Norton products - don't use with Windows??

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This seems a bit puzzling, not sure of the reasons for the
recommendation to stay away from Norton...

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(David Coursey, ZDNet)---After publishing last Monday's column, which
detailed my most recent trip to Windows hell, I received an e-mail
from Susan Bradley. In her spare time, she answers user questions as
a tech support volunteer in the Microsoft MVP program.

Susan's e-mail was short and to the point:

Your three mistakes are:

1. Loading up a Norton product. I refuse to run any Norton product
on any Windows product.

2. Not checking out the Event Viewer and then going to EventID.Net

3. Buying XP Home

The complete article:
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2914499,00.html>
 
Steve,
There must jillions using Norton products with Windows including me and most
others I know. Their Anti-Virus Program is probably the most popular and
best known among Windows users. Don't pay any attention to it.
Gene
 
People tend to dislike products based on personal experience, whether that
experienced is based on any sort of statistical probability or is just a
one-time glitch. Thus you find all sorts of people who hate Fords, Chevy's,
whatever, just because at some point they got a lemon.

I've used Norton's antivirus products for years without any problems. As far
as the rest of it, I've never been fond of any of the products that purport
to clean registries or magically fix errors, speed up the computer, keep it
from crashing, etc. Crash Guard was, in my opinion, a particularly nasty
product, but that doesn't keep me from using their antivirus products.

As for home vs. pro, I've got pro on all the computers that don't run server
products, but if someone doesn't need what pro has, home is perfectly fine.
I sell a lot of it, because a lot of my customers have ONE computer and
don't need the networking or security stuff.
 
This seems a bit puzzling, not sure of the reasons for the
recommendation to stay away from Norton...
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(David Coursey, ZDNet)---After publishing last Monday's column, which
detailed my most recent trip to Windows hell, I received an e-mail
from Susan Bradley. In her spare time, she answers user questions as
a tech support volunteer in the Microsoft MVP program.
Susan's e-mail was short and to the point:
Your three mistakes are:
1. Loading up a Norton product. I refuse to run any Norton product
on any Windows product.
2. Not checking out the Event Viewer and then going to EventID.Net
3. Buying XP Home

Steve:

I run various Norton/Symantec products on Win9x thru Win2k3 server w/o
problems.

IMO, David Coursey has written some strange articles lately.

Buying XP Home is not necessarily a bad decision, and IMO most MVP are not
credible on all subjects.
 
The article also said that she maintained only 20 computers! Hell, I
maintain hundreds!. How does that give her expertise?

Hundreds of thousands have used Symantec products over the years without any
problems. Then there are those who DO have problems.

Do you think it could be that their machines are configured incorrectly, or
that they are just too lazy to learn to use the product correctly?
 
Hi Steve - Well, the use or not of Norton/Symantec products has fervent
adherents on both sides, and I won't get into it except to note two things.
First, I only allow Norton/Symantec products on my machines for testing
after which I totally remove them using Total Uninstall. Second, the reason
for this: While they are often very good with respect to their particular
design functionality (their virus "fixers" are first class, for example),
they "don't play well with others", especially with regard to installs of
new software, and very particularly with respect to system software. See
here, for example: http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers.htm#preinstall
I would strongly recommend that, if you choose to use them, you always turn
off/disable or uninstall them (particularly System Doctor, NAV and NIS)
prior to doing any installs, particularly of system software.

--
Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



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Steve said:
This seems a bit puzzling, not sure of the reasons for the
recommendation to stay away from Norton...

=========================


(David Coursey, ZDNet)---After publishing last Monday's column, which
detailed my most recent trip to Windows hell, I received an e-mail
from Susan Bradley. In her spare time, she answers user questions as
a tech support volunteer in the Microsoft MVP program.

Susan's e-mail was short and to the point:

Your three mistakes are:

1. Loading up a Norton product. I refuse to run any Norton product
on any Windows product.

2. Not checking out the Event Viewer and then going to EventID.Net

3. Buying XP Home

The complete article:
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2914499,00.html>
Click to expand...

As with any product line, some are great, some are useful for the specific
need, some don't work at all. The bottom line is there is not a single
software product that doesn't have it's backers and dissenters. My
experience with Symantec products has been very positive, as opposed to my
experience with the MacAfee product line exactly the opposite. When
scutizinizing a product, take the emotional factor out of the equation and
look at the physical realities.
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Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
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Well said.

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Regards
(-: Gary Hegan :-)




Michael Stevens said:
As with any product line, some are great, some are useful for the specific
need, some don't work at all. The bottom line is there is not a single
software product that doesn't have it's backers and dissenters. My
experience with Symantec products has been very positive, as opposed to my
experience with the MacAfee product line exactly the opposite. When
scutizinizing a product, take the emotional factor out of the equation and
look at the physical realities.
--

Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
(e-mail address removed)
http://michaelstevenstech.com
For a better newsgroup experience. Setup a newsreader.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm
Click to expand...
 
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