsoft, G-Data, Bitdefender, Threatfire (Still in use, but I'm not sure if I'll remain using it), DefenseWall HIPS (I can no longer use because I switched to 64bit windows pheh), ect.

However, I remember way back when (Quite a few years ago) when I last tried a Symantec product. It came pre-installed on my machine and was so terrible that removing it was the first thing I did upon setup. I ended up buying a new windows XP disc to get one without the junk from Symantec. However, as I've been looking through the Comparitives I noticed NIS/NAV 2011 did astoundingly well. I am presently using Avira's latest Premium suite (I've been using Avira for over a year and a half now) but they continue to fail at resolving the problems that plague me. Therefore, I'm considering switching to Norton. Essentially I'd like to know what problems (If any) you are experiencing. I also would like to know if there's a free trial available with these products that does NOT demand my billing/credit card information before I even accept the product as I'd much rather try the product and whipe windows again than end up with an unstable product.

Edit: Some of my setup information.

CPU: Core i7 920 @ 4.3Ghz

GFX: ATI Radeon 5870

RAM: 6 GBs DDR3 2200Mhz

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64

You may begin.

[swarnava]

you can choose our trial product first..here are

http://us.norton.com/downloads/trialsoftware/index.jsp

we have 3 product for home user..NIS/NAV and Norton 360

you can check the compare between those version here

http://us.norton.com/products/charts/comparison.jsp?pcid=mp

download whatever suite for you..

never forget to post problem here..we are here 24x7 to solve your problem :)

[DaveH]

Thats absolutly not the link you want, that one will ask for a credit card and automatically charge you unless you cancell.

Give me a minute and I'll find a direct link if nobody beats me to it.

Dave

[Tomwa]

Been digging around your site and I do NOT want the Norton 360 suite it seems to me most "PC Tuneup software" are 1 click paths to destruction. I fine tune my own internet, system, software and harware settings. I've read a little bit about the NIS on a few sites but I haven't seen much about the Firewall which is obviously an important part of "Internet Security".

I'd appreciate a non credit/billing information trial link and any information on the Inbuilt firewall in NIS.

[DaveH]

Here is the link to download it without giving any info:

Norton Internet Security 2011

http://www.norton.com/nis11

[swarnava]

A personal firewall is an application which controls network traffic to and from a computer, permitting or denying communications based on a security policy.

A personal firewall differs from a conventional firewall in terms of scale. Personal firewalls are typically designed for use by end-users. As a result, a personal firewall will usually protect only the computer on which it is installed.

Many personal firewalls are able to control network traffic by prompting the user each time a connection is attempted and adapting security policy accordingly. Personal firewalls may also provide some level of intrusion detection, allowing the software to terminate or block connectivity where it suspects an intrusion is being attempted.

it is a very important feature of an antivirus

[Tomwa]

That was the most basic definition of a Firewall ever, but aside from that I wanded to know specific details about NIS's firewall. Port stealthing and blocking, Heuristics for connection behavior (To identify Flooding, port scans, ect.)

Thanks for the DL link btw.

[Tomwa]

35 mins into a clean windows installation and norton has entirely locked up and froze.

Only other thing I've installed is Firefox at this point. I installed the program, restarted, Updated, restarted, then it started up and has frozen in that faded-grey-no-response way that most windows programs do.

Why...?

Error: 3005,100

Occurs when opening settings.

Downloaded and ran the 5i64 file from here. http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/definitions/download/detail.jsp?gid=n95

We're off to a greeeat start.

[huwyngr Norton Fighter]

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Tomwa wrote:

35 mins into a clean windows installation and norton has entirely locked up and froze.

Only other thing I've installed is Firefox at this point. I installed the program, restarted, Updated, restarted, then it started up and has frozen in that faded-grey-no-response way that most windows programs do.

Why...?

Error: 3005,100

Occurs when opening settings.

Downloaded and ran the 5i64 file from here. http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/definitions/download/detail.jsp?gid=n95

We're off to a greeeat start.

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How did you remove any other security systems that you indicated you tested to get the feel of? What was the last one you had installed before installing NIS 2011.

Which of the several suggested URLs did you download NIS 2011 from?

Did you start the install using Run as Administrator? -- I've found this more troublefree.

[AllenM Norton Fighter]

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Tomwa wrote:

35 mins into a clean windows installation and norton has entirely locked up and froze.

Only other thing I've installed is Firefox at this point. I installed the program, restarted, Updated, restarted, then it started up and has frozen in that faded-grey-no-response way that most windows programs do.

Why...?

Error: 3005,100

Occurs when opening settings.

Downloaded and ran the 5i64 file from here. http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/definitions/download/detail.jsp?gid=n95

We're off to a greeeat start.

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Hi Tomwa,

Welcome to the Norton Community. By "clean windows installation" do you mean that you actually reinstalled Windows itself so that no other 3rd party software in installed?

If so then this should be fine.

But since you mentioned you were using Threatfire I want to make sure. Is this still installed? If so, then you need to uninstall it AND run the Threatfire removal tool to ensure that all remnants are gone before installing NIS.

You can find the Threatfire removal tool here.

Now if you did reinstall Windows itself did you first download and install all Windows updates? NIS like many software out there has dependancies on Windows components such as libraries and so forth. So please make sure you have downloaded and installed all Windows updates before installing NIS.

If you either still had Threatfire installed or Windows updates were not completed at the time you installed NIS, then after removing Threatfire and/or doing the Windows updates you need to uninstall and install NIS again.

Also, after installing NIS did you run live update repeatedly (rebooting as requested) until it reported there are no more updates? What version of NIS do you have? You can find this from Support > About and the number will start with either 18.1 or 18.5.

It sounds as if you downloaded antivirus definitions through Intelligent updater which is not the correct way since it will be missing many other definitions and program updates. It is absolutely essential to run live update after install as I mentioned above.

Best wishes.

Allen