My new messages are below each blue section.
Subscription? I have a license to use it and it does not count down days. I expect it to work forever or at least as long as I stay customer at my current ISP.
Now that you told us about your ISP provided product, I fully understand why uou do not have days left showing - as I am a Comcast customer also and they provide a clone of N 360 for free as long as I am a customer. Hopwever they do have regular upgrades - such as the one we just went thru from version 5 (whihc was a 2011 product to version 6 (the 2012 product). I find it difficult to believe that your ISP has left you on the older version that long. I agree with the statements by SOJ in regards to the auto renewals and also with kliebor about checking for newer versions with your ISP.
My ISP renews the program every year. Usually the new version becomes available in November or December. I have been offered NIS 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 but I skipped all of them. Earlier years I have had NIS 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. All versions except 2003 were offered by my ISP.
Symantec will of course not offer customer support after some point, and after many years they will probably stop releasing new virus definitions. But they can't disable NIS on my PC. Microsoft is not shutting down XP on my PC, and XP is much older. They don't even shut down Windows 95 if anyone still uses it.
You would be surprised what can happen to an activation that has to be cross-checked between your ISP's server data base and Norton's server data base. Been there, done that with Comcast users and everytime had to get a Norton emplyee invovled to check the data bases and make necessary corrections so the customer could get their Norton product reactivated.
What happens if they disable it? No more daily updating? Or it all becomes completely useless and offer zero protection of any kind? The latter sounds like mafia style of business and I hope they don't do that.
I think Safe Web sounds familiar but it could be that I've seen it on another computer. I don't think I have it on my PC. NIS 2007 do have anti-phising but maybe Safe Web is something else.
You really need to check out the abilities of the later versions of NIS, you can google Norton Internet Security 2012 and see the lastest capabilities. I won't go into the improvemtns here.
I have tried a new PC with NIS 2012 on it. That could be where I maybe saw Safe Web. I was satisfied with how little NIS 2012 seemed to slow down the PC, but part of the reason was it was a new PC. My own PC is 10 years old and it struggles with NIS.
NIS 2012 is maybe perfect in most ways, but it doesn't have ad-block. I can not use the Internet without it because all ads are animated these days. I can not read when something moves. To me it is equally important as the firewall.
OT: I think it's very difficult to quote a post on this forum. I had to manually copy and paste.
In order to quote a post, select the post you want to quote and hit Reply on that post. when the Reply to Message screen opens, Select QUOTE and the message shold be quoted in the new reply box.
I tried that, but when I click "Quote" I get forwarded to an error page with a "An Unexpected Error has occurred." message. It happens evey time. So I still have to copy and paste. Maybe the forum doesn't like Opera. 
