Norton Anti Virus

[Thomas Jones]

Will Norton Anti Virus 2007 work with Vista?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Norton AntiVirus 2007 System Requirements:
http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/sysreq.jsp?pcid=is&pvid=nav2007--Carey FrischMicrosoft MVPWindows - Shell/User-----------------------------------------------------------------------------"Thomas Jones" wrote:Will Norton Anti Virus 2007 work with Vista?

 

[JP]

Yes - and you can get a Trialware version to test it, if you like.

http://shop.symantecstore.com/store...ntTheme/ThemeID.106300/pbPage.Trialware_en_US

 

[Richard Urban]

That is a poor answer concerning anything from Symantec/Norton.

You don't place anything from them on your computer unless you KNOW for
certain that it is 100% compatible. Even if it is, you likely can now
uninstall it completely with their dedicated - downloadable uninstaller.

Hell, they may as well tell you to format your drive to get rid of
Systemworks..


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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

Here's paart of what Symantec announced the other day:

Compatibility Updates

Products purchased under our service plans, such as Norton Antivirus
2006 and Norton Antivirus 2007, are eligible for Microsoft® Windows
Vista™ compatibility update subject to production release of the
Windows Vista operating system within the service period. Users must
have a valid subscription to be eligible for the Windows Vista
compatible update.

Norton products eligible for free compatibility updates for Windows
Vista™


Product Availability Date — Download


Norton Internet Security™ 2006/2007 -- January 22, 2007

Norton AntiVirus™ 2006/2007 -- January 22, 2007

Norton Confidential™ -- February 4, 2007

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http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/themes/vista/compatibility.jsph

is the link that works for me.

Note that if you have a licenced, unexpired copy of Norton 2007 you
should use the key from it to activate the updated "trial" version and
that converts it to a real version using your existing expiry date.

I made the mistake of using the Key that Symentec emailed to me when my
copy did not pick up the existing key (I was installing it on XP Pro
first since I have Norton 360 BETA on my VISTA version). That gave my
Subscription expired warnings and refusal to Live update.

If this happens to you use this link to get the remedy:

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/custserv.nsf/docid/200610091149434
6?
Open&src=sub&docid=2004__011514110746&nsf=custserv.nsf&view=docid&pid=2
004021308241946&pkb=custserv

If that does not work as a live link try pasting all the bits into the
address box.

 

[John Whitworth]

Will Norton Anti Virus 2007 work with Vista?

From experience, Norton doesn't work well with any version of
Windows...unless you want your machine to behave like it's five years older
than it really is! It makes the machine run like treacle, and is full of
'safeguards' that can't be disabled...like the start-up checking, which
takes ages.

Unless Norton AV 2007 is a very different beast from Norton SystemWorks 2006
of course. But then again I found out the hard way there, because I hoped
that SW 2006 was a very different beast from Norton Internet Security 2003.
And it wasn't! :-(

Maybe it does run OK if you only have the one product...but I'll always be
sceptical of Symantec now!

JW

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

Read on .....

Norton products eligible for free compatibility updates for Windows 
Vista™ 

Product Availability Date — Download 

Norton Internet Security™ 2006/2007 -- January 22, 2007 <----

Norton AntiVirus™ 2006/2007 -- January 22, 2007 <----

Norton Confidential™ -- February 4, 2007

<g>

And there's a public BETA of Norton/Symantec 360 .....

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

Norton Systemworks that I loved back in WIN95 days is pretty well a
dead loss these days IMO. I haven't used it since early WIN98.

The new Public BETA Norton 360 is Norton System Works on steroids with
in effect NAV and GHOST (Backup and Restore) included. I'm running it
at present on VISTA Business and it does not seem to hit performance
anything like NIS/NAV2006 onwards did BUT it duplicates a lot of what
is already in VISTA with the backup/restore utility, antivirus (Is that
in Defender or not?) phishing firewall etc features.

 

[R. McCarty]

Symantec/Norton products are now so complicated, they offer
an "Expert" (Remote Assistance) to help users install/configure it.
http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/support/premium_installation.jsp
Another brilliant "Conference Room" idea from Symantec.

 

[Jane C]

Hugh, Defender is a malware scanner only, not antivirus.

 

[JP]

Installed fine for me on Vista Ultimate RTM. I have been using NAV
for years and have had very few problems with it.

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

I thought so -- so really AV is about all one needs.

I like the way that Norton AntiSpam works but I see that there is a
Junk mail sort in Windows Mail. I haven't set it up with an email
address yet.

Do you know if Message Rules in Windows Mail sorts Incoming and Sent
mail? In OE6 and before it only sorts Incoming unless you run a manual
sort, which is inconvenient.